Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 6, 2015 @10:33AM from the survival-of-the-fittest dept.

techtsp writes: Marcia J. Bates, UCLA Professor Emerita of Information Studies recently explained why Google's birth led to the downfall of AltaVista. According to Bates, early search engines including AltaVista adapted the classical IR methods. At the other hand, Google founders started off with a completely different approach in mind. Google successfully recognized the potential of URLs, which could be added to the algorithms for the sake of information indexing altogether. Google's modern age techniques were a huge boost to those older techniques. Whatever other business and company management issues AltaVista faced, it was the last of the old style information retrieval engines.

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Infra-Red vs Links! by BenJeremy · 2015-09-06 10:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Providing links to search results was obviously far more useful to web users than Infrared.
Duh.
It was because of AstaLavista by future+assassin · 2015-09-06 11:42 · Score: 4, Funny

not google that cause AltaVista to fail.

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by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Re:Grammar? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-06 11:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Everyone knows there's only one definition of IR.