Summary of Company
AltaVista founded in the spring of 1995 by scientists at Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab in Palo Alto, CA, devised a way to store every word of every HTML page on the Internet in a fast, searchable Index. This led to AltaVista's development of the first searchable, full-text database on the World Wide Web.
Technology- Crawler: the main results are compiled Spidering the web.
Ownership: Yahoo!






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