GoodBye AltaVista - Now Using The Yahoo Database

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Yahoo, Altavista y Alltheweb: tres en
uno

Yahoo, Altavista y Alltheweb: tres en
uno 08/30/2004 02:03 PM

AltaVista gives in to Overture

AltaVista gives in to Overture 02/19/2003 07:46 AM
He also denied the move was to pre-empt the rising challenge of 'independent' search market leader Google, which launched its paid-for product AdWords last ...

Altavista - Launches New Look

Altavista - Launches New Look 11/09/2002 05:35 PM
Alta's new look was unmasked today. The old brown bag yellow is replaced with a zippy new pastel blue with a radical new logo. What an improvement!

WWW-Search-AltaVista-2.13

WWW-Search-AltaVista-2.13 12/16/2003 10:10 AM

Overture To Buy AltaVista

Overture To Buy AltaVista 02/18/2003 08:23 PM
The acquisition of AltaVista will solve this problem and make the company more competitive, especially when fighting for deals against Google. ...

Overture buying Altavista

Overture buying Altavista 02/19/2003 01:33 AM
A co-worker just pointed it out. I'm not sure why, but I'm amused. I guess it's just more of the same--consolidation in the search and paid listings businesses. Anyone wanna guess who's gonna be next?...

Overture has deal to buy AltaVista

Overture has deal to buy AltaVista 02/19/2003 01:33 AM
The move positions Overture to battle on all fronts with Google, which has become the leading search engine in terms of audience. ...

AlltheWeb Add URL Mimics Altavista

AlltheWeb Add URL Mimics Altavista 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
One and the same. Confirmed by Inktomi/ATW/Overture/Yahoo search guru Tim Mayer.

AltaVista Prisma - New Features

AltaVista Prisma - New Features 07/04/2002 04:22 AM
Altavista has introduced a new set of search features.

Overture buys AltaVista

Overture buys AltaVista 02/19/2003 11:54 AM
Before the days of Google's supremacy, AltaVista was the most popular search engine around, with more than 65 million users per month, and 58 search technology ...

Overture Buys Altavista

Overture Buys Altavista 02/19/2003 12:32 AM
Overture is to buy Alta Vista for $140 million.

AltaVista Launches 'Prisma'

AltaVista Launches 'Prisma' 07/02/2002 10:57 AM

Overture to buy AltaVista for $140
million

Overture to buy AltaVista for $140
million 02/18/2003 09:28 PM
The company has faced increased competition from popular upstarts such as Google Inc., and in November it revamped its service with new search tools for ...

CMGI sells off AltaVista

CMGI sells off AltaVista 02/19/2003 08:48 AM
Meanwhile, Internet users began to gravitate toward Google, a rival service with enhancements that provided more accurate search results. ...

AltaVista and Overture Do a Deal

AltaVista and Overture Do a Deal 06/07/2002 07:44 AM
"Overture will provide its top three editorially reviewed search results under the heading Products and Services..."

Goodbye, Bob ...

Goodbye, Bob ... 04/30/2004 05:01 AM
A glowing tribute honoring Bob Edwards on his final day as anchor at NPR's "Morning Edition" ... from the bastards people who fired reassigned him in the first place. (Sorry to start your Friday on a downer.)

Goodbye 747?

Goodbye 747? 08/15/2004 11:20 AM

Is this old bird about to get its wings clipped?: The venerable 747 is finding itself less and less popular these days.

...airlines don't like the 747's fuel bills. It burns about 3,200 gallons of fuel per flight hour, about one-third more than the Boeing 777 [...] Air carriers also have a hard time finding 400-plus paying passengers to fill flights.

This is too bad, as the 747 is a majestic plane. I still remember having to walk underneath one of them to get to a customs shuttle when returned from New Zealand once — it was just breathtaking how big the thing was.

Sadly, The popularity stats are sobering.

...airlines fly 635 of the jumbos in passenger service, down 21% from the peak year of 1997...

The number of U.S. carriers flying the bulbous-nosed giant has fallen to two: United and Northwest. There were eight as recently as 1990. The number of daily domestic flights on the 747 has dropped to just 10, down from a peak of 102 a quarter of a century ago, Back says.

While the cargo version remains popular, airlines haven't ordered a passenger version of the 747 since November 2002.

