AltaVista Company is now the second most popular referring search engine, passing Excite in the most recent survey by WebSideStory's StatMarket ( http://www.statmarket.com ). AltaVista is 10
percentage points ahead of the third place competitor. Its global search referral percentage -- the amount of Web traffic worldwide it refers or directs to other sites -- has nearly doubled in the
past 15 months, from 9.04% on April 5, 1999 to 16.56% on July 4, 2000, according to StatMarket. Only Yahoo ranked higher in the survey.
