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I am curious to see that next week. What they really need, is a big marketing effort, now that they got rid of overly agressive advertising.
I've got a few too many egss in just one basket right now so I'll be cheering if they can put together a viable engine again.
scooter was hitting my pages too these days.
In general my Scooter spider hits are about 1/8th of the Googlebot hits.
Scooter tends to need a lot of visits to catch these hits though.
Also had scooter-3.2.SFO and scooter-3.2.XX0 do some infrequent visiting.
Craig
[news.com.com...]
- ad-free home page
- fresher search results
with quite some new features:
- news - also regional
- refine search - based on natural-language questions
I hope they manage to clean up their page design and cut down on the number of sponsored links at the top of the page.
Perhaps the phoenix will once again rise from the ashes, but I don't think I'll hold my breath! I'm afraid this may be a case of much too little ... way too late. We'll see though. It would be nice if one more engine could give Google a run for their money! MSN just isn't cutting it and Fast can't seem to get a foothold in the market in any meaningful way.
I wonder how long Google can stay on the crest of the wave?
I've felt for a while that the search engine that gets search refinements down in a way that the non-techie can easily use will have a big handle on the future. After all, imagine what search will be like when the web doubles again, and beyond.
How will you find what you want when there are 10 billion pages in the index?
The rest is all about marketing. Good luck AltaVista!
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[edited by: Macguru at 2:40 pm (utc) on Nov. 9, 2002]
How true.
A tip for AV...if you are listening:
SE promotion is about self promotion.
Don't get into a war with the folks who will be promoting you. Find the "neighborhoods" that are promoters and algo accordingly.
"We're focusing on the power of precision--the power to search the infinite Web and the precision to find the right results,"
Now lets hear that loud and clear!
I wish them all the best and hope we can all start putting our eggs in more than one basket. Even if there where 2 major se's it would make running a website a lot less stressfull.
I agre with what chiyo was saying, it certainly does seam as if they are rolling out a Google clone. I hope they dont, I hope they keep it simple and uncluttered but they still need to show them selves as unique.
I think that a lot of the users then have lost are lost forever. They will really need to concentrate on getting new users. The people who went to Google from AV are very unlikely to return. AV needs to try and atract a new breed of users. Posibly run a massive brand awareness campaigne similar to the ones that have been run by lycos.
Also from yesterday to today, they added 10% more of site's my pages to their index.
Keep it going! Hasta la Vista!
Seems to me that the algo should be the priority. Givent that virtually no one ever searches below a limit of, say, 100 results for just about any search term, size of index ought to take second place to quality of the returned results, regardless of their number. You don't need 3 billion URLs in your live index to return 30 quality results for most areas.
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