AltaVista
| AltaVista | |
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| http://altavista.digital.com/ | |
| description | Internet search engine |
| owner | Yahoo |
| Published | December 1995 |
| status | closed since July 8, 2013 |
AltaVista was a search engine for the internet . It emerged from a research project by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that was presented in late 1995. It was one of the first search engines with which one could carry out a full text search for relevant pages on the Internet. It was developed by Louis Monier , Joella Paquette and Paul Flaherty .
history
In December 1995 the AltaVista search service was launched under the URL http://altavista.dec.com and was the most famous full-text search engine next to HotBot until 1999, when Google took over this role . The basic principle of the ranking algorithm used by AltaVista was the evaluation of the meta tags on the HTML pages. At the same time, however, text fragments from the HTML pages were also indexed and used according to an internal logic to classify the links on a ranking position.
After the takeover of DEC by Compaq , AltaVista - then under altavista.com - became an independent company that tried for a while to be commercially successful as a web portal . Originally, the service primarily served as a technology demonstration for the efficiency of the DEC servers used for this purpose. AltaVista later specialized in searching again and gave up portal activities. However, the number of websites recorded in the search was much smaller than that of Google. In Germany there was a cooperation with the then influential search engine Fireball , which obtained non-German language search results from AltaVista.
In May 2000, AltaVista started another search engine under the name Raging Search ( http://www.raging.comor http://ragingsearch.altavista.com- today, redirected to the Yahoo service) in response to Google . This used the same database as the main search, but an algorithm based on Google. In addition, graphic advertising and the presentation of portal content were also dispensed with on the website. Six years after its start, in February 2003, the now ailing AltaVista Company was surprisingly taken over by Overture , a company that develops search technology and that has been owned by Yahoo Inc. since 2003.
It was first announced on December 16, 2010 via a published presentation that Yahoo would shut down the search service as part of restructuring measures. After all search queries from Altavista had been redirected to Yahoo Search since 2010, the service was finally discontinued on July 8, 2013.
services
Developed by AltaVista service Babel Fish was the first machine Internet translation service, which words, phrases or entire sites from different languages translate could.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The dying of web dinosaurs. orf.at, July 8, 2013, accessed July 8, 2013 .
- ^ [1] Raging Search: A New Search Engine by AltaVista
- ↑ Internet Archive : side view. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 10, 2000 ; accessed on February 20, 2018 .
- ↑ 'ORF.at' 'Yahoo closes social web offers' (accessed on December 17, 2010)
- ↑ Heise Online: Yahoo closes Altavista. Retrieved June 29, 2013 .