Origins
AltaVista was created by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory who were trying to provide services to make finding files on the public network easier.Although there is some dispute about who was responsible for the original idea,two key participants were Louis Monier, who wrote the crawler, and Michael Burrows, who wrote the indexer. The name AltaVista was chosen in relation to the surroundings of their company at Palo Alto. AltaVista was publicly launched as an internet search engine on 15 December 1995 at altavista.digital.com.At launch, the service had two innovations which set it ahead of the other search engines; It used a fast, multi-threaded crawler (Scooter) which could cover many more Web pages than were believed to exist at the time and an efficient search running back-end on advanced hardware. As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard disk space, and received 13 million queries per day.This made AltaVista the first searchable, full-text database of a large part of the World Wide Web. The distinguishing feature of AltaVista was its minimalistic interface compared with other search engines of the time; a feature which was lost when it became a portal, but was regained when it refocused its efforts on its search function. AltaVista's site was an immediate success. Traffic increased steadily from 300,000 hits on the first day to more than 80 million hits a day two years later. The ability to search the web, and AltaVista's service in particular, became the subject of numerous articles and even some books.AltaVista itself became one of the top destinations on the web, and by 1997 would earn US$50.5 million in sponsorship revenue.
Business transactions
In 1996, AltaVista became the exclusive provider of search results for Yahoo!. In 1998, Digital was sold to Compaq and in 1999, Compaq redesigned AltaVista as a web portal, hoping to compete with Yahoo!. Under CEO Rod Schrock, AltaVista abandoned its streamlined search page and focused on features like shopping and free email.n June 1998, Compaq paid AltaVista Technology Incorporated ("ATI") $3.3 million for the domain name altavista.com – Jack Marshall, cofounder of ATI, had registered the name in 1994.In June 1999, Compaq sold a majority stake in AltaVista to CMGI, an internet investment company.CMGI filed for an initial public offering for AltaVista to take place in April 2000, but as the internet bubble collapsed, the IPO was cancelled.Meanwhile, it became clear that AltaVista's portal strategy was unsuccessful, and the search service began losing market share, especially to Google. After a series of layoffs and several management changes, AltaVista gradually shed its portal features and refocused on search. By 2002, AltaVista had improved the quality and freshness of its results and redesigned its user interface.
In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc. In July 2003, Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo!.
In December 2010, a Yahoo employee leaked PowerPoint slides that the search engine would be shut down as part of a consolidation at Yahoo.In May 2011, the shut down commenced, and AltaVista's search panel was replaced with a Yahoo! search, with all results returned on a Yahoo! page.
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Bentuk alien jenis ini yang paling mirip dengan manusia, hanya saja bentuknya agak lebih besar sedikit, dengan rambut pirang (putih), badannya atletis, bermata biru dan dalam berkomunikasi sering terdengar dengan akses nordic (skandinavia). Mereka ini yang diperkirakan merupakan golongan yang disebut-sebut dalam Book of Enoch I sebagai "the son of gods" atau "the Fallen Angel". Satu persamaan dengan kesaksian seorang yang pernah berjumpa alien jenis ini, yaitu Billy Meier, dia mengatakan bahwa bertemu dengan alien tipe nordics yang bernama Semjase yang berasal dari Pleiades. Persamaannya, dalam Book of Enoch I, "malaikat-malaikat yang jatuh" itu bernama Semjaza. Menurut kesaksian orang yang pernah berjumpa dengan alien nordics ini, mereka mengatakan bahwa dari alien nordics ini sebagian bekerja bersama alien greys dan master mereka adalah alien tipe reptoid. Beberapa saksi korban penculikan oleh alien menyatakan bahwa mereka juga melihat manusia selain alien tipe greys. Diduga, sebenarnya itu bukan manusia, namun alien jenis nordics.
Golongan ini adalah hasil rekayasa genetika (hybrid) antara alien dengan human. Bentuknya belum sempurna mirip manusia, kadang berupa seperti anak kecil, berambut dan kepalanya agak lebih besar bila dibandingkan dengan kepala normal manusia. Sebagian hybrid juga ada yang menyerupai manusia, ada yang berambut dan ada juga yang tanpa rambut. Kulitnya cenderung pucat dan bermata seperti alien greys. Sebagian menduga bahwa Men in Black adalah alien hybrid yang menutupi mata besar mereka dengan kaca mata hitam. Selain itu makhluk Chupacabra (goat sucker) adalah hasil hybrid juga. Rekayasa genetika (hybrid) ini diduga adalah upaya alien untuk bisa menciptakan makhluk yang bisa tinggal dengan bebas/lebih lama di dimensi manusia.
