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Paul Flaherty, AltaVista online search engine creator, dies at 42

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Paul Flaherty, AltaVista online search engine creator, dies at 42
Daily Comet - AP ^ | 3/24/06 | JORDAN ROBERTSON
Posted on 3/24/2006 3:03:01 PM by Borges

Paul A. Flaherty, a computer engineer who helped create the pioneering AltaVista online search engine, has died. He was 42.
Flaherty died March 16 of a heart attack at his home in Belmont, Calif., about 20 miles south of San Francisco, family members said Friday.
Flaherty came up with the idea of indexing Web pages that made the AltaVista search engine one of the most popular Internet search tools in the mid1990s.
"He was such a warm and loving man, and he was exceptionally smart," his brother, Michael, said Friday. "It's just uncanny to find someone with that
much intellectual power but that much warmth, too."
Flaherty was working as a research engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation in Palo Alto when he teamed up with two other staff researchers in
1995 to develop AltaVista's technology.
The Web site was made public in December 1995 and within weeks was processing several million searches a day. It was spun off from Digital
Equipment as a private company in 1999.
Flaherty served as director for technical strategy at AltaVista until leaving in 2000 to work in management consulting. Before his death, he was vice
president for product development at TalkPlus, a telecommunications software company in Menlo Park.
Born in Milwaukee and raised in Minnesota, Flaherty earned a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1994 from Stanford University and never quite
shook his Midwest roots despite his success in Silicon Valley, Michael Flaherty said.
"I never saw him taking to the more cutthroat lifestyle in Silicon Valley," his brother said.
He is survived by his wife, Natasha Flaherty of Belmont; his parents, James Sr. and Ruth Flaherty of Fargo, N.D.; and four brothers.
A funeral mass and burial is scheduled for Tuesday in Fargo.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: holgerdansk; obituary

1 posted on 3/24/2006 3:03:04 PM by Borges
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To: Borges

AltaVista was my search engine of choice for many years. It allowed the use of hierarchical Boolean and regular expressions searches, something the
vaunted google still doesn't have.

2 posted on 3/24/2006 3:10:05 PM by E=MC² (Are liberals born stupid, or do they have to work at it???)
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To: Borges

Gosh.

So sad.
3 posted on 3/24/2006 3:11:15 PM by RightOnTheLeftCoast (You're it)
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To: E=MC²

AltaVista was my search engine of choice for many years.
Imagine if Digital Research hadn't blown their lead in search engines. They would still be company.
4 posted on 3/24/2006 3:14:10 PM by Paleo Conservative
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Very young for a heart attack, though it happens. AV was also my favorite search engine in the early years. I always thought they very badly missed
the boat during the 'net frenzy '99 - '01 by not going IPO. Weren't they bought by Dave Wetherell from CMGI? There's a stock trading at 1% of its
former price.

5 posted on 3/24/2006 3:19:51 PM by Attention Surplus Disorder (Funny taglines are value plays.)
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To: Borges

Genetic RIP

6 posted on 3/24/2006 3:20:41 PM by wardaddy (why are so many lesbicans cops?......and why do they hate me?)
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To: E=MC²

I still use Alta Vista occasionally when Google doesn't turn up what I'm looking for...and AV usually finds it for me.

7 posted on 3/24/2006 3:27:53 PM by elli1
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off to the big search engine in the sky..

8 posted on 3/24/2006 3:35:44 PM by ladyshealth
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

RIP Paul ....
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9 posted on 3/24/2006 3:42:24 PM by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: Borges

RIP

10 posted on 3/24/2006 4:37:16 PM by csvset
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To: Borges

HolgerDansk?
N9FZX
He will be missed. RIP
11 posted on 3/24/2006 5:14:09 PM by cynwoody
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So he was a FReeper? All the more reason to mourn his passing.

