A sad story of an Internet Search Giant

Re:A sad story of an Internet Search Giant by shortformblog on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @09:11AM (#3792742)

But … wait. They didn't acquire Altavista until 2003, when it was already dead in the water.

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Re:A sad story of an Internet Search Giant by jitbit on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @09:24AM (#3792775)

Yep, 2003, my bad... But Yahoo still dominated the search anyways. According to December 1999 stats they had 56% market share (while nearest competitor - Excite - had 11%, Google was <1%)

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Re:A sad story of an Internet Search Giant by damian2000 on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @09:19AM (#3792762)

yeah that's what I thought - it seems like they were fairly close to Yahoo before 2003 though ... providing their search results from 1996.

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