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AltaVista

Summary

AltaVista is a former entity[1]. AltaVista ranks in the top 6% of former_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,170 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • AltaVista is credited with the discovery of Paul Flaherty[3].
  • AltaVista is the creator of Digital Equipment Corporation[4].
  • AltaVista is in the country of United States[5].
  • AltaVista's instance of is recorded as former entity[6].
  • AltaVista's founder is recorded as Digital Equipment Corporation[7].
  • AltaVista's owned by is recorded as Digital Equipment Corporation[8].
  • AltaVista's headquarters location is recorded as Palo Alto[9].
  • AltaVista's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • +1994-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of AltaVista[11].
  • AltaVista was dissolved in +2013-07-08T00:00:00Z[12].
  • AltaVista's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01_zz7[13].
  • AltaVista's location of formation is recorded as Palo Alto[14].
  • AltaVista's date of official opening is recorded as +1995-12-15T00:00:00Z[15].
  • AltaVista's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+570073'}[16].
  • AltaVista's name in kana is recorded as アルタビスタ[17].
  • AltaVista's Treccani ID is recorded as altavista[18].
  • AltaVista's Who's on First ID is recorded as 85802929[19].
  • AltaVista's Treccani's Lessico del XXI Secolo ID is recorded as altavista[20].
  • AltaVista's Bing entity ID is recorded as eb0cf265-48bf-2cd2-e8fc-24c6ef930e62[21].
  • AltaVista's domain name is recorded as altavista.digital.com[22].
  • AltaVista's domain name is recorded as altavista.com[23].

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Works and Contributions

AltaVista is credited with the discovery of Paul Flaherty[3]. AltaVista is the creator of Digital Equipment Corporation[4].

Why It Matters

AltaVista ranks in the top 6% of former_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,170 views/month).[2] AltaVista has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] AltaVista is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . yahoo.tumblr.com. yahoo.tumblr.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). AltaVista. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/altavista
MLA “AltaVista.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/altavista.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_altavista_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{AltaVista}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/altavista}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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