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July 09, 2004Man Accused of AltaVista Theft Working on MSN Search?
"A Kirkland man arrested last week on allegations that he stole proprietary technology from the AltaVista search engine two years ago is a Microsoft Corp. employee who has been working on the Redmond company's MSN Search initiative." Woo. "Federal authorities...
Continue reading "Man Accused of AltaVista Theft Working on MSN Search?" » August 18, 2003AltaVista Adds Toolbar
AltaVista has jumped onto the toolbar bandwagon with the addition of a new AltaVista toolbar, available from http://www.altavista.com/toolbar/default. As with most search engine toolbars, you'll need to be running IE to use it. Once you've gotten through agreeing to the...
June 16, 2003AltaVista and Case-Sensitivity
One of the differences between Altavista ( http://www.av.com) and Google is that AV's case-sensitive, which makes it more useful for some searches. I discovered last week while doing some research for an article that AV has apparently changed how it...
January 31, 2003Additional Search Options on AltaVista News
I've been using AltaVista's news search quite a bit -- http://news.altavista.com/ -- but I don't think I've mentioned some additional search options they've got available. I rectify that now. Now from the main news search page, you can tweak...
Continue reading "Additional Search Options on AltaVista News" » October 01, 2002AltaVista and URL Inclusion
Last Friday, Andrew Goodman of Traffick published a very disturbing item on his Weblog at http://www.traffick.com/ blog/default.asp . (It's the Friday,September 27 item; unfortunately there is no permanent link.) He was contacted by a person selling AltaVista's URL inclusion services....
July 03, 2002AltaFresh -- Query Recent Additions to AltaVistaJune 27, 2002Googlesque Ads in AltaVista?
I was working with AltaVista last night, and I noticed that they're now showing ads on the right side of the page. As far as I can tell from the URLs, these are Overture ads, just like the ones that...
May 08, 2002AltaVista Makes News Images Available
Search engine AltaVista ( http://www.altavista.com ) has made two announcements in regard to its multimedia search. First off, it claims that its multimedia index has grown by 73 percent. Second, they've linked the multimedia index to their news images. More...
April 10, 2002AltaVista Launches AltaVista ParaPhrase, New Crawling Initiative
Seems like the new hot thing is providing suggestions to narrow a search. Teoma trumpeted that in its new launch and now AltaVista is touting their beta test of AltaVista Paraphrase. One percent of US-based visitors to AltaVista.com will get...
Continue reading "AltaVista Launches AltaVista ParaPhrase, New Crawling Initiative" » September 18, 2001AltaVista In Shallow Dough-Dough
Before anyone asks, yes, that is a shameless ripoff of Wired's Metricom headline of July 11. Not that I think AltaVista is in danger of immediate bankruptcy (thus "shallow" instead of "deep.") But as a story on News.com reported yesterday...
May 08, 2001AltaVista Adds NY Times to Its Search Service
AltaVista announced Monday that they've added content from the New York Times to its news search service at http://news.altavista.com. The press release describes the content as"headlines and abstracts," so I would guess searching this would be searching one step down...
Continue reading "AltaVista Adds NY Times to Its Search Service" » April 16, 2001AltaVista News
AltaVista is doing some cool stuff on their home page -- but in the UK, not here! Check out http://www.altavista.co.uk/ . Enter the query cats. You'll see that the search results have thumbnail pictures to their right. AltaVista is considering...
March 29, 2001AltaVista's Babel Fish Learns New Languages
AltaVista announced yesterday that their translation engine, available at http://babelfish.altavista.com, now supports Asian language characters and offers translation of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. (Both traditional and simplified Chinese are supported.) If you're thinking, "My browser doesn't support Asian language characters,...
Continue reading "AltaVista's Babel Fish Learns New Languages" » March 19, 2001AltaVista Offers AltaVista New Zealand
AltaVista has launched AltaVista New Zealand at http://altavista.co.nz . The site indexes over 2.5 million New Zealand Web pages. This is a pretty interesting design. ...
