One More From the Google Usenet Archive, Happy Anniversary AltaVista

[gary price]

Since we've been finding all sorts of interesting "blasts from the past"
from the newly completed Google Usenet archive I thought I'd throw
in one more.

Tomorrow, (Dec. 15, 2001) is the 6th anniversary of DEC beginning public
beta testing of AltaVista.

Here is a link to the full-text of the press release:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9512151806.AA02246%40raptor.pa.dec.com&
output=gplain

>From the release,
"Under development at Digital's Corporate Research Group here,
the technology promises to surpass the limitations of current
information services by delivering the most complete, precise, and
up-to-date information of the Web's entire text.  The technology's
super spider and super indexer employ next-generation software and
advanced networking, powered by the highest-performing 64-bit Alpha
computers."



cheers,
gary




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