Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death

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Posted by timothy on Friday June 28, 2013 @10:39PM from the pour-your-electronic-version-of-a-40 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Remember AltaVista from the late '90s? Yahoo is finally pulling life support and letting Altavista die a noble death after over 15 years of hard service." You can only take so many years of being a running gag.

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Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday June 28, 2013 @10:41PM (#44139669)

I won't believe it until Netcraft confirms it

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at least we still have Dogpile and Ask Jeeves (Score:5, Funny)

by Trepidity ( 597 ) writes: <[gro.hsikcah] [ta] [todhsals-muiriled]> on Friday June 28, 2013 @10:50PM (#44139725)

You'll never make me use Google!

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Running gag? (Score:5, Funny)

by Molt ( 116343 ) writes: on Friday June 28, 2013 @10:53PM (#44139757)

If you can only take so many years of being a running gag then can we look forward to Yahoo! pulling the plug on itself?

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Re:at least we still have Dogpile and Ask Jeeves (Score:5, Funny)

by fermion ( 181285 ) writes: on Friday June 28, 2013 @11:59PM (#44140061) Homepage Journal

Don't forget ask.com which is automatically installed with every Java update. If oracle supports it, and it works well with IE, it must be good.

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Arnie Says... (Score:2, Funny)

by Jah-Wren Ryel ( 80510 ) writes: on Saturday June 29, 2013 @12:17AM (#44140147)

Alta la vista Baby!
Or something like that...

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Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Saturday June 29, 2013 @12:37AM (#44140207)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

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Re:Back in the Days of Kerosene Internet (Score:5, Funny)

by TClevenger ( 252206 ) writes: on Saturday June 29, 2013 @12:44AM (#44140227)

"Warez do you want to go today?"

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Asta Lavista (Score:5, Funny)

by future assassin ( 639396 ) writes: on Saturday June 29, 2013 @12:54AM (#44140285)

baby.

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Re:AltaVista (Score:4, Funny)

by MightyMartian ( 840721 ) writes: on Saturday June 29, 2013 @03:43AM (#44140669) Journal

I've heard Larry Page eats babies and drinks the blood of castrated goats. It must be true because Google lies so much.

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Re:AltaVista (Score:4, Funny)

by Keen Anthony ( 762006 ) writes: on Saturday June 29, 2013 @04:17AM (#44140743)

Actually, that is true. I found it through one of the expert guides at The Mining Company.

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Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death

Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)

at least we still have Dogpile and Ask Jeeves (Score:5, Funny)

Running gag? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:at least we still have Dogpile and Ask Jeeves (Score:5, Funny)

Arnie Says... (Score:2, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Back in the Days of Kerosene Internet (Score:5, Funny)

Asta Lavista (Score:5, Funny)

Re:AltaVista (Score:4, Funny)

Re:AltaVista (Score:4, Funny)

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