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...Another class of search engines that we find beyond the top four are the retro-engines, or search engines that were at the top of their game in the '90s like Altavista and Lycos. These engines are the Internet equivalent of classic rock and oldies radio stations that pepper the airwaves. Demographic profiles of these search engines reveal that most users are in the 35 to 44 age category, most likely users that began using these engines in their heyday and maintained their loyalty...
...comeback. Yahoo bought Inktomi, a top-flight algorithmic search engine, in March for $235 million. In October it swallowed Overture, which specializes in so-called paid search (we'll get to that later), for $1.63 billion--while Overture was itself in the middle of digesting two recent acquisitions, AltaVista and AlltheWeb. The plan, as near as anybody outside Yahoo can make out, is to stitch all those disparate organizations into one huge Frankenstein's monster of a search engine that will strike terror into the hearts of all who behold it. "I think search is clearly among our company...
...size of 18-wheelers in 1977, when the King "died"; the World Wide Web was 15 years in the future. Today is his 68th birthday, and if he were to type "Elvis Presley" into a search engine, he would find 794,000 links on Google, 872,589 on AltaVista. That's about 856,000 more than my name elicits, and I've kept pretty busy the past 25 years with the writing thing. The Hillbilly Cat has taken it easy since his supposed demise...
...some often chronicled setbacks lately, losing hundreds of millions in the dotcom collapse. But GoTo, based in Pasadena, Calif., looks like a winner. GoTo's sponsored searches are ubiquitous. Along with the action on its own site, GoTo powers searches on most other major engines, including AOL, AltaVista, Lycos and MSN. GoTo's stock has quadrupled in a year, and in a punishing investment market the company raised an additional $60 million in funding last week...
...general search engines, don't write them off just yet. AltaVista last month unveiled search and retrieval software that can handle more than 200 different file formats on company intranets. Over the past few weeks, Google has begun indexing text held in Adobe's popular Portable Document Format (pdf) and has added five years' worth of postings on the Usenet discussion group network, plus a five-language webpage translation service and a search facility for more than 150 million images. The San Francisco company says it plans to float a share offering before the end of the year, though with...