Marcia - 4:10 am on May 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

>Actually to all but a few of us it was long before their time.

When I got online in 1998, my daughter set Yahoo as my start page, and they were using Alta Vista for search at the time - which I thought *was* search altogether in my very first few days. It didn't last too long after that, that AV *was* search for a lot of people.

Yahoo actually gave Google their jump start and put them on the map with giving them the search contract, and here's a thread from down memory lane from the time that it was pending whether Yahoo would renew the contract with Google. Inktomi was wooing Yahoo at the time.

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Don't miss the link to the AV thread (forum 1)
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It's a classic on life and times in search during that period of time.
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