AV Has a new look

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[jimmykav]

The new look is cleaner and more presentable but the serps are still not as releveant as they should be...

[Air]

Kinda looks like ODP, but a little busier.

[Robert Charlton]

New look? What am I missing? I can't see any difference.

[Brett_Tabke]

They've cut the home page noise factor in half.

[rogerd]

Continued de-portalizing, I guess...

[Crazy_Fool]

UK users can now log on directly to altavista.com without being automatically redirected to uk.altavista.com

[mack]

well i am a Uk user and i am still typing "www.altavista.com" and getting "uk.altavista.com" with the "world" checked go in through "altavista.co.uk" you get the same page but with the "uk" checked.

[oLeon]

I canīt see the new look on AV.com but on AV.de: very clear and...yes no numbers to see! No sign of "### results found" and only 10 pages to click further i.e. 100 results.

hmmm...and the results are the same as before - just to ignore AV in Germany!

[FreeBee]

> UK users can now log on directly to altavista.com

Negative - still got a redirect this evening.

> home page noise factor in half.

Sure - but the SERP's seem to require a heap more scrolling (cool if you paid Overture, uncool if the budget and SEO skills are lacking :( )

[WebGuerrilla]

I'm with Robert on this one. I'm not seeing anything from I've been seeing for several months. (other than the preloaded search box thing they added after 9-11)

[Crazy_Fool]

> UK users can now log on directly to altavista.com
Negative - still got a redirect this evening.

maybe they've just slipped up and omitted some UK IPs from their auto-redirection. I'm with telewest and not being redirected any more. Freeserve redirects as before. BT redirects sometimes but not all the time. I've got a couple of other numbers from NetKonnect which don't redirect when they did before.

[seth_wilde]

The biggest change that I can find is that they took the banner of the top of the page.... other than that they've added a few links and removed a few

Current AV [av.com]
Sept 02 2001 Av [web.archive.org]

other historical AV's
October 1996 [web.archive.org]
June 1997 [web.archive.org]
December 1998 [web.archive.org]
Novermber 1999 [web.archive.org]

[AV_EMPLOYEE]

Actually, the old ones aren't the av site. You should go to:

[web.archive.org...]

[ggrot]

First googleguy, now AV_EMPLOYEE. We're just being graced recently!

[jimmykav]

Hi AV_EMPLOYEE
Lets up your prescence here can get things at AV moving along.....

[backus]

AV are here! First Fast actually, then Google, now AV. Hehe!!!!

[Orange]

Also noticed a table on the right of the SERPS that have what looks like featured listings - On the few search that I did, some of these were that same as the Overture paid listings, some were totally unrelated. Is this new? Any thoughts as to where these links come from?