AltaVista is History
Written on May 10th, 2026 by Tech Ads
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the “1 search engine on the Web. F
PC Computing just crowned HotBot the winner of its Search Engine
Shootout. They didn’t poll the pundits — they let the engines fight for
the title at the NetWorld conference in Las Vegas. Over two days,
HotBot, Excite, AltaVista, and Infoseek searched. For current financial
data. For the number of floors in the Sears tower. For the GNP
of Jordan. For the kind of answers you can’t fake.
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nb k k results than the competition — it performed more than twice as well as
uNDOOKMAr AltaVista, three times better than Infoseek.
AltaVista
forever.
With 54 million documents in its database, the largest online, HotBot is
the most comprehensive search engine in existence. And with up to 10
million documents updated every day and the Web indexed every two
weeks, HotBot is the ultimate information resource — everything,
everywhere, as it exists right now. Not ancient history.
Try HotBot for yourself.
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‘AltaVista is History’
Launched in May of 1996, HotBot was a search engine created by HotWired, the online presence of Wired Magazine. Powered by the Inktomi links database, HotBot’s core claim was that it’s page database was far more up to date than Alta Vista - it’s primary competitor.
A late 1997 archive of the HotBot homepage can be viewed at the Wayback Machine
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