Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Domains

Domain: cmgi.com

Stories and comments across the archive that link to cmgi.com.

Comments · 5

  1. Founders not necessarily necessary by cwernli · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Managing Your Company To Death

    He praises companies like Oracle and Sun because the founder still runs the company

    The founder's presence is not a guarantee at all for the flourishing of a company - how many companies (ok, most of them are the usual derelict dotcoms) have evaporated into thin air in the last two years despite the founder still leading the company ?

    And what about cases like CMGI, where it would've probably a better idea to get rid of the founder (David Wetherell) a long time ago ?

    Just my $0.02...

  2. Great Discussion, But What by vergil · · Score: 4 · on Author of Archie Challenges Alta Vista Patents
    ...exactly are the patents that sparked this controversy?

    CMGI's Nov. 13, 2000 press release mentions that Altavista was awarded "four new patents for search technology" which cover:

    "proprietary search technology in the areas of identifying and eliminating duplicate pages in an index, ranking results by degrees of relevancy, data structures for searching and indexing, and 'spidering' techniques that crawl the World Wide Web and play a key role in building an index."

    I used the U.S. PTO's patent database, searched for the string "altavista" under the "assignee" field and came up with these two gems:

    6,138,113: "Method for identifying near duplicate pages in a hyperlinked database"

    and

    6,112,203: "Method for ranking documents in a hyperlinked environment using connectivity and selective content analysis"

    Has anyone found the other Altavista search engine patents in question? They might have been awarded to a different firm, then licensed to Altavista.

    Sincerely,
    Vergil
    Vergil Bushnell

  3. Re:What's really sad by SquadBoy · · Score: 3 · on Despair Suing 7,000,000 Email Users Over :-(

    The trademark *is* real. The lawsuit is not. I could tell that much from reading the bit on the front page of /. The key to the whole joke is that the trademark is real and while they don't work at Despair there are people out there who if they had thought of it would do the lawsuit. In fact I would not be surprised to see a similar but real thing in the near future.

  4. My 2 Cents by Archanagor · · Score: 1 · on Altavista's Planned Patent Lawsuits

    Wow! What can you expect from a company that lists it's stock price on it's Home Page

    Greed in the extreme. <Sarcasm>Gotta Love It.</Sarcasm>

    Soo.. These are the ones responsible for making altavista go down the tubes in a hurry? I used to be an exclusive user of AltaVista, back when Digital had it. I slowly drifted from using it, as it became more of a lame portal than a decent search engine.

    Now, I use Google exclusively. After hearing this, it makes me glad I do.

    ---

  5. Re:WHO The Hell is CMGI by [Dilbert] · · Score: 1 · on CMGI Acquires AltaVista

    Well, you could try their website at http://www.cmgi.com, for starters.