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About once a year I go to AltaVista.com and Lycos.com to see if they still exist. I wonder sometimes if people go to work everyday at these companies, or if they're just a server somewhere now.

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Not only do people still work at these companies but you could be one of them: http://info.lycos.com/jobs.php

In the "SEO Analyst" requirements:

> Understanding of link building and content syndication are required > Bachelors degree in a related field

Did universities start selling SEO(-related) degrees already?

Related is probably marketing, business, or something CS-y.

I was mostly joking, since their formatting made it look like those two were the same bullet point.

My question still stands though, has anyone heard of a SEO degree, or some kind of online marketing degree (maybe with a SEO class on the curriculum)?

This one is endorsed by seomoz: http://www.marketmotive.com/

The fact that there is no engineering position on that list says enough.

How about that! If they are hiring, they must have a plan, a vision, a dream for the company. The question is, what is it? What can they do to get our attention again?

I miss when AltaVista was at altavista.digital.com.

I'd like to throw excite.com onto my list.

Their TV Listings page is one of the easiest to use and best I've ever seen - merely for its simplicity and amount of information with all the shows:

http://www.excite.com/tv/data.jsp

It will be pretty depressing working for any of these companies.

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