[151897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Mon Apr 2 21:01:10 2012
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:00:19 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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C. A. Fillekes wrote:
> I do not think that the closing of a service that's undergone multiple
> acquisitions by actual competitors is at all surprising. Did the
> closing of Alta Vista a couple years ago after its acquisition by
> Yahoo! spell the death of internet search? No.
Well, it's a bit hard to kill off internet searching. Because looking
for stuff is pretty much everyone's main "raisin d'etre". It's not like
you can replace searching with something else. You can replace email
with another form of communication, but searching is searching...
Since quite a number of years altavista.com searches are just submitted
to search.yahoo.com and some time ago I noticed on yahoo's site the
words "powered by bing". Does that mean yahoo's search engine has been
abolished also and is being ran by microsoft (technology)?
In that case the two main search engines of the 90s are dead. Nobody
missed them though...
Regards,
Jeroen
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