Yahoo, as part of their efforts to focus on specific web properties, has decided to close the search engine AltaVista. For those of you old-school enough to remember going to www.altavista.digital.com to get your AltaVista search, it is a sad...
We don’t Lycos, we don’t Webcrawl, we don’t AltaVista; we Google. But unlike most other media that will run your ad as long as your checks clear and you don’t violate editorial policy, Google cares very much that your ad is relevant and appealing...
The search engine results page (SERP) has undergone quite an evolution since the early days of Lycos, AltaVista and Excite. FTC's antitrust probe into Google, the search marketing organization SEMPO issues a statement to the FTC Chairman Jon...
Delicious, AltaVista, Alltheweb & 5 More Yahoo Products by Danny Goodwin A day after laying off about 4 percent of employees and shuttering Yahoo Video, a screenshot leaked on Twitter that revealed Yahoo is planning to cut (or "sunset") eight Yahoo...
A day after laying off about 4 percent of employees and shuttering Yahoo Video, a screenshot leaked on Twitter that revealed Yahoo is planning to cut (or "sunset") eight Yahoo products: Yahoo Picks, AltaVista, Alltheweb, Yahoo Bookmarks, MyM...
They'd never head of names like AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, etc.companies that defined the search space less than 10 years ago. From AltaVista to Google, and GoToast to Search Ignite, the fortunes of companies and technologies evolve over time.
In reading "7 Search Engines Google Obliterated" (Excite, InfoSeek, AltaVista, HotBot, AllTheWeb, Yahoo, and Ask) over on Search Engine People's blog yesterday, it makes you hope a site like Blekko or a new player sees some success to lessen...
Levinsohn also held senior management positions with AltaVista, an early pioneer and leader in search, CBS Sportsline where he oversaw all content and development for the top rated sports site, and HBO where he launched and oversaw a unit...
Mike Grehan remembers an SES San Jose (2004) when Doug Cutting, former Senior Architect at Excite, Steve Kirsch, former founder of Infoseek and Louis Monier former CTO at AltaVista all reminisced about Page and Brin's initial pitch.
Before Yahoo had their own crawler, their backfill results were powered by Inktomi, AltaVista and finally Google (in that order). Search Products announced today that Bing now officially powers Yahoo's organic search results in USA and Canada...
This spamming phenomenon was the core reason for the fall of AltaVista and the rise of Google in the first place. It's quite understandable because it's all about money. If Google makes a change to its algorithm that cuts the traffic to your...
Google doesn't use the keywords meta tag in web search they way AltaVista did 10 years ago, so optimizing your keyword meta tags is dead, dead, dead. Mike McDonald of WebProNews Videos interviewed me recently at OMS 2010, aka SES San Diego, for a...
So, ignoring YouTube in 2010 would be as dumb as ignoring Google back in 2001 -- when it passed AltaVista to rank #2 behind only Yahoo! Online Marketing Summit 2010 gets underway in San Diego this week.
But, is anyone still trying to get a high ranking is AltaVista anymore? Well, these factors mattered 10 years ago -- when AltaVista was still the leading search engine. At SES London 2010, there was an unconventional session held at the bar of the...
Back in the days of AltaVista, search engines were keyword-centric. Search engines constantly look for new signals they can use to improve the quality of the results they provide to users. Ultimately, user satisfaction is a critical component in...
Well, it did once, when AltaVista was king of the hill back in 2000. And SEO could poison the web again -- if Google wasn't doing a better job than AltaVista did in fighting the darkside SEO masters that Powazek remembers from the old days.
Mind you, the search engines that were considered at that time were Lycos, AOL, MSN, Yahoo, AltaVista, and Excite. Warning: today's column is strictly editorial, so those of you looking for actionable tips might want to check back in next week.
I diplomatically observed that the website had been optimized back when AltaVista was the leading search engine. Oh, and during 2002, Google charged past AltaVista to become the leading search engine.
Heading into 2009 using old strategies and tactics makes about as much sense as optimizing your website for AltaVista. If you register today to attend Search Engine Strategies Chicago, which will be held Dec.you can save up to $200 with the Early...
She also helped launch DoubleClick and AltaVista in the UK. Today's Top Story CarrieHill Local Search for Little Biz LITTLE BIZ For many small businesses, commercial transactions don't take place on the Web.
