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lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="AltaVista" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista" title="AltaVista – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="AltaVista" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista" title="AltaVista – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="AltaVista" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista" title="AltaVista – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="AltaVista" 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Alta_Vista_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Alta Vista (disambiguation)">Alta Vista (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">AltaVista</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Altavista_logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Altavista_logo.png/120px-Altavista_logo.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Altavista_logo.png/180px-Altavista_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Altavista_logo.png/240px-Altavista_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="181" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Altavista-1999.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/Altavista-1999.png/300px-Altavista-1999.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Altavista-1999.png 1.5x" data-file-width="376" data-file-height="265" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Top: 2002–2013 AltaVista logo<br />Bottom: The AltaVista <a href="/wiki/Web_portal" title="Web portal">web portal</a> in 1999</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Type of site</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Web_search_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Web search engine">Search engine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Multilingualism" title="Multilingualism">Multilingual</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1995<span class="noprint">; 30 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1995</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div style="display:inline;" class="locality"><a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a></div>, <div style="display:inline;" class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Key people</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilene_H._Lang&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ilene H. Lang (page does not exist)">Ilene H. Lang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Flaherty_(computer_scientist)" title="Paul Flaherty (computer scientist)">Paul Flaherty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Monier" title="Louis Monier">Louis Monier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Burrows" title="Michael Burrows">Michael Burrows</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Black_(businessman)" title="Jeff Black (businessman)">Jeffrey Black</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Holding_company" title="Holding company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">Digital Equipment Corporation</a> (1998) <br /><a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_Marketing" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Search Marketing">Overture Services</a> (2003)<br /><a href="/wiki/Yahoo" title="Yahoo">Yahoo</a> (2003–2013)<br /><a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Inc._(2017%E2%80%93present)" title="Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present)">Yahoo! Inc.</a> (2017–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.altavista.com/">www<wbr />.altavista<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Online_advertising" title="Online advertising">Advertising</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">December 15, 1995<span class="noprint">; 29 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1995-12-15</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Defunct (July 8, 2013<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">2013-07-08</span>)</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-defunct_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-defunct-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>AltaVista</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Web_search_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Web search engine">web search engine</a> established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to <a href="/wiki/Google_Search" title="Google Search">Google</a> and was purchased by <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a> in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine. On July 8, 2013, the service was shut down by Yahoo!, and since then the domain has <a href="/wiki/URL_redirection" title="URL redirection">redirected</a> to <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Search" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Search">Yahoo!'s own search site</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-defunct_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-defunct-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The word "AltaVista" is formed from the words for "high view" or "upper view" in Spanish (alta + vista); thus, it colloquially translates to "overview".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>AltaVista was created by researchers at <a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">Digital Equipment Corporation</a>'s <a href="/wiki/DEC_Systems_Research_Center" title="DEC Systems Research Center">Network Systems Laboratory and Western Research Laboratory</a> who were trying to provide services to make finding files on the public network easier.<sup id="cite_ref-ray-ray-selzer_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ray-ray-selzer-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Paul_Flaherty_(computer_scientist)" title="Paul Flaherty (computer scientist)">Paul Flaherty</a> came up with the original idea,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with <a href="/wiki/Louis_Monier" title="Louis Monier">Louis Monier</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Burrows" title="Michael Burrows">Michael Burrows</a>, who wrote the <a href="/wiki/Web_crawler" title="Web crawler">Web crawler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Search_engine_indexing" title="Search engine indexing">indexer</a>, respectively. The name "AltaVista" was chosen in relation to the surroundings of their company at <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto, California</a>. AltaVista publicly launched as an Internet search engine on December 15, 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilene_H._Lang&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ilene H. Lang (page does not exist)">Ilene H. Lang</a> was the founding CEO of AltaVista after being recruited by Digital Equipment Corporation to build its software business.