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AltaVista  User interfaces of some typical Internet search engines. The user may search by a selection of keywords in particular subject areas. | Search engine on the World Wide Web, originally set up by Digital Equipment, and purchased by sponsored search company Overture in 2003. Overture was in turn acquired by Yahoo! later the same year. AltaVista runs an automated program to index all the pages it can find on the Web, enabling visitors to enter search terms such as a name or subject and quickly retrieve a list of pages to visit to look for specific information. It has a similar indexing program for Usenet. |
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