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AltaVista (a contraction of alta + vista, meaning "high view" in the Spanish language), based in Palo Alto, California, was a web search engine. Launched in December 1995, it was the first "full text"/boolean searchable index of the World Wide Web.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AltaVista | Advertising | Yes | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Available in | Multilingual | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Current status | Defunct (July 8, 2013 (2013-07-08)) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Founded | December 15, 1995; 30 years ago (1995-12-15) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Key people | Ilene H. Lang | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Key people | Paul Flaherty | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Key people | Louis Monier | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Key people | Michael Burrows | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Key people | Jeff Black | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Launched | December 15, 1995; 30 years ago (1995-12-15) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Parent | Digital Equipment Corporation (1998) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Parent | Overture Services (2003) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Parent | Yahoo (2003–2013) | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Registration | No | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | Type of site | Search engine | 1.00 | infobox |
| AltaVista | URL | altavista.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-02-25) | 1.00 | infobox |
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