Posted on 03/24/2006 5:59:33 PM PST by Last Dakotan
SAN FRANCISCO - Paul A. Flaherty, a computer engineer who helped create the pioneering AltaVista online search engine, has died. He was 42.
Flaherty died March 16 of a heart attack at his home in Belmont, about 20 miles south of San Francisco, family members said Friday.
Flaherty came up with the idea of indexing Web pages that made the AltaVista search engine one of the most popular Internet search tools in the mid-1990s.
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I am so very sorry to read this. Please accept my sympathy for your family.
RIP Paul.
Only the good die young. May God provide you with an abundance of faith as you work through the difficult emotional times ahead.
Pity. Only the good die young. May he rest in peace.
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Prayer sent for you and your family.
Heartfelt prayers for you and your family.
sympathies.
Deepest sympathy to you and your family.
Very Sad!
Prayers for your family.
My condolences.
prayers Alta vista bump
That's hard. So young.
Lost my big sis in her forties, two years ago...so I know.
You and your family are in my prayers.
May GOD be with you and your family.
He did a good job as an engineer.
Deepest sympathy to you and your family.
Deepest condolences from the RightOnline family. God bless.
My condolences to you and your family.
Alta Vista. A greater view than anyone imagined.
My condolences as well.
We in Wisconsin send our condolences.
RIP native son.
Oh my gosh. I was just yesterday reading his posts on a Stanford thread, and now I see that those posts were made on the same day he died.
So sorry to hear! Condolences to your family.
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