Altavista Founder Dies
Flaherty died March 16 of a heart attack at his home in Belmont, Calif., about 20 miles south of San Francisco, family members said Friday.
It’s kinda sad if you point your browser to Altavista.com for some sort of information regarding the founder. They apparrently made no mention of Flaherty’s death.
Altavista was my favorite search engine back then when it was still under Compaq. It was still pretty good, back then it was Yahoo! and Altavista for me. It’s sad to see Altavista’s condition right now. (As of now, Altavista is part of Overture, which is now part of Yahoo!.)
Rest in peace.
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Sad to hear that Altavista is going down hills…
by m3iz (Mar 26, 2006 at 12 PM)but i still love yahoo! =p
So saaad! :’( RIP!
by Nafcom (Mar 27, 2006 at 4 AM)m3iz: True, I still use Yahoo! now. I started using Google too. Other favorites include A9. MSN Search needs to be improved.
Nafcom: Indeed.
by Mr. Dew (Mar 28, 2006 at 6 AM)