NEW YORK - Once upon a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more. On Monday, its owner Yahoo Inc. sent AltaVista.com to the Internet graveyard to rest alongside ...

A long time ago, in the mid-to-late 1990s, AltaVista was a major search engine, but with the rise of Google its popularity slid, eventually becoming irrelevant to most users. Back then, I never missed ...

Once upon a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more. Palo Alto-based AltaVista was introduced in 1995, three years before Google was founded. Eclipsed by Google in ...

Storage vendor EMC and CMGI, which owns several Internet businesses, Monday announced they would cooperate to integrate EMC’s storage technology with CMGI’s software for searching on the Web. EMC and ...

Search engine company AltaVista Co. is refocusing on its core search business and will end its free AltaVista.com e-mail account service for about 200,000 U.S. customers on March 31. In an ...

AltaVista said Tuesday that it will discontinue its free Web e-mail service, the latest online amenity to get axed as a result of cost-cutting measures. The Internet search company notified its ...

Overture Services plans to acquire search technology company AltaVista for $140 million in cash and stock, the latest sign of consolidation in the resurgent search business. Pasadena, Calif.-based ...