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In the mid-1990s, which search engine became the first to let users search the full text of web pages rather than just titles and summaries, briefly making it the go-to tool before Google's rise?
Answer
AltaVista
Launched by Digital Equipment Corporation in December 1995, AltaVista was the first search engine to index the complete text of web pages at scale, giving it a decisive accuracy advantage over rivals. At its peak it handled tens of millions of queries daily, but it failed to adapt its business model and was overtaken by Google after 2000.
💡 Did you know?
Altavista, the 1990s search giant, rejected an acquisition offer from Google for under $1 million in 1997, choosing to remain independent before eventual irrelevance.
Other options people guess
- WebCrawler
- Lycos
- Infoseek
Topics
- 1990s
- search-engines
- web-history
- internet
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