AltaVista Changes Its Colors
Date: 1999-07-15 Source: InternetNews.com
Fresh off its acquisition by CMGI Inc., AltaVista has a slew of plans to propel the search engine into Internet fame and glory, including switching from search engine to personalized portal and free ISP. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Many Changes At AltaVista
Date: 1999-07-06 Source: Search Engine Watch
It was a busy month for AltaVista -- a new owner, a new direction, new paid links auction and a freshness guarantee were among the major developments for the service. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AltaVista deal opens new horizons for CMGI
Date: 1999-06-30 Source: Red Herring
CMGI dusted off the fading AltaVista brand Tuesday and prepared to give it a fresh coat of paint, seeing the pioneer Web-search site as fuel for future profits and revenues of its portfolio of Internet companies. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AltaVista Revamps Services
Date: 1999-06-28 Source: InternetNews.com
While rumored to be on the selling block portal site AltaVista Co. Monday launched a series of new services for visitors and announced $5 million worth of promotions. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
CMGI may seek stability through portal strategy
Date: 1999-06-24 Source: Red Herring
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that CMGI is in talks with Compaq Computer to acquire the company's AltaVista Web properties, adding to speculation that CMGI is ready to move in a new direction. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AltaVista Launches Paid Listings
Date: 1999-05-04 Source: Search Engine Watch
So it finally happened. One of the major search engines, AltaVista, followed GoTo.com's lead and introduced paid listings in April. Always a controversial idea, AltaVista did itself no favors through the inept way it launched the paid listings program. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Father Of AltaVista Resigns
Date: 1999-05-04 Source: Search Engine Watch
Monier is very much the father of the AltaVista search service. The idea of building a large search engine came up during a lunchtime conversation between Monier and two other Digital employees in spring 1995. Monier then led the team that built AltaVista, which debuted in December of that year and set a new standard for indexing the web. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Zip2 no road map to AltaVista strategy
Date: 1999-02-16 Source: Red Herring
For now, AltaVista's vision seems similarly scattered. While the Zip2 acquisition served to bolster the company's back-end capabilities, AltaVista doesn't seem singlemindedly bent on acquiring all the pieces of technology needed to power rich Web sites. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AltaVista To Go Public, Partner With Microsoft
Date: 1999-02-02 Source: Search Engine Watch
Compaq acquired the AltaVista search service when it purchased Digital Equipment last year, and AltaVista's future has been in limbo since then. That came to an end last week, with the announcement that AltaVista has been spun off into the AltaVista Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Compaq. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Compaq sets AltaVista spinoff in motion
Date: 1999-01-26 Source: Red Herring
Compaq announced Tuesday that it would turn its search engine AltaVista into an independent company, prepare it for a public offering, and partner with Microsoft to use Hotmail as an email and instant messaging platform. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Major Enhancements to AltaVista Canada
Date: 1999-01-19 Source: InternetNews.com
Marking its first anniversary, AltaVista Canada has introduced two major new specialty indexes for Canadian Internet users--Canadian News Index and Canadian Government Index. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AltaVista Northern Europe Looks Gone For Good
Date: 1998-11-04 Source: Search Engine Watch
I'm interpreting this to mean that AltaVista isn't going to renew the mirror site arrangement with Telia, either because AltaVista has changed its strategy, or perhaps -- as AltaVista's support staff messaged one reader -- because Telia decided to no longer partner with AltaVista. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AltaVista Gets a Makeover
Date: 1998-10-13 Source: InternetNews.com
Web portal AltaVista took a page from the books of its competitors by unveiling a new version of its Internet guide organized into channels. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AltaVista To Buy altavista.com Domain
Date: 1998-08-04 Source: Search Engine Watch
When AltaVista debuted in December 1995, apparently no one thought it was a problem that another company had the domain name altavista.com. That blunder looks to cost Compaq $3.3 million dollars. It has reportedly worked out a deal to purchase the name. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AltaVista's Imperfect Mirrors
Date: 1998-03-31 Source: Search Engine Watch
AltaVista maintains a network of mirror sites outside the United States. These are meant to be identical copies of the main AltaVista index, but in fact, all but one of the mirrors list fewer pages than the main service. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AltaVista Changes Direction
Date: 1998-03-03 Source: Search Engine Watch
Over the past year, search services such as Excite, Yahoo and Lycos have added free e-mail, chat, discussion areas and other features designed to help capture their audiences. The moves were meant to turn the services into destinations, rather than web transit points. Now AltaVista is heading in a similar direction. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AltaVista Users to Get Free E-Mail
Date: 1998-02-10 Source: InternetNews.com
Digital announced today it will provide a free e-mail service to users of its AltaVista Search Service in conjunction with e-mail technology and solutions provider iName. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
