AltaVista.fr was the French-market presence of AltaVista, a web search engine and search technology provider owned by Overture Services, Inc. It served French-speaking internet users seeking to find and index information across the web. AltaVista originated in spring 1995 at a Palo Alto computer science research lab, where it developed what it described as the first full-text search database on the World Wide Web, and held 61 search-related patents.
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