Altavista search engine news

A blast from the past! Altavista was one of the first popular web search engines, launched in 1995 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Here are some news articles and updates about Altavista:

Launch and Early Success

• "Altavista: The Search Engine That's Got Everyone Talking" (Wired, June 1995)
• "Altavista: The Web's First Search Engine" (PC Magazine, July 1995)

Competition and Challenges

• "Yahoo! and Altavista: The Battle for Search Supremacy" (Forbes, August 1996)
• "Altavista's Search Engine Struggles to Keep Up with Competition" (The New York Times, October 1997)

Acquisition and Decline

• "Compaq Acquires Altavista for $3.3 Billion" (The Wall Street Journal, October 1998)
• "Altavista's Search Engine Loses Ground to Google" (The Washington Post, August 2000)
• "Altavista to Shut Down Search Engine" (CNET, November 2003)

Legacy and Impact

• "The Rise and Fall of Altavista: A Search Engine Pioneer" (The Verge, August 2015)
• "Altavista: The Search Engine That Changed the Web" (TechCrunch, June 2019)

Some interesting facts about Altavista:

• Altavista was the first search engine to index the entire web, with over 10 million pages indexed at its peak.
• Altavista was known for its fast search results and its ability to search for specific phrases.
• Altavista was acquired by Compaq in 1998 and later by Yahoo! in 2003.
• Altavista's search engine was eventually shut down in 2003, but its legacy lives on as a pioneer in the search engine industry.

I hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane!