Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Who owns the once popular search engine Altavista?

  1. Yahoo!

  2. Google

  3. Paypal

  4. None
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Explanation

AltaVista, once one of the most popular search engines on the internet, was acquired by Yahoo in 2003 through its purchase of Overture Services. Overture had earlier acquired AltaVista from Compaq (which had inherited it from Digital Equipment Corporation). Yahoo shut down AltaVista in 2013. Google never owned AltaVista, and PayPal is a payment processor, not a search engine owner.

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