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Looks like Y is shutting AltaVista down !!

When I first started doing SEO AV was the google in its day, although they did constantly frig around with the algo every week !!!

I just can't understand why Yahoo is shutting it down, as its just a domain name running on full automation and its not like anyone is out developing it or anything. - It must still get some traffic and used by some?

Yahoo shutting down AltaVista, Axis search tool, and other services in coming days

As part of an ongoing attempt to streamline and reinvent the company, Yahoo has announced that it will be shutting down 12 products in the coming days and months. Among other things, that means that once-popular search engine AltaVista will be shutting down for good on July 8th. AltaVista, which became part of Yahoo nearly a decade into its life in 2003, was a major search destination before Google rose to dominance. Now, Yahoo asks users to "please visit Yahoo! Search for all of your searching needs."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/28/44...other-services