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AltaVista

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I've listed this article for peer review because it's very close to GA and I'd like to know exactly what needs to be done to get it there.

Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 19:03, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

It's a fine start, but I think this article needs substantial work before it's ready for GA. Namely, I think it should be expanded.

The lead is too short. It should be a concise summary of the article, not a two-sentence definition. Aim for two or three paragraphs.

To be appropriately broad in its coverage, I think the article needs to situate AltaVista in the context of its influence on search engines after it and on Google in particular. There should also be a discussion of what exactly was available before it and how people found things on the Web.

We need to explain in more detail in the main text (in plain English, mind you) what the purpose of the crawler and indexer was and how these things interacted to make AltaVista work.

It would be nice to have more detail on why AltaVista failed and how it was supplanted by other search engines. Was it just the dot-com bubble bursting, or were there other factors that led to its demise?

If AltaVista doesn't exist, how can it provide BabelFish?

I wish I had more specific suggestions. The prose is a bit choppy in places, but I think that given the amount of expansion I think the article needs, it's probably most efficient to do that first.--Batard0 (talk) 14:08, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]