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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. Re:AltaVista by bonehead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, but it's not what it used to be.

    Back in the day, it was the best search engine out there. Used it dozens of times every day. Granted, that was back when "www.hp.com" was an invalid URL and you had to use "www.hp.boise.com" to get a printer driver, but still....

    Can't necessarily say I''m "sad" to see them go, but it does raise a little pang of nostalgia.....

  2. Re:bad link, evil link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    link works fine, you are just infected with the McAfee Virus

  3. Re:AltaVista by Z00L00K · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I stopped using Altavista when they nuked the "NEAR" keyword.

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