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Hasta La Vista AltaVista

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A screen shot of the AltaVista search engine on June 28, 2013.

News Flash! Yahoo is shutting down Alta Vista. Answer to your question: Yes, it does still exist! But not for long. The ancient search engine — Yahoo acquired it in 2003 and it was about 8 years old at the time — will be scuttled along with 12 other products “in the coming days and months,” the Verge reports. A Yahoo post reveals AltaVista will be shut down July 8.

I hadn’t visited AltaVista in many years, so I googled it (yeah, I know), and the No. 1 return led me to AltaVista.com, where I then searched “AltaVista” to get the screen shot at left for posterity.

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Robert is an independent health and science journalist and writer based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a former editor-in-chief of Live Science with over 20 years of experience as a reporter and editor. He has worked on websites such as Space.com and Tom's Guide, and is a contributor on Medium, covering how we age and how to optimize the mind and body through time. He has a journalism degree from Humboldt State University in California.