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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 PrimeNumber · · Score: -1, Troll

    I heard Google also stole the pagerank technique from another search engine then wrote the paper to "look good" and have credibility. FFS Google has been caught lying so many times it baffles me why people still fall for their good guy, do no evil horseshit.