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| | Search engine rankings on Alta Vista: a brief history of the AltaVista search engine |
 | | AltaVista, which means "a view from above", was one of the first search engines to achieve major success in the late 1990's. |
 | | AltaVista underwent a relaunch at the end of 2002 and offered a range of search functionality, including image and multimedia search options, plus Babel Fish, the web's first Internet machine translation service that can translate words, phrases or entire Web sites to and from English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Russian. |
 | | Consequently, when Yahoo purchased Overture at the end of 2003, AltaVista was part of the package and, sadly, is now just a clone of Yahoo, using the same search index and very basic, large font, interface. |
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