george brown a view from above. who created it? scientists from the digital equipment...
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George Brown
A View From Above
Info 1
Who created it? Scientists from the
Digital Equipment Corporation’s Research lab in Palo Alto, CA
When was it created? Spring of 1995,
Google in 1998, and Yahoo as an internet guide in 1994. First actual search engine on the Web
Info 2
What was its purpose, when it was created? Was to search the
whole web for every, single word on every HTML page on the internet in a fast, searchable index
What is it's purpose now? To provide access
to information to the global community
Info 3
What does it do best? It was the first search-
engine to do a multi-lingual search; includes Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
Also, Babel Fish was the Web’s first Internet machine translation device that would translate whole words and phrases from English to Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, or Russian
How does it work? Creators at AltaVista
put is as to search every word on the web very fast and easy
Was the first ever search engine to launch Image, Audio, and Video search capabilities
Most of the search results that people get go to Yahoo results because AltaVista is run by Yahoo
Info 4
How big or popular is it? AltaVista is one of
the oldest search engines and one of the most trusted search engines.
Polls say that AltaVista is 2nd in popularity behind Google
Where is it based? AltaVista’s
Headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California; right outside of San Francisco
Info 5
How does it make money to stay going? Currently, I can’t
find out how they make money…
How healthy is it? AltaVista is very
healthy and should always be healthy because of the time it’s been on the Web and the number of people that use AltaVista
