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A comment on Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services.

Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services by taopao on Friday June 28, 2013 @07:14PM (#5960826)
Cue the usual HN wailing and gnashing of teeth that accompanies project cancellations:

Yahoo! Axis (June 28, 2013) Yahoo! Browser Plus (June 28, 2013) Citizen Sports (June 28, 2013) Yahoo! WebPlayer (June 30, 2013) FoxyTunes (July 1, 2013) Yahoo! RSS Alerts (July 1, 2013) Yahoo! Neighbors Beta (July 8, 2013) AltaVista (July 8, 2013) Yahoo! Stars India (July 25, 2013) Yahoo! Downloads Beta (July 31, 2013) Yahoo! Local API (September 28, 2013) Yahoo! Term Extraction API (September 28, 2013)

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Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services by rgbrenner on Friday June 28, 2013 @08:44PM (#5961074)
I don't think there is anyone that is going to complain about AltaVista. I didn't even know that it was still alive. I thought that died a decade ago. I just learned two things: altavista was not dead, and Yahoo bought them at some point.. when did that happen?

Yahoo really let AltaVista die a long slow death. I assume they were waiting for that one last user to sign off.

Edit: I didn't vote you down, btw..

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