the answer for that is AltaVista and other examples.
The Altavista search engine was shut down because it was purchased by Google in 2008. They purchased the domain and shut it down to reduce competition.
t is just a search engine
The Mycroft Project provides search plugins for AltaVista as well as for thousands of other sites and services. Visit mycroft.mozdev.org and enter altavista into the search box provided on the page.
Altavista was a popular search engine in the 1990s and early 2000s, known for its advanced search features and large index of web pages. People used Altavista to find information on the internet before the rise of Google and other search engines.
In case you mean "AltaVista" , its something like a predecessor of Google, a 1990s Internet Search Engine :-)
Google is the most popular search engine on the internet, followed by Yahoo. Other search engines include Bing, AOL search, AltaVista, Excite and Emlsearch
Google, Yahoo, Bing, AltaVista these are the some examples of search engine. These search engines are very useful for people. I think most use search engine includes Google,Bing,Yahoo,ask,excite etc
AOL, MSN, Google, Bing, 20search, AltaVista, All The Web, Yippy, and Dogpile
Yahoo, Google, Ask, Bing, Duck Duck Go, Baidu, Cuil, Lycos, AltaVista, and Excite.
One of the following search engine is exclusively meant for scientific information : (A) Google (B) Yahoo (C) SCIRUS (D) Altavista
yahoo search uses bing (that's right Microsoft bing) while alta vista uses the original yahoo search engine.