people liked it when it was the only game in town, but no one ever said, ah, let me altavista that. but now google, google s a verb. last week yahoo announced they would be retiring the veteran search engine, which was a surprise to most who figured altavista had already died years ago. so everyone apparently except the people of pawnee, indiana. so i looked you up on altavista and i found out the last seven towns you ve gone to ended up bankrupt. okay. first of all, why does everyone in this town use altavista? is it 1997? so is if you fired up your computer ready to search something today on altavista, this is what you got. a redirect to yahoo s search page because today altavista went the way of netscape and geo cities and prodigy and the beloved but mostly dead friendster. all dead and buried in that internet graveyard in the cloud. a new upgrade to download every day, better designed improved features and when an old website dies unclicked for years nobody mourns. nobody pro
but along came google and the good times ended for altavista, even when internet giant yahoo bought it in 2003, never quite were able to turn it around. people liked it when it was the only game in town, but no one ever said, ah, let me altavista that. but now google, google s a verb. last week yahoo announced they would be retiring the veteran search engine, which was a surprise to most who figured altavista had already died years ago. so everyone apparently except the people of pawnee, indiana. so i looked you up on altavista and i found out the last seven towns you ve gone to ended up bankrupt. okay. first of all, why does everyone in this town use altavista? is it 1997? so is if you fired up your computer ready to search something today on altavista, this is what you got. a redirect to yahoo s search page because today altavista went the way of netscape and geo cities and prodigy and the beloved but mostly dead friendster. all dead and buried in that internet graveyard in the
altavista had already died years ago. so everyone apparently except the people of pawnee, indiana. so i looked you up on altavista and i found out the last seven towns you ve gone to ended up bankrupt. okay. first of all, why does everyone in this town use altavista? is it 1997? so is if you fired up your computer ready to search something today on altavista, this is what you got. a redirect to yahoo s search page because today altavista went the way of netscape and geo cities and prodigy and the beloved but mostly dead friendster. all now buried in that internet graveyard in the cloud. a new upgrade to download every day, better designed improved features and when an old website dies unclicked for years nobody mourns. nobody produces an episode of vh1 behind the browser. no cyber wall or cell phone light vigil. but there s been too much internet death lately. first the untimely demise of google reader last week and now this. attention must be paid. altavista, laid to rest toda