A long time ago, in the mid-to-late 1990s, AltaVista was a major search engine, but with the rise of Google its popularity slid, eventually becoming irrelevant to most users. Back then, I never missed ...

NEW YORK - Once upon a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more. On Monday, its owner Yahoo Inc. sent AltaVista.com to the Internet graveyard to rest alongside ...

As the world today mostly recognizes Google as a verb for search engines, it is difficult to remember a time before Google was created. However, the World Wide Web is full of search engines that time ...

Storage vendor EMC and CMGI, which owns several Internet businesses, Monday announced they would cooperate to integrate EMC’s storage technology with CMGI’s software for searching on the Web. EMC and ...

Search engine company AltaVista Co. is refocusing on its core search business and will end its free AltaVista.com e-mail account service for about 200,000 U.S. customers on March 31. In an ...