And what does this mean for the future of the Airb us A3XX? That plane is designed to seat 555 people. Singapore Airlines ju st ordered 16 of them.

While the A3XX is massive, the thing that made the 747 look big was the "hump" over the front of the plane. (I remember an old joke about why the hump was there: because the pilots had to sit on their wallets — it was funny when I was seven.) But if you look closely at the A3XX, it is a true two-story plane all the way down the fuselage, while the 747 just had an upperdeck towards the front, under the hump.

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Hello GDS, Goodbye YDS

Hello GDS, Goodbye YDS 03/14/2005 05:02 PM
Finally there's a desktop search product that's actually useful to me: Google Desktop. I had tried the previous version of GDS a bit, as well as the company dog food (Yahoo Desktop Search or YDS). But both lacked the ability to search the most important asset on my computer: my e-mail archive. Being one who does not use Outlook, that meant I was on my own until now. The latest GDS release has the ability to index Thunderbird mailboxes....

Firebird Database Remote Database Name
Overflow

Firebird Database Remote Database Name
Overflow 06/01/2004 03:27 PM
Aviram Jenik (Jun 01 2004)

Overture Buys AltaVista for $140 Million

Overture Buys AltaVista for $140 Million 02/19/2003 04:38 AM
After entering the paid-search market nearly a year ago, Google quickly became the leader and lured away Overture partners EarthLink, Ask Jeeves and AOL. ...

Altavista Updates Features - Prisma

Altavista Updates Features - Prisma 07/03/2002 02:04 AM
"...the new service produces up to 12 sub- groups of results when a given term is entered in the search engine..."

AltaVista sold at staggering $2bn loss

AltaVista sold at staggering $2bn loss 02/19/2003 06:05 PM
But it has since reverted to being a pure search engine and, in the process, has lost ground in that arena to rivals such as Google. ...

Internet veteran AltaVista sold off

Internet veteran AltaVista sold off 02/18/2003 09:28 PM
AltaVista was once the most visited search engine on the internet, but failed to keep up with old-time rivals like Yahoo and especially upstarts like Google ...

CMGI to sell AltaVista for $140M

CMGI to sell AltaVista for $140M 02/19/2003 12:54 PM
Buying AltaVista will put Overture in competition with other search services that rank web sites by relevancy, including Google Inc., Ask Jeeves Inc. ...

Overture Services to Buy AltaVista for
$140 Million

Overture Services to Buy AltaVista for
$140 Million 02/19/2003 01:33 AM
The move positions Overture to battle on all fronts with Google, which has become the leading search engine in terms of audience. ...

Internet veteran AltaVista sold off -
BBC .

Internet veteran AltaVista sold off -
BBC . 02/19/2003 02:34 AM
AltaVista was once the most visited search engine on the internet, but failed to keep up with rivals such as Yahoo and Google, which is now the web's search ...

Overture to Buy Web-Search Pioneer
AltaVista

Overture to Buy Web-Search Pioneer
AltaVista 02/18/2003 08:23 PM
AltaVista, Palo Alto, Calif., was an early search leader but saw its leading position crumble with the emergence of sites like Google Inc. ...

Former AltaVista Employee Charged with
Hacking

Former AltaVista Employee Charged with
Hacking 07/12/2004 07:27 AM
Now a employee of MSN. "Microsoft officials confirmed yesterday that Laurent Chavet works for the company, but they would not specify his assignment."

Overture falls 21% after agreement to
buy AltaVista

Overture falls 21% after agreement to
buy AltaVista 02/20/2003 03:27 AM
Web sites listed. That could help Overture compete with rival search-engines such as Google Inc., analysts said. Overture also will ...

AltaVista Hacker Works on MSN Search

AltaVista Hacker Works on MSN Search 07/09/2004 04:42 PM
A man charged with hacking into AltaVista two years ago to steal proprietary search-engine technology works at Microsoft on the MSN Search team, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Goodbye Napoli

Goodbye Napoli 06/06/2004 04:44 AM

I'm about to leave Naples. I had a wonderful time. The total chaos of the city, the extremely warm and interesting people, the great food and the wonderful weather was just delightful. I'm sure I only scratched the surface, but I really enjoyed the Napolitan style. I only wish I could speak Italian.

