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ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!...   |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb is now indexing and including Microsoft Word files available on the Web.... AltaVista has added a few new features to its news search... Ask Jeeves has announced that it will no longer have banner ads on its site... Google has been busy on the experimental front again... etc. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb claims it has increased the size of its database to over 2 billion fully indexed Web pages... AltaVista now really defaults to a Boolean AND... Ask Jeeves has a new, simpler design... Google has been promoting its fee-based Google Answers... etc. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2004
Greg R. Notes |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves joins the push for local search... Google and Yahoo! now have their own blogs... Lycos has introduced two new focused search engines: People Search and Discussion Search... MSN Search's technology preview of its new search engine is now gone ... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
June 21, 2004
Gary Price |
Ask Jeeves Sharpens Its Focus Ask Jeeves announced several new 'Smart Search' shortcuts, along with a new page preview tool. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb has had a redesign and new features added... AltaVista has begun a freshness initiative to bring its entire database more up-to-date... Answer Services have been popular... AOL Search will switch from Inktomi to Google this summer... Direct Hit no longer available... etc. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts An online searcher offers tips and practical advice on efficient and effective online searching using shortcuts and prefixes. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update About.com sold its Sprinks ad network to Google... Amazon has entered the search field in a big way... AOL has renewed its use of the Google Web and ad databases... Ask Jeeves added an advanced search page... Gigablast has removed the date sort option... etc. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now uses a keyword-in-context (KWIC) display in their search results... AltaVista has made some major updates... GigaBlast, a new search engine launched last summer, is now offering a site search product... Inktomi has sold its enterprise search software to Verity... etc. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update As expected, now that Yahoo! has launched its own Yahoo! Search database, this has meant the death of unique databases at older search engines, including AltaVista and AlltheWeb. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has expanded the number of file types it indexes... Gigablast has been rather busy -- adding full Boolean searching, the indexing of PDF and other file types, and some metatags... Google has introduced a new operator, the tilde, for searching synonyms... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
January 19, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Google, Yahoo Still Favorites in North America For the second year running, a Keynote Systems study says Google provides the most satisfying search experience among North American users, despite competitive maneuvering from all of the other major search services. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2006
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Tracking Your Search History Commercial databases and traditional online systems have offered a search history feature for decades. Web search engines are finally catching up. The options vary greatly among them, but all raise a number of privacy issues. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Searches On Google? Many webmasters have found that recent changes at Google have hurt them. But does all the hue and cry over Google's recent algorithm change have any impact on searchers? There are some developments worth noting, and this article takes a Q&A approach to examine them. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Microsoft's Still Searching Today, Microsoft unveiled an upgrade to its MSN search capabilities, as well as a preview of search functions to come. |
InternetNews
January 9, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Yahoo Leads in Toolbar Searches Though it continues to fall behind Google in other categories, Yahoo currently holds the lead for the most toolbar searches, but only by the thinnest of margins. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AltaVista has introduced several listing enhancements that are available for a fee but do not change ranking... Ask Jeeves now includes Teoma results after its question and answer matches... Excite is no longer a separately built search engine... Google has continued to be very active... etc. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Fiddling with File Types In the computer age, each software program seems to have one or more distinct file types in which it saves individual documents. While the Web has pushed a single format, HTML, one of the Net's great strengths has been its ability to make many other file formats available as well. |
Information Today
April 25, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
Search Engines Roll Out New Personalization Options Several major search engines, such as Ask Jeeves and Yahoo!, are offering personalization upgrades to retain searchers. |
Search Engine Watch
September 21, 2004
Gary Price |
Ask Jeeves Serves It Your Way It's a busy day at Ask Jeeves with the announcement of several new services and enhancements, including the launch of a new personalized search tool and a major upgrade of the company's Teoma search engine. |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion. |
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
October 14, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Desktop Search Launched The company released a new Google Desktop Search tool that allows people to scan their computers for information in the same way they use Google to search the web. Its ease of use, plus how it enhances the Google search experience, make it a compelling product to use. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
InternetNews
