Yahoo to shut down pioneering AltaVista search site

BBC News ^ | 1 July 2013 | Last updated at 07:19 ET

[BBB333]

The paranoid test:

“True or false, are the people following you trying to kill you?

[Ben Mugged]

Hail and farewell Altavista. Dr Darrel Thurmond was the chief developer and held doctorates in Theology, Linguistics and Computer Science. Graduated from MIT at 18 and suffered from Diabetes. He spoke 5 languages including Swahili and could solve calculus equations in his head but couldn’t win a game of tic-tac-toe.

[zeugma]

altavista was pretty good back in the day. IIRC, they also invented the babelfish.

[IronJack]

I used to use it. It was the best ... in its day.

[Revolting cat!]

I used to be used to using Nymphoseek.

[SatinDoll]

I stopped using Altavista when I discovered it had been bought by Google. I used it for years, but it is no one’s business what I search for online.

I now use Dogpile.com. Now I’ll probably get all kings of messages about how evil Dogpile.com is!

[RobertClark]

use STARTPAGE.COM as it piggyback’s on Google’s crawler’s

Startpage does not 'piggyback' on Google's crawlers?!?! What in the heck is that supposed to mean? Startpage submits a request to the Google server, in the same manner as you normally would from your browser, and then displays the results. It does so in an anonymous way utilizing proxys. Ixquick is generally the name they utilize outside of the U.S.

Google bots do not have any other SE's "piggybacking" on their proprietary crawls. No one other than Google has access to the bots.

[Graybeard58]

I got a lot free genealogy back in the 90s, traced my family back to the 16th century. The same info is still available......but not for free anymore.