On 2/1/2000 at 8:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Hutchison)
wrote:
> I guess we'll wait and see.
The consensus at slashdot[1] seems to be that AltaVista is either:
a) re-launching the same search engine they've made available for
several years under the auspices of a new affiliate program, or
b) attempting to claim that providing end-users with a snippet of HTML
to escort search queries to altavista somehow constitutes "open source".
AltaVista/CMGI's press release, focused entirely on the affiliate
program, seems to confirm the latter:
"The AltaVista Affiliate Network is leading the expansion of our
distinctive services throughout the Web, at a global scale," said
Rod Schrock, president and CEO of AltaVista Company. "This
program will effectively open source AltaVista Search and
translation services thereby extending our brand to the Internet
community."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000201/ca_altavis_1.html
Nothing to get out of bed for.
-nat
[1] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/01/1036227&mode=thread
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