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Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Invisible Web Gets Deeper A new study estimates that the inaccessible part of the web is about 500 times larger than what search engines already provide access to.   |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
New ProFusion Site Offers Better View Of Invisible Information Intelliseek has launched a new version its ProFusion meta search site that also combines easier access to invisible web information... |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 1999 |
September 99 Search Engine Briefs Covers a new Lycos search utility & Northern Light's govsearch service. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
FAST Gets Bigger, Partners With Lycos FAST Search set a new benchmark in January, when it went unveiled an index of 300 million web pages. This makes it the largest search engine on the web, based on self-reported numbers. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Lycos Partners More Closely With FAST Lycos has finally committed to using FAST Search's results to power the "Web Sites" section of its search results.... |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos To Charge For Search? Well, Not Really Lycos doesn't really plan to sell search subscriptions to consumers. Instead, it hopes to raise revenue from search via webmasters... |
Search Engine Watch
December 6, 1999 |
Lycos Changes Listings Format Lycos has altered the format of its search results page, in order to consistently present more information from different sources within the same space. |
Searcher
October 2001
Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
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. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Up and Coming Search Technologies Search technology is big business on the Net. The most highly visited sites often started off by helping people find something on the Web.... |
ONLINE
November 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Freshness Issue and Complexities with Web Search Engines Understanding the currentness (or freshness) patterns of the search engines' databases helps the searcher to better understand the results and what might not be found... |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2005
Don Labriola |
All My Movies This low-priced program makes it easy to catalog even the largest collection of DVDs, tapes, and video files; embellish entries with cover art and screenshots; and export your listings to text, spreadsheets, or HTML files. |
ONLINE
May 2000
David King |
Specialized Search Engines: Alternatives to the Big Guys Most web searchers can now find almost anything in almost any imaginable field. But sometimes more is not better. At times, you may wish you could sit down to a simplified search engine that finds only on-topic information. Now you can, by using a specialized search engine. |
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
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch Today's relaunch of Lycos is a surprising reversal of the service's decline. If you gave up on Lycos in the past, it is well worth revisiting the improved service... |
Search Engine Watch
December 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Searching With Invisible Tabs Behind the scenes, search engines will one day automatically push the correct tab for your query and retrieve specialized search results. This should ultimately prove an improvement over the current situation where everything is answered by web page matches. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos & FAST Launch Paid Inclusion After months of beta testing, FAST has finally opened its paid inclusion program to the general public. However, FAST is not selling inclusion into its web index directly. Instead, FAST is allowing its search partners to resell the service to web site owners and site promoters... |
Information Today
February 25, 2002 |
News Digest CSA Unveils Two New Engineering Databases... FAST, Lycos Offer Co-Branded Service... SciQuest Launches New Products Derived from SciCentral |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Terra Lycos To Launch Paid Placement Network Terra Lycos is set to enter the paid placement game alongside players such as Overture and Google, when the company opens its "InSite AdBuyer" program to advertisers in the coming weeks. |
Search Engine Watch
May 23, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Meta Search Or Meta Ads? A review of meta search services shows that some are providing results where more than half of their listings are paid links. A guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta search service... |
Information Today
October 4, 2010 |
H.W. Wilson Database Content Included in EBSCO Discovery Service H.W. Wilson databases will soon be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service for mutual customers. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
Meta Search Packages Updated; BullsEye Made Free IntelliSeek has released the next generation of its BullsEye meta search software. I've only started playing with it, but already, I like what I see. The interface has been made cleaner, and it has tight integration within your browser. |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Speaks Out On FTC Complaint At last month's Online Advertising Forum, GoTo's CEO Ted Meisel fired back at the complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission over paid listings on some search engines. His comments were both right and wrong on many points... |
Information Today
March 22, 2004
Gary Price & Barbara Quint |
Lycos HotBot Offers Free DeskTop Toolbar Lycos has launched a free toolbar search product from HotBot, its search service, which the company says is "the first product to integrate traditional desktop search with Web search within the browser." |
Search Engine Watch
April 14, 2004
Chris Sherman |
HotBot's New Desktop Search Toolbar HotBot's new Desktop Search utility not only searches the web, it indexes files and email on your computer, making them searchable as well. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2012
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net: Advanced Search in Retreat Google's many databases and frequent user interface changes show a variety of approaches to advanced searching. Google often leads the way in search design. |
Search Engine Watch
December 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Latest To Carry GoTo Paid Listings AltaVista has become the latest in a string of search engines to carry paid listings provided by GoTo.com... |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2009
Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Patent Wars II: CMGI Strikes Back Tempest in a teapot -- That's what I said in 1997, when Lycos announced it had patents on search engine crawling, and I see nothing different in light of AltaVista's recent claims... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Direct Hit Debuts at MSN Search, Lycos Both MSN Search and Lycos are now featuring Direct Hit results, and the company itself has just received $26 million in financing from a variety of venture firms. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2003
Pamela Parker |
Lycos Europe, Overture Expand Deal, Involve Yahoo! Google and Espotting fail in their bid to replace Yahoo!'s Overture for paid listings on Lycos Europe's search pages. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2003
Ben Elgin |
Sharpen Your Internet Search All search engines are not equal. Knowing where and how to make your queries can help you avoid ads and get exactly the information you want -- fast. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
New Sites In Search Links I managed to work my way through the nearly 300 submissions that had come into the Search Links area of Search Engine Watch. After killing about half that were no way search engines, and viewing way to many metacrawlers to count, I added about 100 new search engines.... |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
Janet Rubenking |
Your Library Online With a library card and an internet connection, you can access a wealth of data from your public library. |
Search Engine Watch
April 4, 2000 |
The Problems With Rating Services Not only are figures from the web's major ratings services are far from perfect, but they can be and are manipulated much more by web property owners than could ever happen when compared to television ratings. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2002
Killmer & Koppel |
So Much Information, So Little Time Evaluating web resources with search engines |
Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2003
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net: A Decade on the Net Looking back over 10 years' worth of columns gives a snapshot of the growth of the Internet as a major information resource and a look at how it has changed. |
ONLINE
May 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Tracking Title Search Capabilities Web page title search capabilities have expanded somewhat, although to nowhere near the levels available in our more sophisticated bibliographic systems... |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Europe's Paid Placement Warriors Unlike in the US, Overture faces competition for major partners in the form of United Kingdom-based Espotting... |
PC World
April 2004
Laurianne McLaughlin |
Beyond Google The Web is so full of useful info that no search engine can find it all. But a multitude of specialty sites deliver shopping advice, reference databases, leisure-time ideas, and more--fast. |
Search Engine Watch
July 17, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Consumer Group Asks FTC To Investigate Search Ads Is it deceptive advertising to include paid listings in your search results and not clearly label them as ads? A group backed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes so, and it's asking the US Federal Trade Commission to take action against seven major search companies... |
Search Engine Watch
September 12, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Finding Disaster Coverage At Search Engines Following the unprecedented terrorist attack on the United States today, web users turned en masse to search engines for information. It took those services some time to adjust to the demand, but as the day progressed, many came up to speed... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Security Concerns Security issues with Lycos and Google came up in July. They aren't likely to impact many, if any, users, so don't get panicked. Here's a rundown on what happened... |
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. |
D-Lib
March 2000
Karen Coyle |
The Virtual Union Catalog: A Comparative Study A Virtual union catalog is a possible alternative to the centralized database of distributed resources found in many library systems. Such a catalog would not be maintained in a single location but would be created in real time by searching each local campus... |
