Comments on: Saying Goodbye to Delicious, MyBlogLog, AltaVista, and Larry King

By: DonnaJ WWAHHMpreneur

DonnaJ WWAHHMpreneur — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:26:21 +0000

@Khalid — I am also very relieved that delicious is not gone, yet, but I am sure it will be greatly transformed, in some way, and hopefully, a good way, once it is sold.

I am glad to have found your blog, Lorelle. Thanks for sharing some great stuff!

–Donna

P.S.
I also was an AltaVista user pre-Google. LOL! It’s amazing how exponentially fast things are changing now.

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By: Khalid J Hosein

Khalid J Hosein — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:42:13 +0000

Long live AltaVista! It too was my search engine of choice, and for some time too, even after the ascendancy of the big G. BTW, as much as Google’s search engine as thrived and progressed, they should be careful of the young up-and-comers. After all, Bing is challenging for #2 out of the ashes of MSN’s poor #3 ranking, and we all thought AV was the bomb until Google came along.

Am thrilled to see that Del.icio.us (yes, I prefer the old name!) will live on – wasn’t too psyched about having to migrate to something else (and what really?).

By: metaverse

metaverse — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:36:49 +0000

@thatgrrl You took the words right out of my mouth! First site on GeoCities. Fond memories of Excite, Lycos, and AltaVista (which was amazing in its day). I found MyBlogLog probably after its prime. And yes, I always longed for the day when I’d be able to take full advantage of Delicious’ power.

Are you thinking of eGroups? While many more folks worry about what happens to Flickr if Yahoo goes under, I truly fear what happens to the Yahoo Groups service and archive. What a valuable resource that is!

By: thatgrrl

thatgrrl — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:38:01 +0000

The closing of Alta Vista hits me too. More than MyBlogLog which became garbage over the years with sploggers pushing you to add them. More than Delicious, which I trusted to be there and keep my bookmarks and was sure one day I’d have time to tag them all. Alta Vista is Internet history. The only thing I can think of that would be a sadder loss would be the old newsgroups which Google now keeps archived. Alta Vista was the first site I ever searched from. Then I tried Excite, which is also gone. I had my first website on GeoCities, also gone. I ran my first group on another service swallowed up by Yahoo only to be closed down two years later (can’t even remember the name of it now). Although we can’t keep and support everything, history can never be replaced.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:12:06 +0000

@Bernie: It almost sounds like you’re alluding to Firefox as if it were a dying browser. It’s not. It’s still under active development. Firefox 4 is on the way, and will bring with it many wonderful new features. I will never use Chrome because it’s a Google product. I can’t trust a company whose CEO says things like, “Google policy is get right up to the creepy line and not cross it… We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”

That’s an actual quote from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. It was made on October 1st, 2010.

One of the reasons I use Firefox is specifically because there are add-ons available that can block Google from spying on me. I take full advantage of them every day, and will continue to. Long live Firefox. Jeers to Big Brother Google and peoples’ acceptance of its terrible privacy practices.

By: ian in hamburg

ian in hamburg — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:03:01 +0000

The internet is going through the same consolidation phase that all industries do. Look at railways at the end of the 19th century. There were hundreds and hundreds of different ones each serving a short set of tracks. Today there are very few with tens of thousands of miles each.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:57:06 +0000

@Miroslav: They didn’t. AltaVista sold to another company and that company was bought by Yahoo!

@Bernie: Thanks for the kind words. It’s amazing how much we’ve just accepted Google into almost every area of our life. Sometimes it’s good to stop and think – and maybe reconsider the omnipotence.

By: Miroslav Glavic

Miroslav Glavic — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:48:46 +0000

Del.icio.us/delicious.com, digg, and so forth, eventually many of them would die.

Why did the altavista owners sell to yahoo! in the first place?

By: Bernie

Bernie — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:24 +0000

Yes you are right things do change. I liked delicious because I could easily sync my favourites across several computers that I work in regularly. That all changed for me when I was able to sync my gmail account using Chrome. Now I can easily follow my favourites. There other sidestep here is that I have all but stopped using Firefox. I keep Internet Explores and Safari on my system for the odd occasions when Chrome behaves badly.

I also fondly remember AltaVista I used it regularly but became seduced by the now all present Google.

When I stop and think about it Google is everywhere, at least I have resisted Blogger in favour of WordPress.

I do enjoy your blog and keep track vis RSS (is that Google again)