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0 pointsdangrossman13y ago0 comments

Yahoo! bought Overture (which owned AltaVista) way back in 2003. They only replaced the search results with Yahoo!'s a year ago after announcing the site would be shut down. Seemed like they were using it as an occasional test bed in the meantime.

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simonw13y ago

Yup, when I worked at Yahoo back in 2006 I remember altavista being described as a useful site for running experiments.

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0 pointsdangrossman13y ago0 comments

Yahoo! bought Overture (which owned AltaVista) way back in 2003. They only replaced the search results with Yahoo!'s a year ago after announcing the site would be shut down. Seemed like they were using it as an occasional test bed in the meantime.

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simonw13y ago

Yup, when I worked at Yahoo back in 2006 I remember altavista being described as a useful site for running experiments.

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