Comments on: Overturn, Overture, What Ever!

Overturn, Overture, What Ever!

wendell — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 03:15:02 -0800

EXTRY! EXTRY! Read All About It! New York Times commits Freudian-Slippish Typo in title of AltaVista story! (link ironically via Google News)
But seriously, with CMGI selling AV for about 6% of what it paid to buy it, and Overture's stock price dropping 20% the day the deal was announced, does this mean AltaVista is D.O.A.? If so, where will we go for a dopey translation/Douglas Adams tribute?
In other Search Engine News, those Norwegians at FAST (aka alltheweb.com) are gettin' a Dell, dude. And the guy who started all this by selling out to Google is real quiet.

By: DBAPaul

DBAPaul — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 03:44:52 -0800

AltaVista was my search engine of choice when it first came out. It was a damn fine search engine, but Google became better. I still use AltaVista occasionally but I don't trust it's 'freshness' as much as Google. DOA? perhaps comatose is more accurate.

By: BubbaDude

BubbaDude — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 03:59:15 -0800

I learned a new phrase from Evhead's non-blog: "shopping for yachts" == "clearing my head". Education is such a wonderful thing.

By: hama7

hama7 — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 04:04:28 -0800

I don't get it.

By: jeremias

jeremias — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 04:37:42 -0800

Me neither. The featured link is a typo?

By: ralawrence

ralawrence — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 04:49:43 -0800

If so, where will we go for a dopey translation/Douglas Adams tribute? Well I don't know about the Douglas Adams tribute, but for dopey translations Google has one right here

By: toby\flat2

toby\flat2 — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 05:04:08 -0800

overture/overturn

By: ?!

?! — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 05:54:09 -0800

The Douglas Adams tribute was in naming AV's translation service "Babel Fish"

By: fried

fried — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:11:53 -0800

Dell will use FAST's recently upgraded software, which boasts linguistic features to match users' intentions with results presented, automatic spell-checking and search keywords highlighted in all results descriptions. Looks like Dell read the 37signals Search Research Report. Good for them.

By: bradlands

bradlands — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:35:31 -0800

(slightly)OT: I [heart] Wendell, but you're wasted around here, little mister. Please, in the name of all that is holy, come back to us and never go away again. I know it wasn't a promise, but I miss ya, old pal, old foil.

By: lampshade

lampshade — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:45:23 -0800

this is not a gem on the internet