Web portal AltaVista has temporarily stopped updating its search directory pending technology upgrades, the company confirmed today. AltaVista builds its search directory in two ways. The service has ...

Did the salesman act alone? AltaVista is calling it an isolated mistake by a lone salesman. But some say a recent pitch to buy top placement in search results speaks volumes about the fast-and-loose ...

A long time ago, in the mid-to-late 1990s, AltaVista was a major search engine, but with the rise of Google its popularity slid, eventually becoming irrelevant to most users. Back then, I never missed ...

Search engine company AltaVista Co. is refocusing on its core search business and will end its free AltaVista.com e-mail account service for about 200,000 U.S. customers on March 31. In an ...