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Compaq Trying to Sell AltaVista?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the available-at-a-discount-rate dept.

sohp writes "This Wired news story reports that Compaq may be selling off AltaVista, Zip2 and other properties. " and if you happen to have a spare couple billion dollars burning a whole in your mattress you might just wanna take a look.

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  1. Engage by sql*kitten · · Score: 2

    Interestingly, CMGI own Engage, who have a product known as "Engage Knowledge" - this allows you to compare the demographic and advertising data from your site with the data from *all* Engage sites, so you can see how your users differ from the "net average user".

    Alta Vista would give this product a huge boost in terms of it's database, and vice versa, the revenue generation from Alta Vista will doubtless be enhanced by more sophisticated personalisation and targeting.

  2. Compaq sinks like the Titanic by Blackfire · · Score: 3

    Hmm.. dumping assets? What could this imply? A market shift perhaps. I can hear the suits at Compaq now...

    Yes that's it. Quickly remove all assets from the internet as that is a fairly stable market now. Quickly divert all extra funds into building radiation proof cases to withstand the 1GHz chip we're gonna smash in there.

    ...and while we're at it...

    Rumour has it that someone has found a way to remove those silly screws from the backs of our boxes. One million to R&D to come up with a new way to prevent kiddies from prying open their boxes.


    From a duct tape manufacturing pant...signing off

    Blackfire