AltaVista the most known
American searching system, that uses popularity among the users of the USA, Canada
and some countries of Europe. AltaVista was
worked out and start in a network at the beginning of December, 1995 at support
of the most powerful at that time calculable server of DEC Alpha. On the period
of the appearance AltaVista was the most rapid searching system that could
process millions of searching queries in a day.
The important innovation of
search engine of AltaVista was including of search of human language. Users
could print a searching phrase or question and get an intellectual answer.
In the first approaching
the worked out by a corporation AltaVista Technology AltaVista was sold Digital
Equipment Corporation. The known now searching system substantially improved by
the specialists of DEC became accessible to the users in November, 1995. In 1998 the
searching system back was bought by a corporation Compaq, that spent quite a
bit time and forces on the search of possibilities to do a profitable project
from AltaVista. Thus the address of the searching system remained former.
And a set in the address
line of AltaVista resulted in a hit on the web-site of company AltaVista
Technology. As a result, the fame of the searching system resulted in the
enormous inflow of visitors on a web-site AltaVista Technology and loss of
potential users the searching system. In the total, a domen back of search
engine of AltaVista was bought Compaq after 3,35 million dollars in August, 1998. In spite of it,
Compaq so not succeeded to be got income from the searching system.
Therefore in June, 1999 the
negotiations of Compaq and corporation CMGI began about forming of strategic
network alliance, within the framework of that AltaVista was sold CMGI. on it
was August, 19, 1999 announced acquisition by a corporation CMGI at Compaq of
83 percents of actions of AltaVista.
In February 2003 AltaVista
was bought Overture Services, Inc., that in July 2003 was purchased Yahoo!.
From May 2011 AltaVista passed to searching technology of Yahoo! at the use of
her catalogues and searching machine.
Gave one of first AltaVista
to the searching machine the short name, created a simple title page interface
without an advertisement and extraneous references.
Now official headquarters
of this searching system is in city Palo Alto,
that is located in neighbourhood Santa Klara, state California,
USA.
No comments:
Post a Comment