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Search Engine Watch
December 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Relaunches Site AltaVista again rolls out a new look and renews past promises that it is firmly focused on providing the best quality search possible.   |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
The "New" AltaVista With great fanfare, the "new" AltaVista was launched last week. Now owned by CMGI, the revamped service is being firmly targeted as a challenger against more established portals such as Yahoo, Excite and Lycos. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Redesigns, Again AltaVista has once again undertaken another major redesign of its service, the fourth in less than a year. Highlights of major changes. |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Regional Listings Left To Rot It turns out that AltaVista hasn't updated its regional indexes since April of this year, and the situation is likely to continue for the next two or three weeks... |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Launches New Search Site AltaVista has launched a search-only site today which follows on improvements the company made to its core database of web pages about a week ago. Called Raging Search, the new site delivers fast and uncluttered listings. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
From Wedding Photos To Phone Sex Wedding photographer Jon C. Domke was surprised to discover a sudden spike in traffic to his web site in early January. Surprise became shock when he checked his traffic logs and discovered that people searching for porn on AltaVista were reaching his site by mistake. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Paid Links Dropped, Other Changes At AltaVista There were a number of developments at AltaVista last month, and here's a rundown to the major ones: |
Information Today
July 8, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
AltaVista Launches AltaVista Prisma Technology AltaVista has announced the launch of AltaVista Prisma, a technology that aims to help users refine their queries and retrieve better search results. |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Opens Paid Inclusion After months of talking about it, AltaVista finally unveiled a paid inclusion program last week... |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Blending Vertical Results & Other AltaVista Improvements Over the past month, AltaVista has been busy making some under-the-hood changes to improve its search results. In particular, the service has upgraded its shopping search and is blending links that lead to its shopping search engine for appropriate queries into its main results... |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Unveils New Search Centers AltaVista has added three new "Search Centers" that cater to those seeking multimedia files and a fourth "Advanced Search" center with content designed to help searchers and webmasters alike. New country specific versions of AltaVista have also been added. |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Fourth Time Lucky For AltaVista? AltaVista could give Madonna a run for her money in the changing your image game. Earlier this month, the service once again significantly changed the look and feel of its service, the fourth such redesign in just over a year. Fortunately, AltaVista may have gotten it right, this time... |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
Many Changes At AltaVista t was a busy month for AltaVista -- a new owner, a new direction, new paid links auction and a freshness guarantee were among the major developments for the service. Here's a wrap up: |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Opens Affiliate Program, NOT Its Source Code AltaVista has launched a new program that allows affiliates to place search boxes on their sites and get paid 3 cents US per use. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Submission Changes & Other Developments AltaVista has a new Add URL system that promises faster addition of web pages to the index, as long as you are not using automated submit software... |
Search Engine Watch
October 1, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Sales Pitch Suggested Paid Inclusion Boost An AltaVista sales pitch tells Traffick.com's Andrew Goodman that paid inclusion will boost his pages. AltaVista then recants and says it was all just a misunderstanding. |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Europe Debuts Helpful Search Features AltaVista Europe has rolled out a helpful search management feature and new thumbnail images that appear next to some search results... |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
Beyond The Hype: Dissecting AltaVista's Claims In conjunction with its relaunch, AltaVista made several claims about its new search capabilities that don't currently hold up. Here's a look at where the service isn't yet matching promises made in a recent press release. |
ONLINE
July 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista continues to make changes to its site... Google has added automatic translation capability... Google Groups has expanded its advanced search capabilities and the depth of its Usenet archive... iLor has received much press lately for its innovative addition of features to Google... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
March 15, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Moreover Powers AltaVista, NBCi News Search Information from news search engine Moreover is now available at both AltaVista and NBCi, giving users of these services easier access to quality news content from across the web. |
Information Today
August 7, 2000
Chris Sherman |
AltaVista Gets a Facelift, Offers New Search Goodies |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2000 |
