AltaVista

AltaVista – Why did Altavista search engine lose ground so quickly to Google? From the standpoint of information retrieval, Altavista and earlier search engines adapted the principles that had been developed since the 1960’s to do automatic searching on large bodies of information. Several information retrieval theories had been developed (principally Boolean, vector, and probabilistic) … Continue reading “AltaVista”

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