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What happened to Altavista?
- ashwinl 19y agohere's another link: http://www.tedtalks.com/2006/02/webwhat_happene.html http://www.tedtalks.com/2006/02/webwhat_happene.html
- boredguy8 19y agoI don't know how this article made it up so high, but Google didn't beat AltaVista, it was gone long before that. Inktomi, which powered Yahoo! and HotBot's search for quite some time, displaced AltaVista primarily because it distributed searches across a network for faster results. Google, of course, displaced Inktomi with an entirely different algorithm.
- ks 19y agoAnother example is www.alltheweb.com. They were very good, but I switched to Google because it was easier to type :-) If they had a more catchy name and better PR they could have been in the position that Google is now.