A hail and farewell to AltaVista

[Blake]

This is what happens after a series of bumbling owners fail to keep a once terrific product relevant in a dynamic market: You get a cold PR send-off that doesn't even fill the screen.

"Please visit Yahoo! Search for all of your searching needs."

That's all Yahoo wrote Friday afternoon as it lumped in the news that it was killing off AltaVista on July 8 with word that it will also ax 11 other products that no longer matter to the company.

Jay Rossiter, the vice president in charge of platforms, said the moves will free Yahoo to streamline its efforts and thus "continue to focus on creating beautiful products that are essential to you every day."

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57591629-93/a-hail-and-farewell-to-altavista/
Credit: Charles Cooper

Sad to say but I used alta vista for literally years and simply forgot about it when I moved to google. I really think someone could bring it back if yahoo chose to sell it off but that's me.

 

[south]

av.com redirects to it, as once pointed out to my by Theo (Acro). Think they'd be stupid enough to let it expire?

 

[alien51]

Altavista is purely nostalgia. Running a search engine costs money. If it is not serving any business purpose, might as well shut it down to avoid the wallet bleeding.

With regards to the domain, it is too "brandable" to be of any meaning to anybody. I'm sure they'll just keep it as a souvenir just like Geocities.

 

[DNNabber.com]

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57591629-93/a-hail-and-farewell-to-altavista/
Credit: Charles Cooper

Sad to say but I used alta vista for literally years and simply forgot about it when I moved to google. I really think someone could bring it back if yahoo chose to sell it off but that's me.

It was my search engine in 1999 and 2000 but then...I know it sold for millions back in the early Aughts but just hasn't been relevant at all since 2001 or perhaps as late as early 2002.

av.com redirects to it, as once pointed out to my by Theo (Acro). Think they'd be stupid enough to let it expire?

No, never, not these days. Perhaps back when AltaVista was a search choice it could have happened but not now.



God Bless,
Marcia