AltaVista

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What Wikipedia says

AltaVista (a contraction of alta + vista, meaning "high view" in the Spanish language), based in Palo Alto, California, was a pioneering web search engine. Launched in December 1995, it was the first "full text"/boolean searchable index of the World Wide Web.

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Image: AltaVista Webseite, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.