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Information Today August 26, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
Tucows Sells Two Former Infonautics Services Tucows, Inc., an Internet services provider and domain registrar, announced that it has sold eLibrary and Encyclopedia.com, its search and reference services properties, to Alacritude, LLC, a new Chicago-based company. |
Information Today January 26, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
Alacritude Turns a HighBeam on Research Alacritude, LLC, which has been promising a complete retooling of its online research services, has just announced it is changing its company name to HighBeam Research, LLC, and launching a new flagship service called HighBeam Research. |
Information Today March 17, 2003 Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Office 2003 Opens New Market to Fee-Based Information Services A beta version of the upgraded Microsoft Office 2003 suite has gone out to half a million users. The new Office includes a Look-Up feature, which introduces a Research Task Pane that links to commercial fee-based search service offerings. |
Information Today September 2003 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Content, Search Engines, and More I expected a fairly quiet summer for industry news after the major conferences ended, but it actually buzzed with activity. |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi To Offer Paid Submit Option In the wake of LookSmart's new pay-for-consideration system, Inktomi has just announced that it will offer a pay for inclusion service later this year. |
Search Engine Watch June 2, 2000 |
Inktomi Reenters Battle For Biggest It's been over a year since one could consider Inktomi among the largest search engines on the web. The company's crawler-built index of web pages has stayed static at 110 million, while competitors such as AltaVista, FAST and Northern Light have pushed past the 200 and 300 million marks. Now Inktomi says it's back. |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 1999 |
Search Engine Coverage Study Published In 1998, a landmark study published in Science magazine found that search engines fell well-short of listing everything on the web. Last month, a repeat to this study was published. Once again, search engines were found to contain only a small percentage of the web pages available. |
Information Today December 15, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Alacritude to Add Gale Content... Google Adds Search by Number Feature... WilsonWeb Databases Link to Ingenta Full Text |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2004 Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News Alacritude Focuses Its High Beam; Stays in the FAST Lane... Three Science Sites Eliminated... Groxis Announces Grokker 2... etc. |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Launches New Paid Inclusion Program, Search Improvements Inktomi has rolled out a new paid inclusion program aimed at large content providers. In addition, the company has also unveiled new changes to how the service indexes and ranks web pages... |
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Debuts Self-Serve Paid Inclusion In a landmark move, Inktomi announced a new partnership with Position Technologies this week that allows site owners to pay for guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi index... |
Search Engine Watch March 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Network Solutions Launches Inktomi Paid Inclusion Network Solutions was Inktomi's first paid inclusion partner, announced way back in the middle of last year. Finally, that partnership has gone live, with Network Solutions now offering guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi web index through its web site... |
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Google & FAST Move Up In Size Google announced last week that its size has increased to 602 million pages that have been fully-indexed and to 1.25 million pages when partially indexed material is included. The announcement came just about week after FAST Search had gained the title of biggest search engine... |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2003 Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News Inktomi's New Frontier: Web Search 9... EDGAR Flies Free Again... Alliances & Deals... etc. |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2000 |
Numbers, Numbers -- But What Do They Mean? Some search engines now tell you both how many pages they've spidered and what they've kept. This article helps you make sense of the numbers. |
Information Today June 24, 2014 |
Boopsie and ProQuest Offer Mobile App Integration Boopsie for Libraries partnered with ProQuest's eLibrary product team to integrate Boopsie's mobile apps with eLibrary's resources. |
Information Today August 2000 |
bigchalk.com Signs $750,000 Licensing Agreement with Excalibur Excalibur Technologies Corp., a provider of intelligent search solutions for intranet portals and Internet/e-commerce applications, has announced that it has signed a 10-year licensing agreement with bigchalk.com, an Internet education company. |
Search Engine Watch September 4, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Expands Inclusion Partners In conjunction with last month's Search Engine Strategies conference, Inktomi announced a number of new partners who are reselling its paid inclusion programs... |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 1999 |
FAST Announces Largest Search Engine FAST Search is now claiming an index of 200 million web pages, which would make it the largest search engine on the web. |
InternetNews July 14, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
HighBeam Stocks Virtual Library Looking to fill the gap between Google and Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam now extracts information from the Columbia Encyclopedia, as well as two dozen other publications like specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, a thesaurus and others. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Dead Search Engines There have been major and significant changes in the search engine industry over the past few years, with surprising announcements almost every month. While most of the search engines' domains remain active, the actual state of the search engines is quite different... |
Information Today January 15, 2009 Barbara Quint |