12 posted on 3/24/2006 5:20:08 PM by JRios1968 (A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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So he was a FReeper? All the more reason to mourn his passing.
Indeed.
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At least, I'm 99.99% sure that HolgerDansk == Paul Flaherty.
Last October, he wrote a post stating that he had helped clean up in the aftermath of the first internet worm in the late 80's while at Stanford. He
expressed displeasure that the author of that worm, one Robert Tappan Morris, got off with a wrist slap. I couldn't resist posting a reply noting RTM's
subsequent good fortune as an internet entrepreneuer.
I also clicked on HolgerDansk's freeper info and, using the technology he pioneered to follow the clues therein, quickly discovered his identity and
background. So, when I saw the news item on his passing, the thought popped into my head, "Hey, isn't that that freeper I looked up a while ago?". I
couldn't remember his screen name, so I had to go back through my own posts to find it.
Anyway, his last post was on 16 March, the date of his death.
13 posted on 3/24/2006 5:50:23 PM by cynwoody
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I believe you are right. It does appear that Paul Flaherty was FReeper HolgerDansk. There are too many similarities between them to dismiss it as
coincidence.
An additional piece of evidence: this article recites that Flaherty was originally from Milwaukee. Not too deep into HolgerDansk's posting history he
mentions that he, HolgerDansk, headed up a fraternity in Milwaukee many years ago.
I would imagine there are quite a few nationally noteworthy or celebrated FReepers clinging to anonymity here.
14 posted on 3/24/2006 6:07:57 PM by JCEccles
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At least, I'm 99.99% sure that HolgerDansk == Paul Flaherty.
Confirmed, sadly.
15 posted on 3/24/2006 10:38:24 PM by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your
life.)
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To: cynwoody; Ninian Dryhope; texasbluebell; Glorious Liberty; GOP_1900AD; JRios1968; JCEccles; ...

At least, I'm 99.99% sure that HolgerDansk == Paul Flaherty.
Let me clear up that 0.01%.
I am his older brother.
Why the name Holger Dansk? My father's grandfather was Danish and all of the jolly round features of the Danes went to Paul. Gustav Mikkleson
was a locomotive engineer on the Green Bay & Western RR.
(Funny story; Paul was in Copenhagen once to give a speech for DEC, one of hundreds he gave around the world. He was talking outside on the
sidewalk with one of his hosts when an elderly woman approached and started reading Paul out in Danish. After she had her say and moved on, Paul
asked his laughing host what that was all about. Apparently, the woman had told Paul that Danes should only speak Danish while in Denmark and not
English!)
According to Danish legend, Holger Dansk is a sleeping Viking warrior who will awake to defend the homeland if Denmark is ever threatened.
It is a little disconcerting to read news articles of your brother's passing, (the AP is interviewing our father today for another story), but it speaks to the
magnitude of the man.
Thank you for all of your kind thoughts.
16 posted on 3/26/2006 7:37:35 AM by Last Dakotan
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Your brother helped shape and influence the world in a powerful way. But his posts here always evidenced a plain-spoken, unassuming, and
unpretentious spirit. He was, by all measures, a steadfast and true son of America and embodiment of its noblest virtues.
God bless your brother's family; God bless you and your family. God bless your parents for the good and gracious men they blessed this nation with.
17 posted on 3/26/2006 7:45:55 AM by JCEccles
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I'm Paul's youngest brother, Mike.
I was surprised to get a call from an AP reporter on Friday and asked "How do you think your brother would like to be remembered?". I had to think
for a bit, but I knew that the answer was related to who he was, not what he had accomplished. Paul's accomplishments were many, but I think it
speaks volumes that I'm only learning about some of them now. He liked to talk about his hobbies and ask how things were going in my life. He never
dwelled on how he would conquer the world with his latest act of technical genius; or if he did talk about such things, it was simply because they were
"neat-o".
I'm crushed. I will miss him so much.
18 posted on 3/26/2006 8:44:26 AM by GOP_Party_Animal
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Thank you for sharing that kind, wise, and poignant tribute to your brother.

19 posted on 3/26/2006 10:29:29 AM by JCEccles
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To: SirKit

DEC ping!

20 posted on 3/26/2006 3:11:50 PM by SuziQ
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To: Last Dakotan; All

Rest assured, you, your family and more importantly, your brother's family, are all in our thoughts and prayers. It's recomforting to know we had such
a fine person among us, and more comforting to know he's already at the right hand of our God and Father.

21 posted on 3/26/2006 3:58:49 PM by JRios1968 (A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Oh man. What a bummer.
I'm so sorry to hear this. Cripes he was only a couple years ahead of me at MU.
My condolences to you and your family. I'm sorry I never got to know him better.
22 posted on 4/1/2006 5:36:04 PM by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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