Altavista to serve only ads
Posted by Matthew on Monday January 24, 2005 @01:05PM
from the stupid-is-as-stupid-does dept.
Matthew writes: After ABC news reported that 82% of adult web searchers cannot distinguish actual search results from placed ads, Altavista has announced that it is converting to an ads-only format.
“Man, we’ve been beating ourselves up for years trying to catch up to Google’s search technology! What a waste of time that was, when all we needed to do was deliver ads by keyword. To hell with crawling the web for pages, that takes actual work! We’re just going to over-sell ad keywords and turn Altavista into an ad-search service. Sure, we’ll piss off the smartest 18% of searchers, but I think we can live with 82% of the market and 100% monetization of all searches.
Another survey indicated that 92% of people feel confident in their searching abilities, while the remaining 8% smelled themselves and fell off of a tree branch when questioned.