Regarding Altavista, I remember when I used to live in France, it was very popular, especially amongst the webmasters and Internet-savvy people, even last year I was using it at the University when I needed relevant documentation. I think it is one of the most innovative search engine initially created.

I’m doing well. Thanks.

I’m glad that I went through looking at all of these acquisitions. It helped put Yahoo!’s background into a better perspective for me.

Altavista was very popular in the days before Google, with very good reason. The folks working for them were very bright, and the methods they came up with at the time were innovative. The patents I listed above, from people like Monika Henzinger and Andrei Broder, are worth looking through. Great stuff.

There were a few more companies in there that I remembered.