| Yahoo may continue AltaVista site
Yahoo's plans for AltaVista |
xcandyman
msg:842036 | 4:04 pm on Aug 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
[computerweekly.com...] | "We believe that the AltaVista brand is still very strong, and has come to attract a particular type of user, and it is entirely possible that we may keep the AltaVista site to serve a particular niche of users," said Yahoo senior vice president for engineering Phu Hoang. |
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| "I think that there may be opportunity for us to try new search features and new capabilities that are a little bit on the edge, that we are not yet ready to show up in the mainstream." |
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Looks like they will make AltaVista their beta site. Steve
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curlykarl
msg:842037 | 4:34 pm on Aug 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I hope so :), I have first place listings on AV but get very little traffic :) Karl
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martinibuster
msg:842038 | 4:58 pm on Aug 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
AV has always been a destination site. Alltheweb has always been a Beta-showcase site. Seems that YO is reversing the scenario. YO has been promoting alltheweb to portals etc. for their search business.
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EliteWeb
msg:842039 | 5:04 pm on Aug 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
AV has features, I may not get much traffic from them but i like being able to go to av.com to go to their site so fast and easy to access bablefish :P
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jpalmer
msg:842040 | 1:58 am on Aug 16, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Greetings and Gidday from downunder folks, As soon as AV started spidering again and including pages in the DB, it appeared back in my top 10 referrers and top 5 SEs. (That's 2-3% of my total traffic, by contrast G is #1 at around 25-30%) I've always had a soft spot for them, and now I find I'm going back and using them to get a different result from the usual G SERPs. Never thought I'd say this, but like the layout better too, it's cleaner than G! Hope Yahoo keeps AV "honest" Cheers
JP
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scareduck
msg:842041 | 7:12 pm on Aug 18, 2003 (gmt 0) |
The same report, from Infoworld: [infoworld.com...] Buried in this report is the fact that they're shipping jobs to India, again. FC is reporting it as "the bulk" of Yahoo's R&D efforts. I guess we're all supposed to become lawyers, truck drivers, or sell real estate. Those are about the only jobs I can think of that absolutely can't be moved.
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