Altavista vs. Altavista

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   Hi! Has anyone checked or are we all placing inappropriate approbration. If 
   I remember correctly, AltaVista.com existed before Digital introduced the 
   search engine with this name.
   
   By all rights, they should have changed the name of the search engine once 
   this situation was discovered. Again my memory could be wrong, but I do 
   believe that AltaVista.com decided to live with the situation rather than 
   sue -- a praiseworthy decision.
   
   --Richard
   
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Subject: Re: Altavista vs. Altavista 
Author:  <cameron at cs.sfu.ca > at SMTP
Date:    1/9/98 11:43 PM


If you check closely, you'll see that altavista.com forwards its 
search queries to altavista.digital.com.
   
Essentially, the folks at altavista.com are enjoying a free ride 
and a free opportunity to sell advertising space off the fine 
work by the people at DEC who created and maintain the AltaVista 
search engine.
   
Robert D. Cameron, Associate Professor           cameron at cs.sfu.ca 
School of Computing Science                      FAX: (604) 291-3045 
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada  V5A 1S6
   
Internet Electronic Library Project at SFU       
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