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InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines?   |
InternetNews
August 24, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Battle for Search Share in Lower Tier The latest search engine share rankings show Google maintaining its lead over Yahoo, with upstarts gaining points. |
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... |
Searcher
March 2002
Barbara Quint |
Guilt and Money As a professional searcher, it is my job to ensure that the client gets value received for their information dollar through the acquisition of the most relevant, accurate, and authoritative information available at the best possible price/time payment... |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2011
Eli Goodman |
Q&A Search: Who, What, Where, When, Why & How Each of these question search terms tell their own story. A look at why the consumer experience on your website, and the ensuing return visitation if satisfied, is so important in the Q&A space. |
Search Engine Watch
May 5, 2005
Anne Kennedy |
What Clicks with Web Searchers How do searchers find what they want online? Not the way most people might think, studies show. For example, more than 92 percent of searchers never use brand names as search terms. |
InternetNews
December 14, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Industry Gains Clout Search engines are now recognized as full-fledged media companies and search engine marketing is no longer a cottage industry. |
Search Engine Watch
January 24, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present results. |
Information Today
November 29, 2010
Greg R. Notess |
Yahoo! Clues: A New Source for Search Data Yahoo! Clues presents information about popular searches that have been done by the "millions of people who use Yahoo! to search each day." Similar to Google Trends and Google Insights for Search, Clues has both similar and unique data points. |
Search Engine Watch
April 26, 2005
Andrew Goodman |
Viewing the Search Landscape Which search engine appeals most to U.S. searchers? Which service is the most popular elsewhere in the world? It depends on who you ask, and how they're measuring. |
Searcher
February 2002
Barbara Quint |
Google: (v.) How long before the executives at Google.com hear the verb "to google" used around the old water cooler or see it written in print? Will they �-- like Xerox Corporation or Coca Cola Inc. before them �-- initiate a campaign of lawsuits to protect their brand name? |
Information Today
October 8, 2007
Greg R. Notess |
Microsoft and Yahoo! Update Search In the evolution of Web searching, 2007 has become the year of multimedia integration, as major Web search engines have incorporated images and videos into the results for some searches. |
Search Engine Watch
February 22, 2007
Greg Jarboe |
Stats Show Google Dominates the International Search Landscape What is the most popular search engine in the UK? In Europe? In the world? |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Google's Global Reach is Ginormous ComScore study finds that, of 61 billion searches performed worldwide in August, Google handled 61 percent to Microsoft's 3.6 percent. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Unusual Power Web Searching Commands These are tools that you may never use or may only try once in a year of searching. But for those who like to dig deeper, who seek the hard-to-find information nuggets, using these commands can help you mine the Internet for information in ways that others will never consider. |
Searcher
December 2002
Barbara Quint |
Unpleasantness On negotiating an information service license. |
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... |
InternetNews
April 12, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Another Month And More Google Growth Google accounted for 64 percent of all U.S. searches. Yahoo hangs on to second place, but it has a Panama trick up its sleeve that it's hoping to boost its share. |
Searcher
February 2001
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Dot-Lib Why there should be a .lib top level domain. |
Searcher
July 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Elusive Un-Client Now that online information has moved so many of the tasks formerly performed as intermediated searches to end users, professional searchers have the time to pursue new opportunities for service. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
Michael J. Miller |
A Nation of Searchers Search sites in general, and Google in particular, are growing rapidly. This past year has also seen significant growth in MySpace and other Internet communities. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Tops In Search Hours Ratings What's the most popular search engine? There's a new metric available for determining this, the total number of search hours users spend at a site, a figure that sees Google leading by far over other search engines |
Searcher
April 2001
Wallace Koehler |
Dot-Lib for Libraries -- Can It Happen? Ask ICANN If museums have their own gTLD, why not libraries? That's simple enough, but reaching that goal may be a bit more complex... |
Searcher
October 2001
Barbara Quint |
The Blame Game A young, healthy woman died this year because of a poor literature search. Whose fault was it? And, more important, is she the first and the last? |
Information Today
August 7, 2001
Eva Perkins |
Johns Hopkins' Tragedy: Could Librarians Have Prevented a Death? Looking at this case, it would appear that medical librarians may currently be better prepared than biomedical researchers to conduct medical literature searches and that the best searches would involve researchers and their librarians working closely together... |
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... |
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. |
Searcher
January 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What's Next? Has the world of one giant and universal LIBRARY finally arrived? Stay tuned. This is an issue we have covered regularly and will continue to cover this year and beyond, I suspect. |
D-Lib
September 2000 |
To the Editor Letters received in response to the story, Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? |
Searcher
March 2001
Richard Wiggins |
Behind the Screen: Google, Disintermediation, and the Palm Beach Ballot When art meets design, the question always arises of whether form follows function. But good designers care a great deal about whether a given design --- for a ballot, or the radio controls in a Lexus RX-300, or a Web form --- misleads users... |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
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... |
Searcher
Howard S. Homan |
Making the Case for Patent Searchers? What is a searcher and what do they do? |
Search Engine Watch
October 19, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Searching for a Good Searching Book? Here's a compilation of reviews for books designed to help you sharpen your searching skills. |
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. |
Information Today
May 29, 2007
Greg R. Notess |
Google Universal and Its New Navigation At Google's Searchology event, Google announced several major changes at the search engine, all of which have now begun to appear in Google results. |
Searcher
June 2012
Barbara Quint |
The Doctor Is In Now that everyone's an end-user searcher, now that intermediated searching is such a rarity, what has happened to the reference interview? |
Searcher
October 2002
Gary D. Price |
Specialized Search Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues An introduction to specialized search engine searching |
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.... |
Information Today
Barbara Quint |
Amazon Introduces New Web Search Engine Amazon.com's technical research subsidiary, A9, has released a new search engine that combines Google searching of the Web with searches of Amazon's own full-text collection of books and site information from Amazon's Alexa service. |
InternetNews
November 20, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
Google's Search Lead Still Growing A new survey finds the search giant gaining market share as rivals Microsoft and Yahoo slip, despite efforts to revamp their offerings. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
April 22, 2002
Tara Calishain |
New Google Answers Service Raises a Few Questions of Its Own Have a burning question? Google Answers charges for the answers and has built a group of external researchers to respond to the questions... |
Search Engine Watch
September 14, 2004
Heather Lloyd-Martin |
Delving Deep Inside the Searcher's Mind Industry experts from Enquiro, Vividence, iProspect and Google asked searchers, "What are you thinking?" Their research unearthed some surprising results that will help site owners better understand their customers. |
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
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/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. |
Searcher
September 2002
Barbara Quint |
The Eternal Watchdog What exactly will information professionals -- librarians or professional searchers or whatever you want to call us -- do in the future? What set of skills will we possess that will both identify us to our clients and earn us the big bucks? |
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.... |
