1998 October: New top rank: Altavista becomes strongest search engine

The web wide Inktomi/Yahoo search ink.yahoo.com remained only one month long our strongest referer. Maybe a small change in their ranking algorithm brouhgt Altavista the top rank.

Total referers found in referer log files from all our own domains, and design and seminar customers hosted on our server. This only counts visitors coming from a link or a search engine. This does not count repeated visitors from bockmarks and visitors typing direct the URL (from newspaper or so)30519 2 visitors per pixel
1www.altavista.com4752
2ink.yahoo.com4021
3139.142.69.1173347
4www.eule.de2113
5www.infoseek.com1622
6ink.yahoo.de1619
7search.msn.com1136
8www.fireball.de954
9search.excite.com877
10www.hotbot.com843
11netfind.aol.com759
12www.lycos.com563
13www.goto.com456
14excitesearch.netscape.com422
15altavista.digital.com362
16www.webcrawler.com335
17www.metacrawler.com324
18www.lycos.de296
19www.euroseek.net156
20www.altavista.digital.com153
21www.aladin.de149
22search.yahoo.com129
23at.intersearch.net117
24www.evreka.com115
25austria.intersearch.net111
26system.directhit.com110
27search.yahoo.co.jp108
28av.yahoo.com107
29ink.yahoo.co.uk106
30altavista.com101
31jserv.rrzn.uni-hannover.de:808099
32jserv.rrzn.uni-hannover.de93
33www.mayer-carpets.org92
34other referers89
35www.snap.com84
36www.altavistacanada.com75
37www.looksmart.com75
38guide-p.infoseek.com72
39www.salzburg.at71
40www.search.com67
41buck.dogpile.com65
42www.et-info.com63
43www.pege.org62
44www.uni-muenster.de62
45quixote.dogpile.com61
46ink.yahoo.ca60
47www.apollo7.de59
48www.infind.com51
49www.yahoo.co.jp49
50webcrawler.com47
51www-sci.lib.uci.edu47
52www.excite.de43
53hotbot.com42
54www.top50.co.uk41
55home.interstat.net41
56home.snap.com40
57ink.yahoo.com.au40
58www.lotse.de40
59informant.dartmouth.edu39
60www.orgasmdonor.com39
61mayer-carpets.org39
62hmc.snap.com39
63altavista.yellowpages.com.au38
64newsgroups37
65dir.yahoo.com36
66www.sbgenergy.net36
67www.salzburgs.com36
68robot.intersearch.net33
69sear.ch33
70www.askjeeves.com32
71www.fury.de32
72altavista.looksmart.com31
73www.intersearch.at30
74www.austria.intersearch.net29
75www.sear.ch29
76www.altavista.de29
77crawler.de27
78www.gohip.com27
79i-s-t.com26
80www.intersearch.de25
81de.intersearch.net24
82www.energie.ch24
83www.de.lycos.de23
84www.spider.de23
85www.jca.ax.apc.org22
86ink.yahoo.dk22
87lotse.de22
88pege.org21
89www.kolibri.de21
90lycospro.lycos.com20
91www.germany.aol.com20
92www.netguide.at20
93www.altavista.ca20
94fireball.de19
95ink.yahoo.com.sg19
96gte.snap.com19
97www.mamma.com19
98search8.metacrawler.com18
99www.adguide.de18
100..........other 392 referers together1410



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1998: Business to business b2b brings more than consumer sites

We learned that a client with a business to business site with only 400 visitors a month can be extrem satisfied, while a high end consumer product site makes desperat with 4000.
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1998 September: Infoseek lost top against ink.yahoo.com (Inktomi/Yahoo)

From August 1997 to August 1998, Infossek was the strongest referer to our sites.  But this month, Infoseek lost against the Inktomi database which Yahoo uses for web wide search.
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1998: Business to business b2b brings more than consumer sites

We learned that a client with a business to business site with only 400 visitors a month can be extrem satisfied, while a high end consumer product site makes desperat with 4000.
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1998 November: referer stats search engine top 100 hitparade

Digital purchsead the domain name Altavista. What was before altavista.digital.com is now altavista.com. The European version from Telia ''altavista.telia.com'' is discontinued.
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1999: Combine search engine skills with layout and design

A seminar delivered to a famouse advertising agency was no one way road. While they learned all the necessary search engine skills, I learned much in design and layout.
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