AltaVista's a web search engine owned by Yahoo!. AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity has waned due to the rise of Google. 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's some dispute about who was responsible for the original idea, two key participants were Louis Monier, who wrote the crawler… (More on Altavista)