Google just died

[Sysman]

Altavista's still going???

<toddles off to have a look>

As reported just the other day here.

If memory serves correctly, Digital flogged AltaVista at one point but for shares rather than cash. The shares turned out to be worthless.

A History of AltaVista in which we learn that some lucky chap registered the altavista.com domain name in 1994 and managed to sell it in 1998 for $3.3 million.

As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard disk space, and received 13 million queries per day.

[doodab]

I used to like Yahoo and Altavista. I used to find navigating the categories gave better results than searching once you learned your way around them.

And it's still there:

Yahoo! Directory

[MrMark]

wow, cool and so is babelfish, you remember, that thing people used before google translate

Is Ask Jeeves still going? Hmm, it appears so..

Ask Jeeves Web Search