Re: OT:Search Engines-Amazon

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>Amazon uses Altavista (according to Altavista). CDNow uses Verity
(according
>to people I have spoken with at CDNow).

>if you go to www.altavista.com and look for their search engine, they
list
>the customers who use it. www.verity.com does the same.

>We have been looking at search engines recently. There are good and
bad
>points to both altavista and verity, but they seem to be the top ones
out
>there.

Lisa,

I heard recently that Yahoo adopted the Google search engine (in favor of Inktomi?). Maybe worth looking at that as well.. I know FT (Financial Times) uses Inktomi. But Google is the fastest (and most relevant) search engine so far... As you noted, definitely not InterMedia!

My $0.02 before I quit the list (temporarily, I hope!)

John Kanagaraj
Brunei Shell Petroleum
http://www.geocities.com/john_sharmila

Moving out of Brunei soon! My 'permanent' address is 'john_sharmila_at_yahoo.com'!!

• Opinions expressed here are solely mine and not necessarily those of my employer **

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