MSN Search Changes To Inktomi MSN Search has returned to using Inktomi to power the "Web Pages" section of its results. Inktomi was dumped in favor of AltaVista earlier this year |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Tightens Belt, Stays Hopeful On Search AltaVista had another round of layoffs in January, losing 200 people, which cuts the company workforce to about 600 total. AltaVista is retaining its search engineering staff and says it fully intends to continue developing its own web wide search product, rather than outsourcing this... |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Is AltaVista's Stale Index The Last Blow? Earlier this year, it emerged that AltaVista had not refreshed any of its country-specific web page indexes for months. Now, it turns out that the main global database is also several months old... |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Lays Off Staff, Promises Profits, New Direction In Search AltaVista has tightened its belt in the quest to become profitable by letting 25 percent of its staff go last month. It will focus on "3rd generation" search. |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Being Search Boxed To Death General purpose search engines often can do many different jobs. Nevertheless, your results might be better if you turn to a vertical tool. This may be the year that the general purpose search engines finally figure out a way to get the right vertical tools into the hands of their users... |
Searcher
October 2001
Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update As expected, now that Yahoo! has launched its own Yahoo! Search database, this has meant the death of unique databases at older search engines, including AltaVista and AlltheWeb. |
ONLINE
January 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Recent months have seen a spate of announcements about paid submissions and other commercial endeavors... AlltheWeb has added several multimedia databases from Fast Search and Transfer... AltaVista will add "Sponsored Listings" from GoTo... etc. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!... |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Unusual Power Web Searching Commands These are tools that you may never use or may only try once in a year of searching. But for those who like to dig deeper, who seek the hard-to-find information nuggets, using these commands can help you mine the Internet for information in ways that others will never consider. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web... |
ONLINE
January 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Customization Options for Web Searching The summer of 2000 witnessed several search engines suddenly offering such settings. Searchers now have more options and settings available for a variety of search and display features... |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy AltaVista Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
ONLINE
September 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update After several months of announcing the death or significant retrenchment of many of the old search engines, it is a pleasure to be able to report more new search engines that, despite the dot com economic downturn, are currently offering free access to their services... |
ONLINE
March 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista introduced a middle path between its simple and advanced search... Scirus, a scientific search engine... Google has expanded and improved its Advanced Search page... HotBot appears to no longer support any truncation ability... Redesign of the Dogpile metasearch engine... |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
Who's The Biggest Of Them All? AltaVista is now claiming to have the largest index of the web, at 250 million pages. But is its claim true? Does the service deserve the title of biggest? Probably -- or certainly it and FAST Search share the title. But it's not possible to say so definitively. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has been busy, adding full Boolean searching, redesigning its site, and looking towards a new owner... AltaVista joins AlltheWeb in getting bought out, and by the same company, Overture... Google has been active the past few months, but not with its usual search activities... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Patent Wars II: CMGI Strikes Back Tempest in a teapot -- That's what I said in 1997, when Lycos announced it had patents on search engine crawling, and I see nothing different in light of AltaVista's recent claims... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts An online searcher offers tips and practical advice on efficient and effective online searching using shortcuts and prefixes. |
Information Today
March 3, 2003
Barbara Quint |
Overture Acquires Two Major Web Search Engines On Feb. 18, Overture, which claims to be the "world's leading provider of Pay-For-Performance search to Web sites," announced that it had acquired AltaVista, a pioneer Web search engine. A week later, Overture announced that it had acquired all the Web search assets of Norwegian-owned FAST. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Searching Beyond Text: Multimedia Search Tools We examine some of the search engines available for tracking down the multimedia files available on the Net... |
ONLINE
May 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista adds related pages link; Ask Jeeves acquires Direct Hit; New Intelliseek BullsEye Pro 2; Dialog releases WebCheck, etc. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now offers suggested spelling corrections.... Altavista has loaded larger multimedia databases for its image, audio, and video searches... AOL Search has added an image search database... Ask Jeeves has sold off its enterprise search division... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
October 19, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Searching for a Good Searching Book? Here's a compilation of reviews for books designed to help you sharpen your searching skills. |
Search Engine Watch
November 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion Listings May Get Boosted At AltaVista It turns out that Trusted Feed content at AltaVista may indeed get a bump into the top results, in the right circumstances. |
Search Engine Watch
October 20, 2004
Mike Grehan |
Search Memories Veterans of AltaVista, Excite and Infoseek reminisce about the early days of web search, and opine about Google, then and now. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Gets Bigger, Fresher, Offers Better News In December, Google became the first crawler-based search engine to break the 1.5 billion web page mark. In addition, the service rolled out changes designed to improve the freshness of its results and the ability for users to find news... |
Search Engine Watch
September 12, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Finding Disaster Coverage At Search Engines Following the unprecedented terrorist attack on the United States today, web users turned en masse to search engines for information. It took those services some time to adjust to the demand, but as the day progressed, many came up to speed... |
