AltaVista Truncation, Proximity Improved
AltaVista’s wild card or truncation symbol, the * or asterisk, has expanded so that it covers an unlimited number of characters. It used to only represent 0-5 extra characters and a double asterisk...
View ArticleAltaVista Bought by Overture
The advertising search engine Overture announced plans to acquire AltaVista. It’s another interesting acquisition, although there are scant details on the long-term future of AltaVista. At least...
View ArticleOverture Closes on AltaVista Deal
Overture announces that it has wrapped up the deal to purchase AltaVista. It will be interesting to see what comes from the following quote: “Overture plans to develop a common platform for its new Web...
View ArticleNow FAST Gets AltaVista Enterprise from Overture
On top of all the continuing confusion of acquisitions and ownerships changes in the search engine field, comes this one. Earlier this year Overture bought up AltaVista and the FAST Web Search business...
View ArticleAltaVista Announces Larger Multimedia Databases
AltaVista announces larger image, audio, and video databases. Their press release trumpets “AltaVista’s Multimedia Index Becomes World’s Largest” and claims “540 million comprehensive, high-quality...
View ArticleYahoo! Grabs Overture (and AlltheWeb and AltaVista)
Yahoo! announces today that they are acquiring Overture, known for its highly profitable ads, ranked by the highest bidder. And Overture earlier this year bought up AltaVista and AlltheWeb. At a price...
View ArticleAltaVista Toolbar Launches with Translation
This season seems to be the summer of toolbars. HotBot, Infospace, and Ask Jeeves all launch toolbars. Lycos launches its Sidesearch. Google upgrades its toolbar. So now its AltaVista’s turn, and the...
View ArticleYahoo! Completes Overture Acquisition
Now AltaVista, AlltheWeb, Inktomi, and Overture are all owned by Yahoo! The press release quotes CEO Terry Semel, “We are excited to combine the two companies to build the largest position in the...
View ArticleSome Shared Databases at AlltheWeb and AltaVista
AlltheWeb and AltaVista are now owned by Yahoo! when they bought Overture. For now, AltaVista and AlltheWeb continue to be available at their historic locations and have separate databases for their...
View ArticleVenerable AltaVista Dies
After last week’s news of the demise of AlltheWeb, I suppose I should not be too surprised that the same has now happened at AltaVista. But it is a real loss. The AltaVista Web database has been...
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