AltaVista
AltaVista is one of the oldest and most well-known search engines. It was launched in
December 1995. It was owned by Digital, then run by Compaq (which purchased Digital
in 1998), then spun off into a separate company, which is now controlled by CMGI. Over
the years it has lost its prominent position to Yahoo and Google.
George McMillan is the CEO of CMGI, Inc. that owns AltaVista. According to the last
financial report (fiscal 2001) by parent company CMGI, the "search and portals" division
of the company, of which the majority comprises AltaVista's operations, generated $37
million in revenue with an operating loss of $72.7 million.
In March 2002 AltaVista has launched its new release of Enterprise Search v2.0 software
that it sells to the Enterprise search market, similar to Inktomi and Verity. AltaVista
recently launched important freshness and relevancy initiatives, crawling key areas of the
Internet four times per day and increasing relevancy by 40%.
AltaVista also executed an agreement pursuant to which Overture Services, Inc. will
distribute its 'Pay-For-Performance' search listings on AltaVista's North American sites.
The companies signed similar agreements in both Germany and the U.K. during the third
quarter. Under the terms of these agreements, AltaVista and Overture will share the
revenue resulting from user click-throughs to Overture's customers' Web sites.
AltaVista is one of the oldest and most well-known search engines. It was launched in
December 1995. It was owned by Digital, then run by Compaq (which purchased Digital
in 1998), then spun off into a separate company, which is now controlled by CMGI. Over
the years it has lost its prominent position to Yahoo and Google.
George McMillan is the CEO of CMGI, Inc. that owns AltaVista. According to the last
financial report (fiscal 2001) by parent company CMGI, the "search and portals" division
of the company, of which the majority comprises AltaVista's operations, generated $37
million in revenue with an operating loss of $72.7 million.
In March 2002 AltaVista has launched its new release of Enterprise Search v2.0 software
that it sells to the Enterprise search market, similar to Inktomi and Verity. AltaVista
recently launched important freshness and relevancy initiatives, crawling key areas of the
Internet four times per day and increasing relevancy by 40%.
AltaVista also executed an agreement pursuant to which Overture Services, Inc. will
distribute its 'Pay-For-Performance' search listings on AltaVista's North American sites.
The companies signed similar agreements in both Germany and the U.K. during the third
quarter. Under the terms of these agreements, AltaVista and Overture will share the
revenue resulting from user click-throughs to Overture's customers' Web sites.
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