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Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
iWon Wins Users If you've got to search, why not have a chance to win some money at the same time? That's the premise behind iWon -- a portal that gives cash prizes to its users. And it's a model that's seems to be working.   |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
iWon Expands Search Offerings Over the past three months, iWon has been adding new search resources to its site. |
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. |
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
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
iWon, Canada.com Go Paid Placement Two more portals -- iWon and Canada.com -- have switched over to using paid placement listings, following a similar move that Go.com made in March... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now uses a keyword-in-context (KWIC) display in their search results... AltaVista has made some major updates... GigaBlast, a new search engine launched last summer, is now offering a site search product... Inktomi has sold its enterprise search software to Verity... etc. |
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
December 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
iWon Gets Factual iWon is trying a new tact of providing factual information directly within its search results... |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Being Search Boxed To Death General purpose search engines often can do many different jobs. Nevertheless, your results might be better if you turn to a vertical tool. This may be the year that the general purpose search engines finally figure out a way to get the right vertical tools into the hands of their users... |
PC World
January 17, 2001
Glenn McDonald |
Frequent Clickers: Rewards Lure E-Shoppers Online shops partner to provide loyalty programs that invite you to surf for dollars... |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Inktomi Reenters Battle For Biggest It's been over a year since one could consider Inktomi among the largest search engines on the web. The company's crawler-built index of web pages has stayed static at 110 million, while competitors such as AltaVista, FAST and Northern Light have pushed past the 200 and 300 million marks. Now Inktomi says it's back. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
June 8, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi To Acquire Ultraseek From Go.com Inktomi has announced that it is to acquire Ultraseek Corporation, the subsidiary of Go.com that produces search software used by web sites and companies for site-specific and Intranet searching. The acquisition is expected to close in November, Inktomi says. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion At Search Engines Gains Ground Paid inclusion, now in place at Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and Inktomi, guarantee to site owners that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur... |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
Numbers, Numbers -- But What Do They Mean? Some search engines now tell you both how many pages they've spidered and what they've kept. This article helps you make sense of the numbers. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi To Offer Paid Submit Option In the wake of LookSmart's new pay-for-consideration system, Inktomi has just announced that it will offer a pay for inclusion service later this year. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Google & FAST Move Up In Size Google announced last week that its size has increased to 602 million pages that have been fully-indexed and to 1.25 million pages when partially indexed material is included. The announcement came just about week after FAST Search had gained the title of biggest search engine... |
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
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Can Portals Resist The Dark Side? The battle now raging over profits in the search space may not be as dramatic as Star Wars, but there's definitely an element of the Dark Side as two more search engines -- iWon and Canada.com -- have shifted over to using paid placement listings. Will other search engines follow? |
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
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
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Launches New Paid Inclusion Program, Search Improvements Inktomi has rolled out a new paid inclusion program aimed at large content providers. In addition, the company has also unveiled new changes to how the service indexes and ranks web pages... |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Network Solutions Launches Inktomi Paid Inclusion Network Solutions was Inktomi's first paid inclusion partner, announced way back in the middle of last year. Finally, that partnership has gone live, with Network Solutions now offering guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi web index through its web site... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Debuts Self-Serve Paid Inclusion In a landmark move, Inktomi announced a new partnership with Position Technologies this week that allows site owners to pay for guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi index... |
Search Engine Watch
March 15, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Moreover Powers AltaVista, NBCi News Search Information from news search engine Moreover is now available at both AltaVista and NBCi, giving users of these services easier access to quality news content from across the web. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart First To Charge Commercial Sites After months of beta testing, LookSmart has become the first major search service to charge commercial sites to be reviewed for inclusion in its listings. In addition, the revenue-generating move appears to have helped LookSmart win back its former position as AltaVista's directory provider. |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Increases Size, Introduces Anti-Proximity Last month Inktomi rolled out a larger, 2 billion web page index, as well as making some internal changes designed to improve the relevancy of its listings. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi's Free Add URL Penalty Submitting your page to Inktomi via the free Add URL pages of its partners such as HotBot causes them to incur a ranking penalty. Relax, it's not as bad as it sounds, though disclosure of this change, made in the middle of last year, would have saved us some confusion... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Spam Database Left Open To Public Inktomi suffered an embarrassing lack of security last week, when it was discovered that a copy of its database of spam and porn sites was left open to the public... |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Adds More Fresh Pages, Changes Robots.txt & 403 Errors, Gains iWon Over the past month, Google has stepped up the number of pages that it is spidering on a daily basis in an effort to increase the freshness of its database. The search engine has also picked up iWon as a new customer for its search results. |
Information Today
November 18, 2002
Avi Rappoport |
Verity Buys Inktomi Enterprise Search Software Verity, an enterprise knowledge management vendor headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., announced that it is purchasing Inktomi's enterprise search software business for $25 million in cash. |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Expands Inclusion Partners In conjunction with last month's Search Engine Strategies conference, Inktomi announced a number of new partners who are reselling its paid inclusion programs... |
