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AltaVista

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AltaVista

(AltaVista Company, Palo Alto, CA, www.altavista.com) The first search engine to index every word on a page and provide a retrieval system to extract relevant information. Developed by Digital's Research Labs in Palo Alto in 1995, the AltaVista search engine is available in more than 25 languages in a variety of versions. In 2003, AltaVista was acquired by Overture. See Web search engines and Overture.



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AltaVista Experiences More Than a 150% Increase in the Past Year
"With our launch of the largest multimedia resource on the Web, AltaVista is once again raising the standard for Internet users' search experience," said Jim Barnett, president of Web search at Overture.
AltaVista Company, a leading global provider of search services and a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc.
 
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