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New looks and functions, too...the portals...

Cnnfn.com reports on the new looks (interfaces) for AltaVista and LYCOShop. The article also includes boasting remarks by AltaVista about size (size matters in the search engine space). Relevance and quality, however, are areas so oft ignored by the portals. The solution seems to have become a shift in reliance on spiders and an increased reliance on DMOZ (the open directory project). A shift in emphsis to e-commerce seems to have occurred as well, which puts some of the portals in direct competition with their advertisers. Interesting...

Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:35:03 -0800