When will Yahoo power Altavista?

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When will Yahoo power Altavista?

Seems like yesterday it was the other way round

spaidermen

3:30 pm on Mar 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Remember guys when Yahoo! was powered by Altavista?
I understand that sooner or later the situation will be completely reversed. That's amazing!
Anyone knows when this will happen? Tim?

2_much

5:54 pm on Mar 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

My understanding is that Yahoo is already powering Altavista. They are using Yahoo's database, but applying a few changes to the ranking algo so the results are more geared to Altavista's users, as they have different demographics.

spaidermen

8:58 am on Mar 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

That's a bit dodgy... so, it's like, white educated older men get different serps than, say young single mothers? Which kind of algo can decide what's best for a particular kind of user? I can't imagine how results could differ i this way. Anyway I've performed some searches and serps are so different that I can't find signs of Altavista being powered by Yahoo yet. Also I would expect a press release sooner or later

spaidermen

12:56 pm on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

What about old PFI? Will my PFI pages get into Yahoo! new index?

Tim

3:48 pm on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

It is still the Altavista Technology powering Altavista. Will let you know when there is a change. We will be differentiating the search results between Yahoo, ATW and AV.
Tim

spaidermen

4:09 pm on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

So what about this email from Infospider?
(the CAPS are in the original)
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[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 3:12 pm (utc) on Mar. 31, 2004]
[edit reason] no email quotes allowed on WebmasterWorld - see tos [/edit]

crobb305

6:29 pm on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yep. I got the same email. Seems like miscommunication going on at Yahoo. Does anyone there know whats going on? what a mess.

Tim

6:58 pm on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

It will not be changing today so dont hold your breath... We know what is going on don't worry. :-) Will post here as soon as it switches as I said in the previous post.
Tim

DaveN

1:33 am on Mar 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thanks again Tim for keeping us informed.

Hope someone got a slap at infospider for jumping the gun.
DaveN

spaidermen

7:49 am on Mar 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

If it didn't happen March 30, when?

Tim

3:08 pm on Mar 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

Well I am not going to jump the gun like Infospider did. I will post here as soon as it has switched.
Tim

spaidermen

3:23 pm on Mar 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

Maybe offtopic, but Lycos seems to have switched already as of today

webmktg

7:40 am on Apr 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

Altavista is now using Yahoo database.

spaidermen

7:58 am on Apr 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

Are you jumping the gun or is it April fools day?

Tim

1:51 pm on Apr 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

No it switched. I assumed you saw WG's post on the front page.
Tim