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Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death

Posted by timothy on from the pour-your-electronic-version-of-a-40 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Remember AltaVista from the late '90s? Yahoo is finally pulling life support and letting Altavista die a noble death after over 15 years of hard service." You can only take so many years of being a running gag.

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  1. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I won't believe it until Netcraft confirms it

    1. Re:Obligatory by hairyfeet · · Score: 5, Funny

      So let me get this straight, Yahoo owns Altavista and uses Bing for a back end, took down Altavista only to put it back up with a yahoo back end, that is really being back ended by Bing?

      Damn no wonder they pulled the plug, hell the ping times must have been awful!

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  2. at least we still have Dogpile and Ask Jeeves by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'll never make me use Google!

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    1. Re:at least we still have Dogpile and Ask Jeeves by fermion · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't forget ask.com which is automatically installed with every Java update. If oracle supports it, and it works well with IE, it must be good.

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  3. Running gag? by Molt · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you can only take so many years of being a running gag then can we look forward to Yahoo! pulling the plug on itself?

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  4. Arnie Says... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 1, Funny

    Alta la vista Baby!

    Or something like that...

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  5. Re:Back in the Days of Kerosene Internet by TClevenger · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Warez do you want to go today?"

  6. Asta Lavista by future+assassin · · Score: 4, Funny

    baby.

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  7. Re:AltaVista by MightyMartian · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've heard Larry Page eats babies and drinks the blood of castrated goats. It must be true because Google lies so much.

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  8. Re:AltaVista by Keen+Anthony · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, that is true. I found it through one of the expert guides at The Mining Company.