4 ms·
Yep, Altavista. Before writing that blog post I verified all the facts at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_
by jitbit 15y ago
Yep, Altavista. Before writing that blog post I verified all the facts at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo! (image hosting is Flickr, blog/social platform is Yahoo-360, other services include Yahoo Groups, Yahoo messenger, GeoCities page hosting, Yahoo Mail, Overture (paid search ads) and other services.
- shortformblog 15y agoBut … wait. They didn't acquire Altavista until 2003, when it was already dead in the water.
- damian2000 15y agoyeah that's what I thought - it seems like they were fairly close to Yahoo before 2003 though ... providing their search results from 1996.
- jitbit 15y agoYep, 2003, my bad... But Yahoo still dominated the search anyways. According to December 1999 stats they had 56% market share (while nearest competitor - Excite - had 11%, Google was <1%)
- sanxiyn 15y agoYahoo! Groups was awesome. One of the best acquisitions they made. Originally written in Python in 1997.