Definition: AltaVista is a popular search engine with one of the largest databases on the web, indexing more than 140 million pages.
AltaVista has the honor of being one of the oldest search engines on the Web, since it started way back (this is a long time in Internet years) in 1995 with the Internet's first Web index. Just as a quick age comparison, Google started in 1998, and Yahoo started out as an Internet guide in 1994.
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