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At launch, the service had two innovations that put it ahead of other search engines available at the time: It used a fast, <a href="/wiki/Multithreading_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Multithreading (software)">multi-threaded</a> <a href="/wiki/Web_crawler" title="Web crawler">crawler</a> (Scooter) that could cover many more <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">Web</a> pages than were believed to exist at the time, and it had an efficient <a href="/wiki/Backend_database" class="mw-redirect" title="Backend database">back-end search</a>, running on advanced hardware.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popularity">Popularity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Popularity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Altavista-1996.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/78/Altavista-1996.png/220px-Altavista-1996.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/78/Altavista-1996.png/330px-Altavista-1996.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Altavista-1996.png 2x" data-file-width="376" data-file-height="265" /></a><figcaption>The AltaVista home page in 1996, showing the simple search interface</figcaption></figure> <p>AltaVista was the first searchable, full-text <a href="/wiki/Database" title="Database">database</a> on the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a> with a simple interface.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another distinguishing feature of AltaVista was its <a href="/wiki/Minimalism_(computing)" title="Minimalism (computing)">minimalistic</a> interface, which was lost when it became a <a href="/wiki/Web_portal" title="Web portal">Web portal</a>, but regained when it refocused its efforts on its search function. It also allowed the user to limit search results from a domain, reducing the likelihood of multiple results from the same source. </p><p>AltaVista's site was an immediate success. Traffic increased steadily from 300,000 hits on the first day to more than 80 million hits per day two years later. The ability to search the Web, and AltaVista's service in particular, became the subject of numerous articles and even some books.<sup id="cite_ref-ray-ray-selzer_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ray-ray-selzer-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The AltaVista site became one of the top destinations on the Web, and in 1997 it earned US$50 million in <a href="/wiki/Sponsor_(commercial)" title="Sponsor (commercial)">sponsorship</a> revenue.<sup id="cite_ref-John_Battelle_2005_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-John_Battelle_2005-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the 11th most visited Web site in 1998 and in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>AltaVista was the most favored search engine used by professional researchers at the "Internet Search-Off" study in February 1998, with 45 percent of the researchers choosing it. Second place belonged to <a href="/wiki/HotBot" title="HotBot">HotBot</a> at 20 percent.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By using the data collected by the crawler, employees from AltaVista, together with others from <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a> and <a href="/wiki/Compaq" title="Compaq">Compaq</a>, were the first to analyze the strength of connections within the budding World Wide Web in a seminal study in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, AltaVista was used by 17.7% of Internet users while <a href="/wiki/Google_Search" title="Google Search">Google</a> was used by only 7% of Internet users, according to <a href="/wiki/Media_Metrix" class="mw-redirect" title="Media Metrix">Media Metrix</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technology">Technology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Technology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of 1998,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> AltaVista is based on weighted boolean search. There are two major search modes: simple querying and advanced querying. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Query_format">Query format</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Query format"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A "simple query" looks like `word1 word2 "phrase" -word3 +word4` which is interpreted as "(word1 OR word2 OR "phrase") AND NOT word3 AND word4". Words within double quotes are phrases: they must be adjacent in a document for the document to match the query. A "query term" is a word or a phrase. An "advanced query" is an explicit Boolean expression. In advanced query mode, `and`, `or`, and `not` are interpreted as Boolean operators rather than as search terms. Advanced queries may also include `near`: the words on either side of `near` must be close -- but not necessarily adjacent. </p><p>Both simple and advanced queries support `host:xx.yy.zz` which queries only documents found on the <a href="/wiki/Hostname" title="Hostname">hostname</a> (<a href="/wiki/Domain_name" title="Domain name">web domain</a>) `xx.yy.zz`. A pull-down menu allows the user to restrict result pages only to pages in a particular language. In the advanced search, an input box allows the user to restrict the results to pages last modified on a certain date, or within a range of dates. </p><p>AltaVista returned URLs ranked by its internal "relevance function". Each page contains 10 URLs. The user may click on "3", for instance, to get to the 21st-30th most relevant URLs. This differed from some other search engines, where the user can jump to only the next 10 or previous 10 URLs. