Yahoo! and Altavista
As far as I can tell, Yahoo! own Altavista. This is almost certainly old news, but slightly embarrasingly I’d never spotted it before. Altavista is owned by Overture, which is in turn owned by Yahoo!
Only happened to spot this when I saw that Altavista.pl is hosted within Yahoo!’s IP range.
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August 30th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
…so it happened in 2003. Can’t believe I missed this completely.
September 2nd, 2005 at 11:32 am
I suppose its hard to keep track of what company swallows what, then in turn gets swallowed.
I’ll tell you whats more embarrasing- remember when Altavista did adsl etc? The day they gave that up they posted a message on their website saying (something like) “We no longer think internet searching is a gimmick, but is useful. We will now focus on that.” The mind boggles…….