Do you ever visit AltaVista? AltaVista is a web search engine owned by Yahoo!. AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity declined with the rise of Google. Now, AltaVista also provides a free translation service, branded Babel Fish, which automatically translates text between several languages.
AltaVista was founded in 1995. AltaVista is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA. Paul Flaherty, Louis Monier, Michael Burrows, Jeffrey Black are the key people of AltaVista.
At launch, the service had two innovations which set it ahead of the other search engines; It used a fast, multi-threaded crawler (Scooter) which could cover many more Web pages than were believed to exist at the time and an efficient search running back-end on advanced hardware. The distinguishing feature of AltaVista was its minimalistic interface compared with other search engines of the time; a feature which was lost when it became a portal, but was regained when it refocused its efforts on its search function.
AltaVista's site was an immediate success. Traffic increased steadily from 300,000 hits on the first day to more than 80 million hits a day two years later. AltaVista itself became one of the top destinations on the web, and by 1997 would earn US$50 million in sponsorship revenue.
AltaVista became the exclusive provider of search results for Yahoo! in 1996. After several business transactions, AltaVista came back to Yahoo! in July 2003. But, in 2010, Yahoo! announced that it plans to discontinue AltaVista site.
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