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Re:A sad story of an Internet Search Giant by jitbit on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @09:06AM (#3792727)
Yep, Altavista. Before writing that blog post I verified all the facts at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo! (image hosting is Flickr, blog/social platform is Yahoo-360, other services include Yahoo Groups, Yahoo messenger, GeoCities page hosting, Yahoo Mail, Overture (paid search ads) and other services.
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Re:A sad story of an Internet Search Giant by sanxiyn on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @10:15AM (#3792972)
Yahoo! Groups was awesome. One of the best acquisitions they made. Originally written in Python in 1997.
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Re:A sad story of an Internet Search Giant by shortformblog on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @09:11AM (#3792742)
But … wait. They didn't acquire Altavista until 2003, when it was already dead in the water.
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Re:A sad story of an Internet Search Giant by jitbit on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @09:24AM (#3792775)
Yep, 2003, my bad... But Yahoo still dominated the search anyways. According to December 1999 stats they had 56% market share (while nearest competitor - Excite - had 11%, Google was <1%)
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Re:A sad story of an Internet Search Giant by damian2000 on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @09:19AM (#3792762)
yeah that's what I thought - it seems like they were fairly close to Yahoo before 2003 though ... providing their search results from 1996.
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