just reminiscing about altavista by reading about them on wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altavista )... in 96 yahoo started using altavista search results, and in 04 yahoo started using altavista results LOL
although if you look at the Fast stock it halved in price over the last year, until (i'm assuming) the microsoft announcement. i'm baffled how the company can be worth so much. For employees i'm guessing that its going to suck as microsoft will no doubt close all of the offices around the world and merge them in some where else.
seriously, microsoft have desktop and net search, how can they justify paying a billion dollars to help their push into enterprise search, it can't be that hard for them to get some guys from the other teams to make their own solution.
and yes, i realise i'm talking about microsoft.
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just reminiscing about altavista by reading about them on wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altavista ) ... in 96 yahoo started using altavista search results, and in 04 yahoo started using altavista results LOL
although if you look at the Fast stock it halved in price over the last year, until (i'm assuming) the microsoft announcement. i'm baffled how the company can be worth so much. For employees i'm guessing that its going to suck as microsoft will no doubt close all of the offices around the world and merge them in some where else. seriously, microsoft have desktop and net search, how can they justify paying a billion dollars to help their push into enterprise search, it can't be that hard for them to get some guys from the other teams to make their own solution. and yes, i realise i'm talking about microsoft.