AltaVista's search goes on. At a time when upstart companies such as Google and GoTo.com have won the search spotlight, the Web search pioneer continues to grope its way through the dark night of the ...

AltaVista said Tuesday that it will discontinue its free Web e-mail service, the latest online amenity to get axed as a result of cost-cutting measures. The Internet search company notified its ...

Overture Services plans to acquire search technology company AltaVista for $140 million in cash and stock, the latest sign of consolidation in the resurgent search business. Pasadena, Calif.-based ...

Overture Services Inc. announced a surprise deal Tuesday to acquire the pioneering Internet search firm AltaVista Co. for $140 million -- a fraction of the $2.3 billion the company fetched in 1999 at ...

BANGALORE, INDIA – Yahoo Inc. may continue with the AltaVista Web site (www.altavista.com) after it completes its acquisition of Overture Services Inc., and may use some of AltaVista’s search ...

AltaVista 's bid to become a portal years after America Online and Yahoo! established their supremacy in that arena was ill-conceived. But that doesn't mean the much-maligned site should be written ...

AltaVista Co. is taking over the day-to-day operation of its AltaVista Canada portal from Telus, which has managed the Web site on contract since its debut three years ago. "We're at the end of a ...

Getting back to its roots as a search engine, AltaVista has launched a redesigned Web site that focuses on a faster, simpler and highly powered search service. The company, based in Palo Alto, Calif., ...

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ANDOVER, Mass. — CMGI Inc., an Internet venture fund company, agreed yesterday to buy a majority stake in Compaq Computer Corp.’s AltaVista search site for $2.3 billion, mostly in stock, to create a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Web search engine AltaVista will add an online newsstand to its main index today to make its results more topical and useful to surfers looking for up-to-the-minute information. With ...