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AltaVista

AltaVista is a search engine bought out by Overture. Although Overture was bought by Yahoo. AltaVista was an early powerhouse in searching, but on October 25, 1999 they did a major algorithmic upgrade which caused them to dump many websites. Ultimately the upgrade and brand mismanagement drove themselves toward irrelevant class and they loss market and mind share.

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Search engine bought out by Overture prior to Overture being bought by Yahoo. AltaVista was an early powerhouse in search, but on October 25

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