Opentext and Altavista Screenshots

Can anyone remember? Back in 1996 ...

[Fischerlaender]

For an article I'm writing for a german internet magazine I'm looking for a screenshot of the ancient search engine called Opentext. Especially I'm interested in a screenshot from the summer of 96 (no, not the summer of 69 *g*), where one can see how Opentext handled the display of its "Preferred Listings".

If anyone has a screenshot of Altavista's famous "paid listing" results from spring 1999, I would also be interested to get it.

For those of you who are curious: It's an article about Google Adwords and how it all started.

Thank you in advance.

[msgraph]

Give the WayBack Machine a try

[archive.org...]

[Fischerlaender]

Of course this is what I tried before posting, but without success. I think I should have mentioned that in my original posting.

[aek]

This is the best I could come up with.

[gateway.library.uiuc.edu...]

[AWillemsen]

You can also try:

[masterstech-home.com...]

(ignore the header and footer)

[bugsoft.com...]

[gemini.lib.purdue.edu...]

[tobb.org.tr...]

You can try searching for "Open Text Index" (with the quotes) on Google - I'm sure there are more examples.

Also, you could try contacting Open Text.....

Cheers,

Andrew

[amznVibe]

maybe [answers.google.com...] could help you (would be ironic though)

[andrewg]

You should probably try to track down Open Text founders - they are probably the most direct source of this information.

You may find this information difficult to track down. If you do track it down and publish the info, expect calls from lawyers involved in a certain "case" relating to PPC patents :)

[jackjm]

[net.cs.pku.edu.cn...]
something like www.archive.org
more details are avilable at [net.cs.pku.edu.cn...]

[4serendipity]

I had no problems pulling up altavista screens from 1996 at archive.org.

Of course I had to use the engine's old URL:

[altavista.digital.com...]

[Fischerlaender]

Thank you very much for your reply. It's easy to get the Altavista homepage from 1996 via archive.org, but I had no chance to find some SERPs. If anyone knows a query that is archived at archive.org I would appreciate to find it.

[4serendipity]

I was able to find a few images of altavista searches in the alexa archive.

Here is one:
[web.archive.org...]

I wasn't, however, able to see one with the paid listings.

You might want to run a few searches using the advanced search form at [web.archive.org...] and see what you get.

[Fischerlaender]

With the help of the advanced archive.org search features I was able to find an official AV screenshot:
[web.archive.org...]

Thank you all very much for your replies.