1. George Brown A View From Above

2.  Who created it?  Scientists from the Digital Equipment Corporation’s Research lab in Palo Alto, CA  When was it created?  Spring of 1995, Google in 1998, and Yahoo as an internet guide in 1994. First actual search engine on the Web

3.  What was its purpose, when it was created?  Was to search the whole web for every, single word on every HTML page on the internet in a fast, searchable index  What is it's purpose now?  To provide access to information to the global community

4.  What does it do best?  It was the first search- engine to do a multi- lingual search; includes Chinese, Japanese, and Korean  Also, Babel Fish was the Web’s first Internet machine translation device that would translate whole words and phrases from English to Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, or Russian  How does it work?  Creators at AltaVista put is as to search every word on the web very fast and easy  Was the first ever search engine to launch Image, Audio, and Video search capabilities  Most of the search results that people get go to Yahoo results because AltaVista is run by Yahoo

5.  How big or popular is it?  AltaVista is one of the oldest search engines and one of the most trusted search engines.  Polls say that AltaVista is 2 nd in popularity behind Google  Where is it based?  AltaVista’s Headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California; right outside of San Francisco

6.  How does it make money to stay going?  Currently, I can’t find out how they make money…  How healthy is it?  AltaVista is very healthy and should always be healthy because of the time it’s been on the Web and the number of people that use AltaVista