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People liked it when it was the only game in town, but no one ever said, ah, let me altavista that. but now google, google's a verb. last week yahoo announced they would be retiring the veteran search engine, which was a surprise to most who figured altavista had already died years ago. so everyone apparently except the people of pawnee, indiana. >> so i looked you up on altavista and i found out the last seven towns you've gone to ended up bankrupt. >> okay. first of all, why does everyone in this town use altavista? is it 1997? >> so is if you fired up your computer ready to search something...

But along came google and the good times ended for altavista, even when internet giant yahoo bought it in 2003, never quite were able to turn it around. people liked it when it was the only game in town, but no one ever said, ah, let me altavista that. but now google, google's a verb. last week yahoo announced they would be retiring the veteran search engine, which was a surprise to most who figured altavista had already died years ago. so everyone apparently except the people of pawnee, indiana. >> so i looked you up on altavista and i found out the last seven towns you've gone to ended up ba...