Yahoo to shut down pioneering AltaVista search site

Pioneering search engine AltaVista is due to be shut down on 8 July. AltaVista was one of the first search engines to index significant amounts of web content and proved hugely popular before Google debuted. via Pocket http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23127361#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa