Come 8th July and another search engine altavista is going to leave cyberspace. Altavista has been one of the first search engines, indexing millions of pages. It was a product that too ahead of its time. Some how through companies buying each other, it came with Yahoo. Now Yahoo has decided to stop this product.
Surprising but in my two decades in IT I have started to see even good products reaching their end of life. Have a look at this page as of today.
From 8th July the domain name www.altavista.com will redirect to yahoo.com.
Source : BBC