December 15, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Jeeves Enters Desktop Search Game Ask Jeeves entered the desktop search competition with a beta version of its own service that scours users' computers. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now offers suggested spelling corrections.... Altavista has loaded larger multimedia databases for its image, audio, and video searches... AOL Search has added an image search database... Ask Jeeves has sold off its enterprise search division... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
May 5, 2004
Gary Price |
More Yahoo Search Shortcuts Yahoo has rolled out several new search shortcuts, continuing the trend also in play at Google and Ask Jeeves to make ready reference information even easier to find. |
Search Engine Watch
January 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap While Big G continues to maintain its leadership position in the eyes of web searchers, a new study finds that Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves have all made significant improvements over the past year and are narrowing Google's mindshare advantage. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Gets New Look; Microsoft Gets New Search Engine Microsoft released a public preview of its long-awaited web search technology today. The company also gave a facelift to its popular MSN Search site that remains powered by Yahoo's search technology and dropped paid inclusion listings there. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Google's Suggestive New Service Google Suggest may come as no shock, but it's useful and accurate. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has added a dictionary look-up... Ask Jeeves has launched Ask Jeeves 5.0... Daypop has expanded to include 19,000 more blogs... Recently Gigablast has expanded to include a chief management officer and a chief scientist... Google has purchased Applied Semantics... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Yahoo Partners With Google Yahoo has selected Google to take over from Inktomi in powering Yahoo's secondary results.... |
Search Engine Watch
May 20, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Personalized Home Page Google has unveiled a new service that allows people to consolidate the various Google features they use, ranging from web search to email, into a personalized home page. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2004 |
Internet Search Engine Update Froogle... Gigablast... Google... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
November 11, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Unveils its New Search Engine - At Last After months of speculation and two 'preview' releases, Microsoft has taken the wraps off of its new MSN search engine, the first major competitor to join the big leagues of web search in nearly a year. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Changes Results, Increases Submission Price Last week, Yahoo's search results pages underwent probably the most significant change since the service began. Yahoo also increased the price of its Yahoo Express submission service to $299, last month... |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2005
Cade Metz et al. |
Total Recall In recent months, several companies have introduced free applications that let you search your desktop as easily as you search the Web. We put eight of them to the test. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving A new page dedicated just to Yahoo Search has been added, allowing those who want to bypass all the Yahoo portal and network information that crowds the regular Yahoo home page. The Yahoo Search page presents a Google-like pure search face to the world. |
Search Engine Watch
April 5, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Tops, But Yahoo Switch Success So Far New WebSideStory stats say Google's most popular, but they also reveal that Yahoo's recent replacement of Google results with its own technology doesn't appear to have cost it visitors. |
PC World
August 2004
Tom Spring |
Search Tangles Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Latest in Desktop Search Play The Internet portal's beta desktop search tool is the latest addition to the competitive desktop search arena. |
InternetNews
February 1, 2005
Roy Mark |
Microsoft Goes Live With Search Redmond hopes to compete with the likes of Google and Yahoo for a sizable share of the search market. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the voices of each engine are growing even more unique. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Does PDF & Other Changes Google now includes listings of Adobe PDF files from across the web, a first for any major search engine and a feature long overdue for them to offer. By including PDF content in its listings, Google makes its service even more useful for those trying to get into the nooks and crannies of the web... |
Search Engine Watch
October 9, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Renews With Google, Changes Results After months of speculation, Yahoo announced today that it has renewed its relationship to use Google's results as part of its search listings. In addition, Yahoo made a substantial change to end its historic barrier between human-powered and crawler-based search results. |
InternetNews
August 3, 2004
Parker & Rodgers |
Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves Bow Local Search Tools The news follows closely on the heels Google's own local Web search offering. |
Search Engine Watch
April 20, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Personalizes the Web Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google's My Search History feature automatically keeps track of web searches and every page viewed from search results by saving your "search behavior," not web pages. |
Search Engine Watch
June 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Google Gains in Popularity, But Will It Last? Over the past year, Google took significant market share from Yahoo and MSN, according to a new report from industry analyst Hitwise. But the increasing popularity of vertical search sites poses a big threat to all of the major search engines. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Yahoo! Says, "Me Too!" -- Again Just another desktop search application hits the market. |
