One More From the Google Usenet Archive, Happy Anniversary AltaVista

[Mike McDermott]

Does anyone else remember scanning through your web logs and wondering who
this 'scooter' at DEC was and why they were so interested in your web
sight?

Mike

gary price wrote:
> 
> 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."

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