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ATW was my SE of choice and had been for the last year. I will really miss it.
Alltheweb was one of my preffered search engines.
It was a good tools go see linkpopularity.
Results are good: there are still duplicate/mirro sites.
Sorry to see it go :(
Craig
Yahoo - hang your head in shame!
ATW has been a top SE sometime late 2002, and it was essentially dead when the Norwegians sold it to Overture.
Since then the tech didn't get developed further, the index got stale, the integration with Altavista started. We all knew what was coming.
And, seriously, anybody really thought Yahoo would maintain and actively develop two or three search engines simultaneously?
It's about time that Yahoo did something with ATW.
Looks like we are losing Altavista too.
Am I missing something or does this just seem like a big waste of money on Yahoo's part?
Yahoo is interested in building a powerful search engine, not keeping a bunch of weakling branches hanging around that .01% of people use. Yahoo isn't at the point of being that powerful search engine of their dreams yet, but consolidating their assets is underway.
Yes, if all the best things about All the Web were to never be seen again in Yahooland, that would be bad, but at this point that a pretty lame assumption.
Sid
Google
Yahoo
MSN
Is there any other independent search company that is genuinely still in the race?
..but still sad that it happend :(
I fear that here comes the monetisation of the web in such a way that it's gonna reduce the field a few superaffiliates whitelabelling to death, major corporations - bidding on brand terms, and those that can work the balance sheet for PPC campaigns, which could be individuals or small businesses.
The difference will be, if you error out on any of your campaign planning, you'll be paying for it, and you won't be told that you're spending your money either ....just..."good news, your account is depleted".
As for content, you can kiss that goodbye at least in the SE results . But then if anyone browses with Javascript disabled (and I do recommend it for a trip down memory lane) you'll get the impression that most companies don't seem to care how their pages are rendered in anything other than IE6.
Glyn.
You forgot and with flash disabled.....
Really liked your point. No SE values the accesibility
This is a stupid question probably, but if I remember correctly, Yahoo paid pretty good money for FAST and AlltheWeb. After all that, why did they just essentially pull the plug on it?
They were blocking Microsoft from getting a half ways decent search engine and making them develop their own. Capitalism at its finest.
Very sorry to see it go.
Yahoo! (Mike) why not just be honest about the whole thing and redirect alltheweb.com -> yahoo.com?
Any bets on how long before AltaVista gets the last nail in it's coffin? Hate to see that, too, but AV sealed it's own fate a couple years ago. Can't blame it's demise on Yahoo.
Yahoo is interested in building a powerful search engine, not keeping a bunch of weakling branches hanging around that .01% of people use.
umm...interesting worldview.
seasalt
Yahoo is interested in building a powerful search engine, not keeping a bunch of weakling branches hanging around that .01% of people use.
What happened to variety is the spice of life.
I wonder if you are ranking well in yahoo? call me cynical but all the people singing Yahoo's praise to begin with were stating we need more variety than just Google. Now Yahoo is trying to do the same and take over all the serps I don't read this point of view from Yahoo's supporters much.
A real shame people can't give unbiased views on ww. Instead of I am doing well in Yahoo so it's obviously great.
That was certainly part of it, but there was much more to it then that. I know everyone considers Y! Search to be nothing more than Ink, but that really isn't the case. Regardless of whether or not they had market share, AV and ATW both have unique technology (and many patents)that is quite valuable.
Over time, I'm confident we will see that technology integrated into the new Y! Search.
Over time, I'm confident we will see that technology integrated into the new Y! Search.
Hope so WebGuerrilla because it needs it, ATW results are or were better than Y! Search.
Also wonder with Yahoo buying Kelkoo, Kelkoo will keep it's link on this page,
[google.com...]
The only reason why it ranks well in Google. Wonder how much a pr10 link on Google costs. Yahoo say about £250 million. Wonder how quick that money could be wiped out, because the Kelkoo technology isn't worth 1 million let alone 250.
Its possible alltheweb could be ressurected under a different company if this is correct.
Let's hope Y! do use ATW technology in Y Search; they'd be fools not to put it in the the mix.
Somebody asked about ATW use in the UK. To be honest, outside of the Webmaaster/SEo community, it's unheard of by consumers.
Of course they power Lycos results, for what that's worth.
Interesting times indeed, with the Kelkoo and InfoSpace/Switchboard deals...
Wonder when Kelkoo will switch from Google to Overture? They switched away from Espotting to Google last year. Can't imagine they will want keep on sharing click revenue with Google now...
I guess I'll add my voice to the general outcry. Alltheweb had good results. Tim, are you reading this?
Exactly, let hope the search engine market doesn't go the way of the US motor industry, with just 2 main players.
Am I the only one who thinks this makes the Internet a much more bland place.
The good thing with Google is they create new software, Yahoo seems to like buying and destroying them.
