Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about time that AltaVista got some serious support. The service began as a tech experiment at the former Digital, but through deals with Yahoo it established itself early on as the most thorough search index of the Web. Digital and then Compaq tried to capitalize on the Top 10 traffic by adding "stickier" features such as subject directories and free e-mail, but that only created opportunities for new index companies like Inktomi, and now Google, to service the established portals - even while the attempts at a fuller AltaVista site floundered. MORE...
...Crimson executive charged with running circulation is very much aware the distribution system has had trouble this year. David I. Kim '01 understands that "it's not perfect. We're aware of the problems." In order to find out where the delivery problems are concentrated, The Crimson has a Web site (http://www.thecrimson.com/delivery) where student complaints about distribution problems are compiled. According to Kim, the Web site is effective and helpful: "It makes it easier to complain, and we pass on the information to the deliverers." Still, he admits that many people complain, but don't use the Web...
Although the Web site is certainly a positive step, it has not solved the circulation problems. In fact, one of my roommates contacts the site almost every day, and yet we still do not receive the paper. Kim says the Quad represents a particular challenge for distribution. "The way the streets of Cambridge run, the logical distribution route gets to the Quad last. There is no anti-Quad bias, but if the paper is late getting out, it might not get dropped door-to-door" in the Quad Houses...
...jock" stereotype is not far off. Of the roughly 50 players shown on the team's Web site and in the Harvard Football News, over 97 percent concentrate in economics, psychology, government, sociology and environmental sciences and public policy (ESPP...