Dive summary:
- Yahoo is spring cleaning which means eliminating both long standing and new products and services; among those to get the ax in this round include AltaVista, one of the web's oldest search services, and Yahoo Axis, one of the newest search products of Yahoo. [see full list of product shut downs and dates at Search Engine Land]
- AltaVista was one of the first full-text searches, launched in 1995, and was an industry leader until Google came along.
- There are twelve products and services that Yahoo plans to shut down between now and the end of September.
From the article:
"Yahoo says AltaVista will be shutting down on July 8th.
AltaVista launched way back in 1995, when you practically had to walk uphill in the snow — both ways — in order to find anything on the internet. It was the first full-text web search product and became a popular online destination. I remember it being scary good for that era. But several ownership changes hurt AltaVista and, of course, Google came along and became the web’s dominant search engine."