New eLibrary Interface Shows the Path for ProQuest The eLibrary service leads ProQuest's outreach to the K-12 and community college market. As such, it is in the frontline of the company's dealings with the Millennials and "Neo-Millennials" |
ONLINE September 2000 Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update The past few months have seen a flurry of announcements of major size increases from several search engines. It seems that the industry as a whole is making renewed efforts to try and keep up with the growth of the Web. |
InternetNews February 20, 2004 Colin Haley |
Q&A: Patrick Spain, Founder HighBeam The man who co-founded Hoover's looks for a second online hit in the space between free search options like Google and high-end providers such as LexisNexis. |
Search Engine Watch September 3, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Increases Size, Introduces Anti-Proximity Last month Inktomi rolled out a larger, 2 billion web page index, as well as making some internal changes designed to improve the relevancy of its listings. |
ONLINE May 2000 Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista adds related pages link; Ask Jeeves acquires Direct Hit; New Intelliseek BullsEye Pro 2; Dialog releases WebCheck, etc. |
Search Engine Watch June 8, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi To Acquire Ultraseek From Go.com Inktomi has announced that it is to acquire Ultraseek Corporation, the subsidiary of Go.com that produces search software used by web sites and companies for site-specific and Intranet searching. The acquisition is expected to close in November, Inktomi says. |
Information Today December 2003 Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreak Update Updates on projects, partnerships, improved services, and more in the information industry |
Information Today April 19, 2012 Marydee Ojala |
Opening Up the World Bank's Data In its ongoing trajectory toward transparency, the World Bank announced on April 10, 2012, that it would make its publications open access under Creative Commons licenses. |
Information Today December 2003 |
Product News and Reviews Nexcerpt Announces Product Enhancements... ebrary, Society of Manufacturing Engineers Launch Manufacturing Engineering Database... Dialog Offers New Content, Portal Service... etc. |
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion At Search Engines Gains Ground Paid inclusion, now in place at Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and Inktomi, guarantee to site owners that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur... |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Time For The Search Dividend? We may be seeing the beginning of a search dividend coming to searchers, now that several of the major search engines are maturing their new business models... |
Search Engine Watch February 16, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Changes Afoot at Yahoo & MSN Yahoo switches from Google to its own search, and MSN drops LookSmart listings. |
Search Engine Watch February 6, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi's Free Add URL Penalty Submitting your page to Inktomi via the free Add URL pages of its partners such as HotBot causes them to incur a ranking penalty. Relax, it's not as bad as it sounds, though disclosure of this change, made in the middle of last year, would have saved us some confusion... |
Search Engine Watch July 5, 2000 |
Good For Google Does Not Equal Bad For Inktomi The loss of big portal Yahoo to Google's search service doesn't necessarily mean Inktomi is a big loser, just because Google is a big winner. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 |
Industry News Microsoft Recognizes Research... Google Acquires Pyra Labs, Creator of Blogger... The acquisition of Hoover's by D&B became final in March... EBSCO announced it would acquire the U.S. operations of RoweCom Inc.... LoisLaw released LoisLaw Public Records... etc. |
Search Engine Watch October 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Drop LookSmart LookSmart has announced that its deal to provide Microsoft with listings for its MSN Search service is not being renewed, leaving the company without its most important partner. |
Search Engine Watch January 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue. |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Spam Database Left Open To Public Inktomi suffered an embarrassing lack of security last week, when it was discovered that a copy of its database of spam and porn sites was left open to the public... |
Information Today March 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest Industry News, Developments in Enterprise Search, and More During the past month or so, U.S. news has been dominated by both the MyDoom computer worm... To aid the print and online media, Factiva provides a media index that tracks the visibility of high-profile election candidates... etc. |
Search Engine Watch July 6, 1999 |
July 99 Search Engine Briefs Inktomi has been selected to take over from Excite in powering AOL NetFind and AOL's other search properties, including international versions of AOL NetFind. No changeover date for AOL NetFind has been announced, but Inktomi says the switch is likely to happen later this summer. For the time being, AOL NetFind continues to be powered by Excite. AOL is also apparently testing a new AOL Search service that will integrate results from across the web and from its own content. |
Information Today January 26, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
Information Today February 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Ingenta Launches New Service, Designs Web Site... IEEE Enhances IEEE Xplore, Signs FEDLINK Agreement... ITI Releases New Version of Fulltext Sources Online... EBSCO Expands Springer-Verlag Agreement, Offers New Database... etc. |
ONLINE July 2001 Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista continues to make changes to its site... Google has added automatic translation capability... Google Groups has expanded its advanced search capabilities and the depth of its Usenet archive... iLor has received much press lately for its innovative addition of features to Google... etc. |
Search Engine Watch January 4, 2000 |
MSN Search Changes To Inktomi MSN Search has returned to using Inktomi to power the "Web Pages" section of its results. Inktomi was dumped in favor of AltaVista earlier this year |