Internet Shopping Sites
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A treat which will explain the history of “Internet Shopping Sites, the past and the present.” I do hope you enjoy it.
If you have used the Internet for a long time, then hark back to Northern Light, Excite, Galaxy, Lycos, HotBot, Magellan, InfoSpace, Go, Web crawler, iWon, Netfind, or Webtop. If you remember these, all different search engines, yes, you have been surfing the web for a long time. Most of the search engines shown above are now defunct, gone, or just disappeared off the face of the Earth.
Yes, in recent years, none of us could have noticed the numerous changes in both a person’s searching habits or, in fact, the search engines themselves. Nothing has been quite so dramatic as what has occurred in just two years, with the new Yahoo and Live appearance, even more, popular search engines.
While numerous smaller search engines, which focused on just search tools to assist you in this new way of browsing, still exist, the sad fact is that in terms of the large, potent, world-encompassing search engines, the Internet searchers of the past or the prehistoric period of the worldwide, the fact is that the web today has, believe it or not, fewer search engines from which a consumer can select anything from.
So what first did take place to get us to the point we are today, and what does the future herald for us all keen online shoppers, or just that person who loves to troll the web for things which are of interest to him or her?
In the early days of the Internet, there was immense competition within the search market industry among many search engines, all of them vying not only for users but, more importantly, investors.
Then on one dark day in mid-2000, “The “dot-bomb,” crash occurred, and with it began the shakeout of search companies which is still going on today.
The most considerable change wrought by the failure of so numerous Internet-based investments was the growth of pay-per-click publicizing in search results. Pioneered by Overture, these so-called underwritten results began to show up on the best of the highly rated and most recognized search engine result lists, like “Google,” Yahoo,” and “MSN,” to name a few. The bottom line, the more funding the advertiser, was willing to pay, the higher his company list would show up on the major ranking lists such as MSN and “Google.”
Then, in 2002 changes began to happen and they happened too quickly. The immense search engine unification began: Yahoo bought Inktomi, a little-known but radical player in the search engine world.
Overture purchased “AltaVista,” one of the oldest and most venerable search engines on the Internet, then not finished, they went on to rapidly acquire “AlltheWeb,” another radical search engine. Then to top it all off, in July 2003, Yahoo purchased “Overture,” thus accumulating three immense enormous search properties which would satisfy them well, at least if it was only for a few more years.
All the above, unusually for the times, was done publicly. The real revolution was what was going on behind the scenes. With a stimulating degree of secrecy, Yahoo gave the engineers it had obtained from “AltaVista” and “Inktomi” a new task to create a whole new search engine to compete with what was, even back then, the mega Google search engine.
So on February 18, 2004, Yahoo unveiled its new search engine, which has a database and search attribute to rival “Google,” which gained many new online clients for a while.
Then, perhaps jumping the gun slightly, Yahoo began killing off the “parents” of its new associated partners. The first to go was “Inktomi,” quickly followed by “AlltheWeb,” than the old girl herself “AltaVista.”
Authors note: While today consumers can still go to both the “AlltheWeb” and “AltaVista” sites and run searches, however, do not be fooled as the results are pulled from the Yahoo database, where the numerous popularities of any unique search possibilities and attributes of search engines are no longer accessible.
Give them their due. The once-mighty Yahoo goes on to add new features and opportunities every day to improve their now sagging search engine mechanisms.
I guess all we can do is sit back and see who wins the search engines’ battle. However, I am afraid my money is on Google.
Yes, it looked like 2006 was a busy year within the social community platforms. Yes, all these amalgamations did not help the now growing Internat Shopping Sites. Following the big two examples, other major search engines unveiled their own sweeping significant changes that should have made them serious contenders.
In 2006, “Ask,” “Exalead,” “Teoma,” and “Ask Jeeves” ceased to exist as separate search sites and merged under the “Ask.com” umbrella. A brave move, but one which seems to have paid off, and I say good for them, as good competition means good products or services.
