AltaVista

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.