1999 November: The Altavista database disaster

After being from October 1998 to October 1999 our most important search engine, Altavista lost top by a severe own fault: Their database forgot suddenly a huge number of sites.

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)39316 2 visitors per pixel
1ink.yahoo.com4761
2www.fireball.de3683
3www.infoseek.de2242
4www.goto.com1791
5www.hotbot.com1666
6de.ink.yahoo.com1533
7www.altavista.com1508
8www.lycos.com1354
9www.lycos.de1349
10www.webtop.com1294
11infoseek.go.com1245
12dir.yahoo.com1057
13search.excite.com983
14search.yahoo.com971
15mserv.rrzn.uni-hannover.de866
16ink.yahoo.de572
17www.dogpile.com533
18www.go.com526
19search.go2net.com461
20www.altavista.de394
21search.aol.com328
22aolsearch.aol.com310
23nscp.snap.com160
24de.dir.yahoo.com154
25search.msn.com152
26search.yahoo.co.jp149
27search.cnet.com148
28uk.ink.yahoo.com143
29seek.t-online.de143
30www.snap.com135
31search.msn.es134
32other referers132
33www.pege.org132
34hotbot.com125
35www.salzburgs.com115
36search.iwon.com111
37realms.reichel.net110
38fireball.de104
39netfind.germany.aol.com98
40www.alltheweb.com97
41search.megaspider.com93
42216.15.192.22689
43www.webcrawler.com88
44suchen.eule.de88
45www.silentnightmuseum.org88
46search.searchalot.com84
47www.search.freeserve.net82
48www.euroseek.net81
49users.intercomm.com78
50www.infoseek.com75
51www.excite.de75
52www.salzburg.at75
53informant.dartmouth.edu73
54www.mayer-carpets.org71
55www.northernlight.com68
56www.yahoo.co.jp67
57dogpile.com65
58www.mamma.com64
59de.search.yahoo.com64
60lycospro.lycos.com64
61www.lfnatur.com63
62dialspace.dial.pipex.com62
63www.chello.at62
64search.msn.de61
65www.excite.co.uk60
66suche.web.de60
67www.lycos.nl59
68newsgroups59
69194.96.205.4059
70www.metacrawler.com58
71www.aladin.de58
72www-sci.lib.uci.edu58
73home.cnet.com57
74www.bellsouth.net56
75www.askjeeves.com55
76apollo.evision.de53
77www.google.com53
78www.anzwers.com.au50
79uk.search.yahoo.com49
80msn.directhit.com49
81www.netfind.co.uk49
82pege.org47
83www.goo.ne.jp47
84www.sbgenergy.net43
85www.de.lycos.de43
86www.ask.com43
87www.looksmart.com43
88crawler.de42
89www.lotse.de42
90aura-soma.cc42
91search.ca.msn.com41
92www.profusion.com40
93google.netscape.com40
94home.snap.com40
95home.interstat.net39
96goto.com39
97results.searchopolis.com39
98search.msn.co.uk38
99au.ink.yahoo.com37
100..........other 779 referers together4080



The most important part of web design: being found advertising agency for search engine optimized web design SEO searchengine optimization service
( <<-- back one chapter ) 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.
( <-- back one page ) 1999 October: referer statistics search engines top 100 hitparade GOTO has a very interesting system to bid on search terms. We did not invest 1 cent in this. GOTO achieved alone with the unpaid free ranking place 5 in our referer hit parade.
( Index ) 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.
( next page --> ) 1999 December: German search engine Fireball becomes our top referer After being since January 1999 always under the top 3, the most important German searchengine Fireball.de achieves first time rank 1 in our referer hit parade.
( next chapter --> ) 2000: Big clients require much references My references established in the years before made my way to 3 clients with more than 100 employees. But since they make also much larger sites, they had not been finished 2000.
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