Altavista dont have a chance in the search engine competition against google. Why are you wondering that ?
Altavista is old, in my opinion. Google is new. At the moment, Altavista dosn't have a chance in this lifetime.
How the hell should we know? We can't predict the future, so who knows? The google killer could be called Boozo. Hypothetical questions serve best to help the mind masturbate.
how YOU doin'? He's right though. Google will not be king forever, but nobody knows who will be next? It might be a Chinese corporation, or one from the oil-rich states, ...
if altavista was going to be top, it would have done it before google was around when there was no competition. why wait til you have uncompetable competition until you unleash your winning product?!
No it can't and the reason is quality. Google offers very good search results. If you ever browse through the search results to page 100 you will notice that the further you go the less relevant results you get. As for altavista, I have hardly ever found anything I was looking for using that search engine.
ofcourse it cannot beat the Giant Google because the results quality of google search engine is much much better then any other one on the internet.
Nope, not possible, Altavista used to be my favorite together with Infoseek but now I haven't visited it for a year I guess? Google already took all my traffic simply because google is easy accurate and up to date. Even if Altavista developed something new, it would have to be revolutionary for me to notice and visit it.
Google has a massive stranglehold on the Internet, and it will not go down for a long time. At the moment, NOTHING can or will beat it. It dominates the Search Engine Industry, the PPC industry, is getting bigger with the webmail. Google has a massive news source, the only exceptional image search engine, the largest and most well known video site on the Internet, has detailed satellite maps of the entire planet incorporated into a 3D model and a 2D counterpart, and expanding into non-Internet things such as smart fuel pumps.... I don't think Google will have much competition for at least 20 years, and if it starts getting competition, it buys it out. Google will most likely be the largest enterprise in the computer industry within 50 years, and possibly the world. I reckon they will be the company that steps the world into the future - Microsoft started it, Google will finish it, and within the next 10 years I'd expect them to release a Web Browser, that payment processor of theirs... No site will beat Google now, or anytime in the forseeable future. BP
Anybody can beat Google, We have all seen Giant Corporations fall, they are one product away from winning or losing. One of the guys here might have a killer idea to search and index sites better. Google will surely fall, it is just a matter of when. I say 3 years more.
that is one thing they do have better!! sure google translate looks better, but i have found a lot of simple words it has got wrong, so have lost total faith in it.
They are now more or less Yahoo, a lot of the formerly independently search engines are more or less evolving around Overture I think, so whatever it is there is still only 3 main search engines, the rest are subsets of either one of the main ones.
Online translation or software translation are never accurate, there are too many differences from one language to another to allow for good and accurate translation. Human beings are still the best translator.
Apparently none of you guys know AltaVista's history. It was the best search engine for a while in the 1990s, until Google came along and knocked it out of the box. Overture bought AltaVista and then Yahoo bought Overture. Yahoo used AltaVista's search technology and then pretty much trashed the name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista It doesn't have much chance of ever recovering and beating Google. Yahoo is having enough trouble trying to do that with their flagship domain name. Love it or not, we are stuck with Google for a while.
As has been said, Altavista is now owned by Yahoo, so I guess either Yahoo would have to sell the Altavista brand or Yahoo would start using Altavista as the name for their search service; both of which are very unlikely IMO.