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AltaVista is dead. Here’s why it’s so hard to compete with Google.
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washingtonpost.com
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by
binarybits
on July 11, 2013
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michaelpinto
on July 11, 2013
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AltaVista was really neglected by DEC, and in fact they were at such a low point that many early Google employees came directly from AltaVista. And DEC was a mess at the time because they were sold to Compaq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista
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