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...
Back in the days of AltaVista, search engines were keyword-centric. Now in its 11th year, the only major Search Marketing Conference and Expo in the Midwest will be packed with 70+ sessions covering PPC management, keyword research, Search Engine...
She also helped launch DoubleClick and AltaVista in the UK. For arguments sake, letâ””s say that youâ””ll be bringing four members of your team to the SES conference and SEM training. News from the Search Engine Watch Blog
Search Assist utilizes technology Yahoo acquired with AltaVista called Prisma, which was launched in 2002. SES San Jose 2007: The Perfect Conference Schedule, Web Analytics World We report the top search marketing news daily at the Search Engine...
Paul Flaherty, A Founder Of AltaVista, Passes Away - Sad news that Paul Flaherty, one of the founders of AltaVista, passed away on Friday on a heart attack. Coverage of Danny Sullivan's keynote conversation with Barry Diller at Search Engine...
Formerly the Senior Manager of Web Search at Yahoo (and earlier with AltaVista), this search engine insider peaked audience interest as he dispelled myths associated with the recent search engine patents.
Brian Reid, one of AltaVista's founders who went over to Google, filed the suit when he was aged 54 and alleged that he was told by a Google exec that he didn't fit into Google's youthful atmosphere. Meet The B2B Search Engines - One of the top...
Webcrawler, Magellan, Infoseek, Inktomi, Altavista, Excite, and many others came and went. A special report from the Search Engine Strategies conference, August 8-11, 2005, San Jose, CA. Conference chair Danny Sullivan prodded Berkowitz on a range...
Things just didn't change around all the time, as with the bad old days of AltaVista and gang. Transcripts from Conference on Search Ad Disclosure Now Available - In June, Danny blogged about a panel he was on at: Trust or Consequence: How Failure...
Shari Thurow Chats Shopping Search with Become.com's Jon Glick - In the first part of a two part interview, Shari Thurow chats with search industry veteran (Yahoo, AltaVista) Jon Glick, presently the Senior Director for Product Search at shopping...
Happy Belated Birthday to AltaVista By Gary Price, Dec. Last week, December 15th to be precise, was the ninth anniversary of AltaVista's launch. The article: Search-A-Palooza '04, offers a look at the just completed SES Chicago conference by...
Raymie Stata, founder of Stata Labs, was one part of the original development team from AltaVista. While speaking at an investment conference on Monday, Yahoo's CEO Terry Semel said his company is building a desktop search tool.
Raymie Stata, founder of Stata Labs, was one part of the original development team from AltaVista. You can listen to the conference call and read the complete news release here. A full agenda and detailed information can be found at the conference...
Veterans of AltaVista, Excite and Infoseek reminisce about the early days of web search, and opine about Google, then and now. Meanwhile at AltaVista Louis was in perplexed state once again as the strategy shifted from search to portal.
We've had stuff like this in the past on major search engines, especially at both AltaVista and Excite, if I recall correctly. You can listen to the conference call and read the complete news release here.
AltaVista says its collection of 250 million pages came from an original set of 400 million. Google has become the latest search engine to offer a dedicated spam reporting feature, having announced the new service at last week's Search Engine...
AltaVista would not have lost traffic to Google if it hadn't neglected search. See what I've long called the Google-AltaVista "X" because of the way the traffic lines cross via the December 2000-May 2001 Media Metrix ratings page listed here.
Greybeard AltaVista aims to burnish image Ad Age, March 2000 http://www.adage.com/interactive/articles/20000313/article2.html In fact, AltaVista already enjoys such heavy grassroots traffic that an TV campaign could push it into seriously rivaling...
An analysis of over 1/2 billion queries done at AltaVista. Analysis of a Very Large AltaVista Query Log Digital Systems Research Center, October 26, 1998 http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/silverstein98analysis.html
MSN Search Employee Arrested for Allegedly Hacking AltaVista Search Engine Watch Forums, July 12, 2004 http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forum/showthread.php? A former AltaVista employee is accused of taking some of AltaVista's source code.
