The search engine results page (SERP) has undergone quite an evolution since the early days of Lycos, AltaVista and Excite. Further, the search industry is incredibly fast-moving and unpredictable. FTC's antitrust probe into Google, the search...
They'd never head of names like AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, etc.companies that defined the search space less than 10 years ago. The search industry never stops. From AltaVista to Google, and GoToast to Search Ignite, the fortunes of companies and...
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...
Also, at TechCrunch Disrupt yesterday, Vinod Khosla spoke about when Google wanted to sell to Excite for less than $1 million, and they passed. Khosla talked Sergey Brin and Larry Page down to $750,000, but Excite CEO George Bell even rejected that.
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.
Names like WebCrawler, Excite, Infoseek, and Inktomi -- all general search engines -- spring to mind. So, I slipped out a few years back to hang over at ClickZ for awhile (which was fun), but now I'm back at my old stomping ground here at Search...
This is also the type of approach that doesn't excite a CMO, sell an idea, or win business. "Integrating Search, Part 1" focused on why search is sometimes separated in an agency and how to begin addressing it.
Your business was figuring out strategies for Lycos, Looksmart, Ask, YellowPages.com, Baidu, Excite, Inktomi, Dogpile, Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. Remember when the search world was less defined than it is now?
Mind you, the search engines that were considered at that time were Lycos, AOL, MSN, Yahoo, AltaVista, and Excite. Search was spam-riddled. Keyword stuffing was the norm in search engine optimization.
In 1999, Excite had the opportunity to buy Google for $1 million. Former Excite CEO George Bell hates to be reminded of this. Arguably the biggest faux pas of our industry came in 1999, when Excite had the opportunity to buy Google for $1 million...
How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips. Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
When they first started the company was nearly sold to Excite.com for a million dollars, because they could not monetize what they were doing. The Silicon Valley firm has been trying to eliminate accidental clicks and has been working with...
The last show I watched discussed the development of search and told how Excite turned down the chance to buy Google foe a million dollars. Former editor and writer for Wired John Heileman shares his insights into the development of the Internet.
We personalize, we tempt, we dazzle and we excite with video, news and geographically relevant search results. When I ask people outside the search engine marketing industry about information and commerce portal activity, many have similar answers.
Google Gadget Ads excite advertisers and no one else, Valleywag Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from...
This can include everything mentioned above (SEO targets, monthly dashboard reporting, SEO documentation, training materials, training schedule) as well as posting internal SEO wins/challenges, internal case studies, lessons learned, recommended...
A Brief History of Excite, McInblog Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
Microsoft sites (including MSN Search and Live Search) dipped by 0.5 points to 10.5 percent share; Ask.com and related IAC sites, like Excite and MyWay, lost 0.1 point to keep fourth place with 5.4 percent share; and AOL and the Time Warner...
But, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin started tinkering with BackRub in a dorm room at Stanford University back in 1996, no one imagined that they would triumph over AltaVista, Lycos, Excite and the other leading search engines of the day.
Graham was the chief techie at Excite where he pioneered yet another search technique involving linguistic vector analysis that still offers some advantages, too. Excite. Excite still operates, but fair to say that ICE (the tech's acronym) didn...
