Yikes, my AW stats is telling me that more people find my site through Alta Vista then through Msn and Yahoo - combined! Of course Google is 10x any of them. That's new this month, for a while AOL was my second most common engine. I think my visitors are in the stone age.
That seems very odd to me, too. AltaVista used to be my search engine of choice way back in the day. Way before Google, MSN, and when Yahoo was just a directory, lol.
Nope they dont suck, my rankings for Yahoo and MSN are very similar to my Google rankings. It's gotta be the stone age theory!
Alta Vista was T-H-E big thing since sliced bread in the old days like iTISTIC said. Perhaps people who still use it are old?
Yes, Alta Vista was my favorite also untill AllTheWeb came along... Oh they're definately old, I have alot of user names in the forums that look like this: John1940
WOW Altavista. The last time I use it was around 2002 I can remeber exacly but it has been like 3 to 4 years. I use Astalavista more often.
I remember it ... It kept my awake in the night with my slow modem and I got more and more faschinated each day. Then I was away for 5 years in another country and away from internet and when I came back my family talked about Google - which I had never heard about. And I said "Google, what is that for shit? Why not Altavista?" My little brother was laughing
I still get noticeable traffic (30-50 uniques a day) from Altavista on one of my sites (more than from Google - which makes me pretty certain G has penalised it).
I also rank well on the big three SEs but see some consistent traffic from AltaVista... The #1 referrer is consistently Google and #2 many months is AOL.
AV sent 12 people to my site last week. I can't believe people still use them. I remember when I first started doing SEO, I used WebPro Gold and AV banned me for the "blueline.gif'. I will never forgive them!
Thanks, I think... ... although I'm not sure that answers the question about the dead cat. The pose in the picture bears a scary resemblance to rigor mortis... (and before anyone accuse me of being off-topic, we were discussing AltaVista -> dead cat -> rigor mortis )