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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   |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
New MSN Search Emerges In Beta MSN Search has released a new beta version of its service that offers a number of handy features, including upgraded spell-checking, improved query refinement and integration of information from Microsoft's Encarta Enquire reference service... |
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
February 1, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Officially Switches To Its Own Technology Nearly two years after announcing it would develop its own search technology, MSN Search began feeding the general public results found through its own internally developed search engine. |
PC World
February 28, 2002
Tom Spring |
Are Search Results For Sale? Analysis: Search engines walk a tightrope, seeking profit while helping you find what you want... |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
The "New" AltaVista With great fanfare, the "new" AltaVista was launched last week. Now owned by CMGI, the revamped service is being firmly targeted as a challenger against more established portals such as Yahoo, Excite and Lycos. |
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Submitting For Free Now that all of LookSmart's major partners are offering the paid LookSmart Express Submit program on their own Add URL pages, a number of people believe that they must also pay a fee to be listed in the non LookSmart-powered portions of these search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
February 19, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Jupiter Media Metrix Releases New Search Specific Traffic Figures For the first time, comprehensive estimates of search activity by Internet users is being made publicly available, and it sheds new light on which search engines are really the most popular... |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 1999 |
New MSN Search, AOL Search Available in Beta Two major portals are readying new versions of their search services. Both MSN and AOL have made unveiled their next-generation search offerings at beta sites that have just gone live. |
Search Engine Watch
March 25, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
New Look In July, New Search Engine Later, Says MSN MSN announced a redesign for its MSN Search service last week, a cosmetic change that better delineates paid placement listings. But the July release will not coincide with the launch of new underlying technology. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
MSN Adds Preview Screenshots, Ability To Dig Deeper Into Results MSN Search is now showing Search Preview screenshots of web sites in results from within Internet Explorer while also offering the ability to go past the top 200 results. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Releases New Version MSN Search went live with a new version of its site about a week ago. There have been a variety of minor tweaks and design changes, as well as some substantial changes... |
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. |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine In April, news emerged that Microsoft intended to make a huge new investment in web search. Now signs of that investment are appearing. |
ONLINE
July 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Altavista integrates OpenDirectory and Looksmart; Excites launches Photo Search; Google adds new directory, several new features; Inktomi extracts 5x10^6 record GEN3 database; etc. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy AltaVista Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Kim Zetter & Harry McCracken |
How to Stop Searching and Start Finding Tired of wading through useless search-engine results? We test 20 engines to pinpoint the ones that really deliver the goods.... |
InternetNews
January 31, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Launching New Search Tuesday Microsoft's MSN division is to announce switchover to home-grown search technology. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Takes On MSN No one doubts that Yahoo is one of the web's most popular portals. However, unlike its major rivals MSN and AOL, Yahoo has no "browser advantage" to drive traffic to its web site, a weakness that the new Yahoo Essentials program for Internet Explorer aims to correct... |
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. |
InternetNews
May 27, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
MSN China Opens Its Doors Microsoft officially launched its MSN China portal. The new portal follows a recent joint venture agreement and acquisition by Microsoft in China. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
July 18, 2005
Ben Elgin |
Google's Leap May Slow Rivals' Growth MSN and Yahoo! face new challenges as their share of the search engine market falls, but they are offering new search features to remain competitive. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Launches New Search Site AltaVista has launched a search-only site today which follows on improvements the company made to its core database of web pages about a week ago. Called Raging Search, the new site delivers fast and uncluttered listings. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
Growing Pains At Volunteer Directories The use of volunteers generates a different set of problems that webmasters may encounter during the submission process at the Open Directory and Go Guides. |
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 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
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. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
InternetNews
November 4, 2009 |
MSN Home Page Getting an Extreme Makeover Microsoft says the home page revamp will be the most extensive update it has had in ten years. |
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
February 25, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
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. |
PC World
October 15, 2001
Tom Spring |
Microsoft Updates MSN to Release 7 New features: revamped interface, personalization, and custom alerts, plus a broadband push... |
InternetNews
November 11, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN's Latest Search Beta Launched Microsoft's MSN released the latest version of its homegrown search technology on Thursday (beta.search.msn.com), offering multiple ways to narrow results, including providing local results and natural language search. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 5, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
MSN Search Share Anyone's Guess Is MSN gaining or losing search share to Google in North America? It depends who you ask. |
PC Magazine
November 19, 2003 |
MSN Goes Hollywood Want to catch a movie? MSN, Microsoft's online service, is offering a beta version of MSN Video -- its free, high-resolution broadband video service -- to a small group of MSN users for testing. The final version is due this winter. |
Search Engine Watch
March 16, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Launch Its Own Paid Listings Program MSN has announced it will enter the paid search arena with a full-blown self-service paid listing program similar to those run by Yahoo and Google. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses LookSmart has expanded its LookListings paid inclusion program so that small businesses can purchase "deep listings" previously only offered to large businesses with big budgets. |
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. |
InternetNews
December 2, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
MSN Goes to The Blogs Microsoft's MSN launched a blogging tool that ties in with its home media technology plays. Called MSN Spaces, the beta is part of an update to MSN's suite of communication services. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Redesigns, Again AltaVista has once again undertaken another major redesign of its service, the fourth in less than a year. Highlights of major changes. |
