Does Altavista Exist

U.S. AltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine.

Where is AltaVista now?

AltaVista, the Google of its day, is now to be gobbled up by Overture. It’s a famous name that’s seen better days. But AltaVista’s not the only major search player to have faded, as years have gone by.

When was AltaVista invented?

AltaVista is perhaps best known for its search technology. It provided the first full-text search service in the world when it was created in 1995 at the Palo Alto research laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).