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Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Now Charging Annual Listing Fee Yahoo is now requiring that new sites seeking to be listed in its commercial areas pay an annual listing fee of $299, or $600 if they are adult sites. Previously, the fee had been a one-time charge. The change transforms Yahoo from being a web guide to a sort of online yellow pages...   |
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.... |
Searcher
March 2003
Stephen E. Arnold |
In Search of the Good Search: The Invisible Elephant Search remains a challenging human-computer issue. |
PC Magazine
September 14, 2005
Pike et al. |
The Experts' Guide to Google Yahoo MSN and AOL A review of the search, Web mail, instant-messaging services and uncover other features of the four largest portals. |
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... |
ONLINE
May 2000
Chris Sherman |
The Future Revisited: What's New with Web Search Some thoughts on what the future of web searching may hold... |
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
September 2002
Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Early Bird Deadline For SES San Jose Tomorrow!... LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses... Yahoo To Buy Overture... Search Engine Resources |
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
September 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... SES Dates For 2004 Set... Search Engine Size Wars IV & Google's Supplemental Index |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
November 2000
Donald T. Hawkins |
Online World 2000-The End of an Era When Susan M. Klopper asked me to be one of the four panelists in the Schmoozin' with Susan: (W)Rap Session at the end of the Online World 2000 conference, I didn't know that it would be the last wrap session in the 22-year history of this event... |
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
July 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report - Number 80 Search Engine Watch News... SES San Jose Agenda Now Available... Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine... Overture's Content Match Takes On Google's Contextual Ads... Google AdSense Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites... etc. |
Information Today
June 2002
Donald T. Hawkins |
The Search Engine Meeting 2002 For anyone interested in search engines, this annual meeting is a major event on the conference calendar and should not be missed. The quality of the presentations is very high, as is the content... |
Information Today
August 6, 2009
Avi Rappoport |
The Big Three of Web Search Becomes the Big Two For end-user searchers and intermediaries, this search engine merging is a loss: Consolidation means common queries are likely to have more helpful results, but the variety and diversity provide more results for unusual questions, the long tail of search. |
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
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. |
Information Today
January 2001 |
What's Ahead for 2001? Information Today has asked a group of information industry movers and shakers about the present state of the industry, as well as where they think it's going. The contributions below range from the serious to the not-so, but we're sure you'll find them all thought-provoking... |
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. |
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.... |
D-Lib
June 2004
Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
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. |
Information Today
June 2003
Donald T. Hawkins |
The Eighth Search Engine Meeting After last year's detour to San Francisco, the Search Engine Meeting returned to Boston April 7-8 for its eighth annual gathering. The Search Engine meetings annually show that searching is by no means a fully developed technology. |
Information Today
May 31, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
Ask Jeeves Hopes to Zoom Ahead of Competitors Ask Jeeves, usually seen as an also-ran to Google and Yahoo!, has just introduced some core search innovations that it says will significantly improve the relevance and speed of users' searches. |
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. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2005
Marie Swift |
Getting on Google There's an art to ranking high on various search engines. Mastering it will help you draw more potential financial advisory clients to your Web site. |
Search Engine Watch
July 21, 2004
Christine Churchill |
Meet The Crawlers Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines. The general focus for the major search engines continues to be on the user experience. |
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
July 2000
Chris Sherman |
Humans Do It Better: Inside the Open Directory Project many who take on the daunting task of cataloging the Web find themselves hopelessly ensnared. The crew of the Open Directory Project (ODP) has avoided this unfortunate fate, and in the process have seen their efforts gain an unprecedented acceptance. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Google Announces Largest Index Another milestone in the search engine size wars was hit when Google went live with a full-text index of 560 million URLs in June, making it the largest search engine on the web.... |
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. |
Searcher
October 2002
Gary D. Price |
Specialized Search Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues An introduction to specialized search engine searching |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Search Engine Strategies Coming To London, San Jose... Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving... Google Buys Applied Semantics... Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter... Inktomi, Google Win In Recent Relevancy Test... etc. |
PC World
May 2006
Dylan Tweney |
101 Fabulous Freebies The best things in life aren't just free -- they're indispensable. Case in point: these outrageously useful downloads, sites, and services. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the 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. |
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. |
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. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb has made several significant changes... AltaVista has several undocumented proximity and order operators available on its advanced search... Excite is undergoing a major transition... Google has been busy in recent months introducing several new features... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization Most search engines come nowhere near monetizing all the links displayed on their search results pages. However, the quest for greater profits is likely to change this, especially if the search engines think it can be done without hurting the relevancy of their product... |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
Netscape Search Gets Rebuilt Netscape released a new version of its Netscape Search service in June. Previously powered by Excite, the new service now draws on the Open Directory and Google for its listings. It's a powerful combination that makes Netscape Search worth considering among your top search choices. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Time For The Search Dividend? We may be seeing the beginning of a search dividend coming to searchers, now that several of the major search engines are maturing their new business models... |
Search Engine Watch
September 27, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
End Of Size Wars? Google Says Most Comprehensive But Drops Home Page Count Google is dropping from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive collection of web documents available to searchers. |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
More Than Just Music Search Describes how to find MP3 files with tools like Napster and how these same tools may be used for other types of searching in the future. |
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. |
JavaWorld
September 2000
Brian Goetz |
The Lucene search engine: Powerful, flexible, and free Lucene is a Java-based open source toolkit for text indexing and searching. It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful -- a model of good object-oriented software architecture. We explore what Lucene does, how it works, and what software engineers can learn from its design... (3,400 words) |
