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Yahoo shutting down AltaVista, Axis search tool, and other services in coming days

As part of an ongoing attempt to streamline and reinvent the company, Yahoo has announced that it will be shutting down 12 products in the coming days and months. Among other things, that means that once-popular search engine AltaVista will be shutting down for good on July 8th. AltaVista, which became part of Yahoo nearly a decade into its life in 2003, was a major search destination before Google rose to dominance. Now, Yahoo asks users to "please visit Yahoo! Search for all of your searching needs."

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/28/4475774/yahoo-shutting-down-altavista-axis-search-tool-and-other-services

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I think this is a stupid decision. Altavista was at the time in the similar situation as Google search is now. Everybody were using it, well together with Lycos.

Yahoo could have re-branded the altatvista, but still keep the existing visible pages to look like altavista. At least for historical reasons.

It was just few days ago when I tried to use babelfish.altavista.com and gor redirected to yahoo.com weird start page, which feels like a blow from 1990's.

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Flickr seems to do well with the new offers.

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I think this is a stupid decision. Altavista was at the time in the similar situation as Google search is now. Everybody were using it, well together with Lycos.

Yahoo could have re-branded the altatvista, but still keep the existing visible pages to look like altavista. At least for historical reasons.

It was just few days ago when I tried to use babelfish.altavista.com and gor redirected to yahoo.com weird start page, which feels like a blow from 1990's.

Google translate is better anyway

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I had never even heard the term "Search Engine" when a friend showed me AltaVista the first time; I was absolutely dazzled by what it could do and spent many hours looking up everything I could think of...this all back in the day of GreenScreen. When Google came along, it was so superior that I never looked back so I shouldn't lament AV's demise but....well, it was my first real internet love.

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