[Info-vax] AltaVista background information

[MG]

Recently I thought about AltaVista, the search engine I used in the
1990s, without any doubt my favourite one back then.  I remember the
"[d|i|g|i|t|a|l]" branding well, but unfortunately didn't really look
beyond that back then.  (I was also quite young.)

I was wondering, are there documents (articles, books and so forth)
telling a thing or two about how it came into being and outlining
the technological foundation?  I'm, needless to say, interested if
VMS was involved.  (Else Tru64 or any other DEC operating system
and hardware platform of interest.)

  - MG