March 15, 2001AltaVista Adds Some New News Searching
I have not seen the official announcement on this and so I'm not sure how complete this is, but there's a new type of news search at http://news.altavista.com . This appears to be searching for Moreover news only. This interface...
March 07, 2001AltaVista Makes Some Changes
Earlier this week AltaVista announced a search enhancement to their site. I got a chance to talk to Gannon Giguiere, AltaVista's Senior Director of Search Verticals, about these new changes. First off, the index is a lot bigger. Before the...
December 14, 2000AltaVista Launches Portuguese and Brazilian Sites
AltaVista Announced yesterday the launch of AltaVista Brazil ( http://www.altavistabrasil.com.br ) and AltaVista Portugal ( http://www.altavista.pt ). AltaVista Brazil will index 1.25 million pages of local content. The AltaVista Brazil site will index nearly eight million pages of local content....
Continue reading "AltaVista Launches Portuguese and Brazilian Sites" » November 14, 2000AltaVista Gets Piles O' Patents
AltaVista announced yesterday that with the recent award of four patents, they've gotten a total of 38 patents. Now, I don't get it. Maybe it's me. But considering the huge debates over patents in the Internet community (which one could...
June 14, 2000AltaVista Updates Its Babel Fish Translation Service
Search Engine AltaVista ( http://www.altavista.com ) has updated its translation service at http://babelfish.altavista.com . Now known as Babel Fish 2000, the site's added several features. For one, it now additionally translates Russian to English, French to German, and German to...
Continue reading "AltaVista Updates Its Babel Fish Translation Service" » May 03, 2000AltaVista Launching a "Raging Search"?
CNET is reporting that AltaVista is getting ready to launch an advanced search portal. The underlying search technology would be the same, but the page wouldn't have banner ads, and would be more oriented to advanced users. As the story...
April 12, 2000AltaVista Launches Italian version
AltaVista has launched an Italian version of its Web site at http://www.altavista.it/ . The site is, of course, in Italian, and claims to index about 95 percent of the Web sites in Italy. See the press release at: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000411/ca_altavis_1.html...
March 03, 2000AltaVista Launches Two More
AltaVista announced yesterday the launch of a new Dutch AltaVista site ( http://www.altavista.nl/ -- didn't I announce that a couple of weeks ago?) And AltaVista France at http://www.altavista.fr/ . AltaVista claims that the AltaVista France site has a search index...
February 18, 2000AltaVista in Dutch
AltaVista search is now available in Dutch: http://www.altavista.nl/...
February 11, 2000AltaVista Weirdness
AltaVista Weirdness: Want to see something weird? Put the following query in AltaVista ( http://www.av.com ): +travel +mountains +guide +packages +nepal Okay? Now put the same query in Google ( http://www.google.com ). You'll get about 600 results in Google and...
February 08, 2000AltaVista Multimedia
PC World has an article looking at the changes in AltaVista's multimedia index: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,15167,00.asp...
February 03, 2000Details on Altavista's new deal
Danny Sullivan has a nice little bit that explains about AltaVista's new deal -- they're not really going "open source" and they're not giving away their source code. Which is a shame because with about a zillion dollar's worth of...
February 01, 2000Big news from AltaVista
AltaVista has made two pretty big announcements today. First announcement is that they're opening up their source code. Second announcement is that they're starting an affiliate program -- you'll be able to make 3 cents for every click-through to their...
November 03, 1999Danny Sullivan Challenges AltaVista Claims
Danny Sullivan takes aim at AltaVista's new and improved claims in this column: http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/99/11-avclaims.html...
Continue reading "Danny Sullivan Challenges AltaVista Claims" » November 02, 1999AltaVista Index Getting Stale
AltaVista's index is temporarily not accepting new additions as they upgrade their technology. This means their database is stale and getting more so. Details: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1426414.html ....
August 11, 1998AltaVista Moving
AltaVista ( http://altavista.digital.com ) has finally gotten their mitts on the AltaVista domain name ( http://www.altavista.com , natch.) According to the press release, "ATI will transfer to Compaq the altavista.com URL within 30 days and notify all third parties of...
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