AltaVista Essays

  • Essay: Why You Should Get Listed In Online Web Directories

    798 Words  | 4 Pages

    Why You Should Get Listed in Online Web Directories A Look in the Past of Web Directories Online directories, whether offering globally or locally based business listing, have been one of the important part of website marketing campaigns since the birth of search engine optimization and other internet marketing methods. However, due to the abuse of website owners to get as many backlinks from web directories as they could, search engines like Google has limited the weight of such links. This

  • Growing Up With The Progression Of Amazon

    701 Words  | 3 Pages

    Unlike AltaVista, Google focused more on content than it did on a traditional computated result. AltaVista and search engines like it were tag based driven, when if the link has a word you searched for, it shows up. Googles algorithm went beyond traditional computing and more towards the mindset of human intelligence

  • Business Fraud Case Study: Amazon

    1662 Words  | 7 Pages

    INTRODUTION Amazon is the multinational electronic commerce corporation which was established in 1994, by Jeff Bezos with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. Mr. Jeff Bezos was insistent on naming his corporation with the letter A. As such he started perusing through the dictionary, and ultimately settled with Amazon. He considered the fact that the Amazon river was the largest on in the world and with a motive of estabilishing the organization’s supremacy in the market he confirmed

  • Case Study: Schumpeterian Competition

    1006 Words  | 5 Pages

    I. Introduction Goggle replaced Yahoo, and Yahoo replaced AltaVista and other search engines. These are examples of how fast new players may take over sales in a certain categories on the market. Since 1990s, the market has leaders and innovators that are winner-take-all concentrated, and focused on taking over the market. Competitive advantage is being run for and more companies are investing in IT in order to reach quality and quantity of goods and services. They are replacing their operating

  • Business Law Case Study

    3643 Words  | 15 Pages

    Alex Mumm Business Law Professor Tauchert December 1st, 2014 It all began with an argument between Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the summer of 1995. Larry thought Sergey was arrogant, while Sergey thought Larry was obnoxious (“The Birth of Google”). Little did they know that their common obsession with back links would change the internet forever. With some research and a lot of trial and error, the two college students from Stanford University created the most-used search engine