Reminds me of when I worked at Altavista (the "original Google") for all of two months in late 1999. They had rolled up many companies and I was assigned to work in one of the recent acquisitions, and the manager and I met twice in that time. They asked me to get some insight into how the search operation worked. I played a lot of pool. Found out they hadn't successfully indexed the web for a while. Altavista was trying to be everything to everyone and was spending a ton on celebrity advertising (Pamela Anderson for example). I left.

I think CMGI rolled up the remnants of Altavista.