Comment by eduction
2 days ago
You could get search results on yahoo. The directory results would come first and then search results from their current “partner.” At one point it was Inktomi, the Berkeley company behind HotBot. At one point it was Google. Before them, one of the more generic ones.
originally it was directory only, wasn’t until fairly late they adddd an alta vista fallback.
If you define the mid 90s as “late,” sure. I’d argue the very phrase “Alta vista fallback” kind of screams “early,” at least in overall internet time.