Searching AltaVista Never More ...

Yahoo has, under the supervision of  Marissa Mayer, started to cut away some services and products in order to focus on a core range instead. Classics like the search engine AltaVista is discontinued, along with eleven other are more or less known offerings.

On June 28 cleansing began with Yahoo! BrowserPlus, Yahoo! Axis and Citizen Sports. Tomorrow July 7 marks the last day that AltaVista is left running. 

So if you want to relive old memories from the time the engine was dominating the Internet - now is the time to do so!

Other companies that have begun to cut their services are Google and BlackBerry. On July 1 popular Google Reader disappeared, and BlackBerry have tightened the amount of products on the market drastically. While Google is taking over the searches it is losing ground in several other areas. Are we seeing the start of a streamlining of products?