LONDON - UK Net Guide has bought LookSmart's UK directory in a deal worth six figures.
UK Net Guide purchased a URL redirect so that visitors to looksmart.co.uk will now be redirected to UK Directory. Paul Mead, head of sales at UK Net Guide, said that they signed the deal to take advantage of LookSmart's much bigger database and established UK user base. 'There has been a definite movement in the market towards search-based technology with many major brand portals moving into the market and snapping at Google's heels,' he said. 'The LookSmart deal and its relaunch as UK Directory demonstrates our commitment to the philosophy of using human editors to guide users to the most relevant sites. Our directory-based model allows the targeting of very specific categories ensuring maximum ROI.' "
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine: "Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine
By Chris Sherman, Associate EditorFebruary 18, 2004 "(February 18 2004) US Yahoo! is no longer using the Google database for its default search results. Instead it is presenting results from a database gathered by Yahoo! Search Technology, which has results from the Inktomi search engine at its core.
Yahoo! has apparently also learned from the search teams it acquired when buying Overture -- i.e. the teams behind the AltaVista and AlltheWeb search engines -- although the three search engines have not been merged into one -- at least not yet.
Search Engine Watch reports that the Yahoo! search engine will index the full text of web pages, up to a 500K limit. In comparison Google will index no more than 101K.
The Yahoo! search engine does, like Google, also include PDF and Microsoft Office documents. Like Inktomi before it, the Yahoo! search engine, will index the keywords metatag. To what extent this information influence the ranking of pages is unknown, but the effect is probably small.
To search the new search engine more easily, go to the Yahoo! Search page. Yahoo's image search continues to be powered by Google, although we expect it to be replaced by the AlltheWeb index search engine in due time...
The death of AltaVista and AlltheWeb: AltaVista bites the dust
(April 1 2004) Yahoo! has now pulled the plug on the the AltaVista search engine. The AltaVista search site is from now on powered by Yahoo's new search technology.
This follows a similar move regarding the AlltheWeb search engine and site.
Yahoo! has apparently decided to keep the AltaVista and AlltheWeb brands for the time being, using them to explore alternative interfaces and ways of presenting search results. AltaVista was once a pioneer in the development of advanced search engine technology, and was one of the dominating search sites before the rise of Google
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