chiyo - 1:38 am on Nov 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

I sure hope this is not the new algo. Relevance in niche searches is abysmal.

AV still redirects Malaysians to AV UK! And now it dosent even let give us a link to go to the US interface, even though clicking on "Worldwide" does give us (I think on a quick check), the us database results. Why in the world does AV think Malaysians need to be redirected to the UK? They became independent more than 30 years ago, and their Prime Minister still exhorts Malaysians to "Buy British last"!

To me Looksmart is a major influence. Our few pages that were picked up by LS editors over the past 5 years and are very minor get top ranking over the home pages for the home pages keywords.

Clutter? I agree with John316. The promise of a cleaner interface has not been delivered. Their traditional commercial shopping mall brand continues. And their smarty pants "clustering" just does not make up for it.

And those little advertising boxes on the right? They just remind me there IS a Google, and make me itch to get back there.]

News2 didnt offer any matches to the 3 sets of keywords i tried that in Google News offer hundreds of relevant on target links.

I will certainly check back till they "settle", but at present it aint looking good.

Disappointed?... yep. I was really hoping they could do enuff to get back their own forum. At the moment the major change I see is the new logo.

Opportunity lost? OK II'd reserve my last opinions until a week or two after their official launch... But at the moment, despite all their press release spin AV still don't get it