In the current world of search engines, less is more--and AltaVista is angling for both. The struggling company is trying to recapture its former glory as a search engine heavyweight with a newly ...

AltaVista's search goes on. At a time when upstart companies such as Google and GoTo.com have won the search spotlight, the Web search pioneer continues to grope its way through the dark night of the ...

AltaVista's search goes on. At a time when upstart companies such as Google and GoTo.com have won the search spotlight, the Web search pioneer continues to grope its way through the dark night of the ...

A long time ago, in the mid-to-late 1990s, AltaVista was a major search engine, but with the rise of Google its popularity slid, eventually becoming irrelevant to most users. Back then, I never missed ...

In the current world of search engines, less is more--and AltaVista is angling for both. The struggling company is trying to recapture its former glory as a search engine heavyweight with a newly ...

If you were going to compose a list of the ten greatest technology products ever, it would be a plausible contender. If you were compiling a list of the ten greatest Web services and didn’t include it ...

Before there were the Google, Bing, and Yahoo search engines, there was AltaVista. Launching in 1995, the search engine became wildly popular, but as Google launched and other big companies followed ...

NEW YORK – Once up on a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more. On Monday, its owner Yahoo Inc. sent AltaVista.com to the Internet graveyard to rest alongside order ...

The internet veteran AltaVista has been sold to marketing firm Overture for $140m. AltaVista was once the most visited search engine on the internet, but failed to keep up with rivals such as Yahoo ...

Pioneering search engine AltaVista is due to be shut down on 8 July. AltaVista was one of the first search engines to index significant amounts of web content and proved hugely popular before Google ...