It seems like only yesterday (actually it was 1998) I was gaming Alta Vista for search rankings. We sure have come a long way in the search engine optimization (SEO) business. I would find pages that ranked highly for two word keyword phrases and I...
Greg Jarboe, President of SEO-PR and SEW author, said that SEO has changed dramatically over the past 10 years since Google passed Alta Vista to become the leading search engine in 2002. No, for real this time, I swear.
Google is live now, and although most people are saying publicly it will never have a chance against Alta Vista, the whispers are saying Google’s results are superior, because they are based on some other sort of metric related to the connections...
In its current state and with the volume of content on Google+, Search Plus Your World reminds me more of Alta Vista’s Scooter, scouring their own network for broad keyword matches, than an evolution of Google search.
This is like Alta Vista being unable to find Alta Vista. We found that out last week as they hyped the arrival of their latest search "innovation" that they call Search Direct. Or, as Yahoo puts it: a "simpler way to find answers fast" and the...
Did she think they should just go buy Alta Vista? It seems Google wants to get into markets quick and the company is willing to pay for a company and its experienced people, rather than build a product and team from scratch, SVP of Product...
Is Yahoo Doomed to be the Next Alta Vista? As you can see from the photo below, more than 200 people crammed into a space that could comfortably accommodate about 20. The soapbox was available for a few select speakers on either side to make their...
Alta Vista, Lycos and Yahoo were the early popular engines. And while many of the answers were insightful, its seems Der Spiegel does not understand the medium. Starting with their question of whether it promotes narcissism and stupdity to twits...
I used it along with Alta Vista in my early forays in the search space. Well it looks like one of the last of the old school search companies is closing its email service and website creation and hosting service Tripod, according to emails sent to...
Among those behind the new search engine are search experts from Google, IBM, eBay, Alta Vista, Xerox PARC, the Internet Archive and Stanford University. From the SEW blog: Organic Search Case Sensitive Google Search Results Being FoundChris Silver...
Among those behind the new search engine are search experts from Google, IBM, eBay, Alta Vista, Xerox PARC, the Internet Archive and Stanford University. Search startup Cuill has announced $25 million in venture capital as part of a second round of...
This is what ultimately led to the demise of Alta Vista and the rise of Google – Google had an algorithm (the PageRank algorithm) that discounted the keyword meta tag (and other similar tricks, such as hidden text), and provided quality results...
We tend to take things for granted.in the beginning there was Alta Vista, Northern Lights and a number of other search engines. You hear it all the time, "the world moves fast" with high speed connections and wireless access, we have come a long...
He was optimizing back in the days of Alta Vista and before Google, so his knowledge of search made him an old-timer. This is no different than setting up any business, but search being a new and ever-changing industry presents some unique...
Karnstedt was a key member of the management teams at a number of pioneering internet companies including Wired Digital Lycos and Alta Vista where he developed revolutionary online advertising methods that are still in use today.
Alta Vista & AllTheWeb Showing Different Results, Search Engine Roundtable That's changed, but there are still issues that need to be resolved, according to people with vision challenges.Earlier this year, Google released an accessible search for...
Alta Vista & AllTheWeb Showing Different Results, Search Engine Roundtable IAC To Launch AskCity; Local Info Services Site Reuters reports that IAC and Ask.com are launching a new local information services site named AskCity on December 4th.
It notes that one of the paper's author Professor Amanda Spink has used: to 30 million search sessions from popular search engines including Alta Vista, AlltheWeb.com, Ask.com, Excite and Dogpile. There's a new paper out saying that business...
Yahoo has integrated the classic Alta Vista Babel Fish into Yahoo Search. The service should now be available at http://babelfish.yahoo.com/, if it is not, it should be live shortly. I am told; You can translate a block of text up to 150 words and...
The Alta Vista Size Controversy: The Google-Yahoo spat over index size in 2005 was only the latest in long standing issues over page counts. Ten years ago today, I first starting writing publicly about search engines.