I was also excited to meet all of the interesting people and the level of civil activism that could easily be sparked into an even more vibrant blogging community.

One thing that was confusing to me was that everyone says "Naples" when they're speaking in English. Why don't they say "Napoli"? Dean Martin says "Napoli", why do even the Italians say "Naples". Strange. In Japanese, we say "Napoli", "Torino" and "Milano" not, Naples, Turin and Milan.

I'm off in a few minutes for the UK. Look forward to meeting the folks there.

Special thanks to Derrick and his hosts for letting me use their place!

goodbye aaron

goodbye aaron 09/09/2004 01:49 AM
i don't know why we have to lose the good ones

Firefox - Say Goodbye (again) to Pop-Ups

Firefox - Say Goodbye (again) to Pop-Ups 04/06/2005 11:47 AM
A lot of people have been reporting a new breed of pop-ups on the web. This increasing menace is rooted in the pop-up capabilities of plug-ins like flash and Java. If you're seeing pop-ups and pop-unders, you're probably visiting sites that have flash or other plug-ins and those plug-ins are being exploited by advertisers to abuse you with annoying pop-ups and pop-unders.

Firefox has the capability to disable these pop-ups but it wasn't enabled by default in Firefox 1.0 because we had concerns about websites that rely on plug-in triggered pop-ups for legitimate functionality. Give that these pop-ups and pop-unders have really started to spread on the web, we're testing a quick patch that enables the Firefox pref to block them.

News source: Asa Dotzler's (Mozilla Developer) Blog

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Goodbye San Mateo

Goodbye San Mateo 12/24/2004 01:10 PM
Six Apart moved into our new offices today, and though he doesn't blog often, he gets it right when he does: Ben covers my thoughts exactly. I'll be spending the next week with family and friends, but today I want to say happy hoildays to all my friends at Six...

Say Goodbye to TechTV

Say Goodbye to TechTV 05/07/2004 05:42 PM
As reported by Mr. Laporte on his blog, TechTV laid off 285 workers yesterday as part of its acquisition by G4, a subsidiary of Comcast. All the employees were given 60 days notice and 100 of the existing jobs will be posted for those willing to relocate to LA. No word on which shows will survive or which hosts will be kept on.

Goodbye, Tucker

Goodbye, Tucker 01/05/2005 10:06 PM
It has been a depressing week for Democrats. Shirley Chisholm and Bob Matsui died over the weekend. A slew of new Republican lawmakers were sworn in Tuesday. John Kerry announced Wednesday that he won't participate in any formal protests against the presidential voting by electors from Ohio. Alberto Gonzales will begin his road to confirmation as attorney general Thursday. And if all that's not enough, Trent Lott has announced that a singer from "The Lawrence Welk Show" will perform John Ashcroft's "Let the Eagle Soar" at George W. Bush's inauguration.

Goodbye Romania

Goodbye Romania 09/17/2004 11:42 PM
Warning - by visiting this site, you will destroy it. Each visit will remove one pixel from these photographs. However, we will tell you a story. It's a story about Romania, which is to say, it's a story about change.

Goodbye to Privacy

Goodbye to Privacy 04/09/2005 08:54 PM
In the past five years, what most of us only recently thought of as "nobody's business" has become the big business of everybody's business.

Goodbye 2004

Goodbye 2004 12/31/2004 08:53 PM

Well, this will probably be the last entry of 2004. This year we posted 1,530 entries and you posted 2,962 (!) comments. As the comment count should verify, Gadgetopia went buckwild this year.

According to Google Adsense, we push about 100,000 page views a month to the HTML version (and they have to parse JavaScript to register with AdSense, so all of those are likely human visitors), and God only knows how many visits to the RSS feed. Last time I did some informal stats, RSS got 75% of the traffic, so figure 300,000 RSS requests.

Search engine saturation has remained accidentally fantastic. We get visited by the Googlebot something on the order of 300 times every day. Thanks to everyone who has contribued to our PageRank (we bumped from a five to a six sometime this year. How far can seven be?)

At any rate, thanks for a great year. The goal has always been 5,000 posts, and we're about 70% of the way there, so stay tuned.

My New Years resolution for Gadgetopia? A new design. Jonathan has graciously offered to share his, and I may take him up on it.

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