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Query_log">Query log</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Query log"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>AltaVista logs user requests in a "query log" A request may consist of a new query or a new result screen for a previously submitted query. Each request includes the following fields: <a href="/wiki/Unix_time" title="Unix time">Unix timestamp</a> for the query; <a href="/wiki/HTTP_cookie" title="HTTP cookie">cookie</a> (blank if the user has disabled cookies); query terms; result URLs; other user-specified query modifiers, such as a restriction on the result pages' language or date of last modification; metadata, such as whether the query is a simple or an advanced query, the browser the submitter is using, the IP address of the submitting host, etc. </p><p>AltaVista collected session information to study querying behavior. A "session" is a series of queries by a single user made clustered within a small range of time. Queries with the same cookie are assumed to come from the same user. For those 4% of queries in which the user has disallowed cookies, then the pair "domain IP / web browser used" was used. It was a poor substitute for cookies, particularly for large ISPs such as AOL, where ~10,000 of users shared a single IP address. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Business_transactions">Business transactions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Business transactions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1996, AltaVista became the exclusive provider of search results for <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a>. In 1998, Digital was sold to Compaq, and in 1999, Compaq redesigned AltaVista as a Web portal, hoping to compete with Yahoo!. Under CEO Rod Schrock, AltaVista abandoned its streamlined search page and focused on adding features such as shopping and free e-mail.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 1998, Compaq paid AltaVista Technology Incorporated (ATI) $3.3 million for the <a href="/wiki/Domain_name" title="Domain name">domain name</a> <i>altavista.com</i> – Jack Marshall, cofounder of ATI, had registered the name in 1994. </p><p>In June 1999, Compaq sold a majority stake in AltaVista to <a href="/wiki/ModusLink_Global_Solutions" class="mw-redirect" title="ModusLink Global Solutions">CMGI</a>, an Internet investment company.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CMGI filed for an <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">initial public offering</a> (IPO) for AltaVista to take place in April 2000, but when the <a href="/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" title="Dot-com bubble">Internet bubble</a> collapsed, the IPO was cancelled.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, it became clear that AltaVista's <a href="/wiki/Web_portal" title="Web portal">Web portal</a> strategy was unsuccessful, and the search service began losing market share, especially to Google. After a series of layoffs and several management changes, AltaVista gradually shed its portal features and refocused on search. By 2002, AltaVista had improved the quality and freshness of its results and redesigned its user interface.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_Marketing#Origins_of_GoTo.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Search Marketing">Overture Services, Inc.</a> for $140 million.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2003, Overture was taken over by Yahoo!.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Yahoo! purchased Overture, AltaVista used the same search index as Yahoo! Search - the same search engine it had provided results to previously.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2010, a Yahoo! employee leaked <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint" title="Microsoft PowerPoint">PowerPoint</a> slides indicating that the search engine would shut down as part of a consolidation at Yahoo!.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Free_services">Free services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Free services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>AltaVista provided <a href="/wiki/Babel_Fish_(website)" title="Babel Fish (website)">Babel Fish</a>, a <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">Web</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Machine_translation" title="Machine translation">machine translation</a> application that translated text or webpages from one of several languages into another.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was later superseded by Yahoo! Babel Fish in May 2008 and now redirects to <a href="/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bing (search engine)">Bing</a>'s translation service.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>AltaVista also provided a free email service which had 200,000 active registered email accounts using the "altavista.com" domain and others before shutting down in March 2002. Domestic US accounts were closed; others were sold to <a href="/wiki/Mail.com" title="Mail.com">Mail.com</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_CAPTCHA_system">First CAPTCHA system</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: First CAPTCHA system"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To fight against an increasing number of <a href="/wiki/Internet_bot" title="Internet bot">malicious internet bots</a>, AltaVista implemented the first practical <a href="/wiki/CAPTCHA" title="CAPTCHA">CAPTCHA</a> schemes to protect against fraudulent account registrations.<sup id="cite_ref-rg20_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rg20-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-or19_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-or19-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-usp98_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usp98-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They implemented it specifically to prevent <a href="/wiki/Internet_bot" title="Internet bot">bots</a> from adding <a href="/wiki/URL" title="URL">URLs</a> to their <a href="/wiki/Search_engine" title="Search engine">web search engine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-or19_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-or19-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Shutdown">Shutdown</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Shutdown"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On June 28, 2013, Yahoo! announced on its <a href="/wiki/Tumblr" title="Tumblr">Tumblr</a> page that AltaVista would shut down on July 8, 2013;<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> since that date, visits to AltaVista's home page redirect to Yahoo!'s main page.<sup id="cite_ref-defunct_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-defunct-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AltaVista&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output 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