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Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lawsuit Over Paid Placements To Define Search Engines A new chapter in search engine law was opened last week, when Mark Nutritionals filed lawsuits seeking $440 million in damages for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition against AltaVista, FindWhat, Kanoodle and Overture...   |
Search Engine Watch
December 6, 1999 |
Search Engine Lawsuits O'Plenty There's been a lot of legal action revolving around search engines recently, and especially last week. Below is a summary of the various cases. |
Inc.
March 2005
Lora Kolodny |
Does Google Enable Trademark Infringement? Are the Google lads up to no good? Lawsuits that charge search engines with trademark infringement could upend online advertising... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Roundup Various changes at search engines, such as the new "Most Popular" feature at AOL to a WAP search engine from AltaVista. |
InternetNews
January 16, 2004
Colin Haley |
AOL Mulls Options in Playboy Case The ISP has three choices after an appeals court rules that an ad-related trademark case against its Netscape subsidiary can proceed. |
InternetNews
January 23, 2004
Colin Haley |
AOL Settles Playboy Suit After suffering a legal setback last week, the ISP settles a trademark suit by Hugh Hefner's adult entertainment empire. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Options for customizing or personalizing the search forms seems to be the new change of the month... AltaVista has made several significant changes in the past several months... Deja.com has lost much of its older Usenet archives... Excite has modified its results display... etc. |
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
November 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AllTheWeb has added advertisements to its search engine... AltaVista finally has a new CEO... BrightPlanet has released version 2.0 of its LexiBot desktop client... Excite started clustering its results by site... Google also has a new CEO... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
February 20, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Legal Rulings On Image Search & Meta Tags In the right circumstances, image search engines don't violate copyright and using another company's trademarks in meta tags isn't infringement, two separate court cases have found... |
ONLINE
March 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista introduced a middle path between its simple and advanced search... Scirus, a scientific search engine... Google has expanded and improved its Advanced Search page... HotBot appears to no longer support any truncation ability... Redesign of the Dogpile metasearch engine... |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lasoo Makes Geosearching Visual Imagine if your search results were overlaid upon a map. It would be a useful view to have for geographically-related searches and one that Lasoo provides... |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
HotBot Is Reborn Terra Lycos has been saying for ages that the HotBot site was slated for desperately-needed improvements, and now they've come. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Subtle But Helpful Changes At HotBot Unlike at Lycos.com, Lycos-owned HotBot has no dramatic search provider announcements. HotBot says that it is pleased with its current major providers, Direct Hit and Inktomi, plus says that having a different mix helps the site appeal to a different audience than those using Lycos.com. |
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
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. |
ONLINE
January 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Customization Options for Web Searching The summer of 2000 witnessed several search engines suddenly offering such settings. Searchers now have more options and settings available for a variety of search and display features... |
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... |
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
July 5, 2000 |
Excite Changes Look, Results Excite has released a new look to its search results that also coincides with a new ranking system. The simple design mimics the "less is more" move that AltaVista kicked off in May with its Raging Search... |
Search Engine Watch
December 18, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
HotBot Launches In Europe Lycos Europe has quietly launched its new HotBot UK, France and German sites this month... |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Playboy's Comeback Year The company appears to be turning itself around after some lackluster years. The share price is up about 40% over the past 12 months, and management expects 2004 to be a good year for the bunny. |
Inc.
December 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
Clicks for Cash Earning more from your website. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Closes NewsTracker, Search Voyeur Excite is closing its NewsTracker service as of November 15, while its Search Voyeur live display feature closed last month... |
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... |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft to Beta Test Content Ads Microsoft next week will begin beta testing a new advertising offering for its online properties - keyword ads on content pages. |
AskMen.com
January 31, 2001
Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
February 23, 2004
Chris Sherman |
A Fun Multi-Search Tool Queryster lets you quickly get results from ten different search engines, simply by clicking an icon. It's a great way to compare the different 'personalities' of search engines. |
Information Today
January 14, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light to Focus on Enterprise Customers, Will Discontinue Free Public Web Search Northern Light Technology announced that it has decided to focus more exclusively on the needs of enterprise customers and, as of January 16, it will no longer be providing free Web search capabilities to the general public... |
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
September 3, 1999 |
Excite Enlarging Index, Partnered With LookSmart In August, Excite began the first phase of an ambitious plan to enlarge its search index to 250 million web pages and improve the relevancy of its search results. The search engine also debuted new LookSmart-powered directory listings. |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite May Be Out; FAST Has Further Layoffs The future looks dim for Excite@Home, which operates the Excite search engine. The company has creditors calling in their loans, putting it into possible bankruptcy. Meanwhile, FAST Search has had its second round of layoffs this year... |
Information Today
March 27, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light Readies New Free Business Search Engine In addition to searching the best of the web's business news sources and blogs for free, the new Northern Light Search now provides text analytics and "meaning extraction" capabilities from Northern Light's MI Analyst application. |
Information Today
December 16, 2002 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Lycos Launches New Version of HotBot... The British Library Teams up with Adobe for Secure EDD... Classical.com Offers Library Subscription Service |
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. |
ONLINE
January 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Recent months have seen a spate of announcements about paid submissions and other commercial endeavors... AlltheWeb has added several multimedia databases from Fast Search and Transfer... AltaVista will add "Sponsored Listings" from GoTo... 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
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite, NBCi Reduce Workforce Along with other search-oriented services, Excite and NBCi also cut staff in January... |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Makes Changes Excite has finished making changes to its search interface, mostly minor alterations that that service hopes will improve usability. Here's what you will find that's different... |
