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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... |
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 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 Jul/Aug 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb has had a redesign and new features added... AltaVista has begun a freshness initiative to bring its entire database more up-to-date... Answer Services have been popular... AOL Search will switch from Inktomi to Google this summer... Direct Hit no longer available... etc. |
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. |
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. |
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 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 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... |
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. |
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 Sep/Oct 2003 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now offers suggested spelling corrections.... Altavista has loaded larger multimedia databases for its image, audio, and video searches... AOL Search has added an image search database... Ask Jeeves has sold off its enterprise search division... 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. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has been busy, adding full Boolean searching, redesigning its site, and looking towards a new owner... AltaVista joins AlltheWeb in getting bought out, and by the same company, Overture... Google has been active the past few months, but not with its usual search activities... etc. |
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 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... |
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 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... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch June 4, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Fourth Time Lucky For AltaVista? AltaVista could give Madonna a run for her money in the changing your image game. Earlier this month, the service once again significantly changed the look and feel of its service, the fourth such redesign in just over a year. Fortunately, AltaVista may have gotten it right, this time... |
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. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2003 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb is now indexing and including Microsoft Word files available on the Web.... AltaVista has added a few new features to its news search... Ask Jeeves has announced that it will no longer have banner ads on its site... Google has been busy on the experimental front again... etc. |
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. |
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 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. |
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 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 September 2001 Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update After several months of announcing the death or significant retrenchment of many of the old search engines, it is a pleasure to be able to report more new search engines that, despite the dot com economic downturn, are currently offering free access to their services... |
Search Engine Watch March 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Blending Vertical Results & Other AltaVista Improvements Over the past month, AltaVista has been busy making some under-the-hood changes to improve its search results. In particular, the service has upgraded its shopping search and is blending links that lead to its shopping search engine for appropriate queries into its main results... |
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 March 4, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
New Look, New Features At AltaVista That ever-changing service AltaVista has once again altered its appearance, as well as having added some new features... |
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 July 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Opens Paid Inclusion After months of talking about it, AltaVista finally unveiled a paid inclusion program last week... |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2004 Greg R. Notess |
Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? Search engines have tripped over each other this past year in offering up toolbars. Yet the insidious fault of toolbars lies in the over-reliance on the search engine that their constant presence engenders. |
ONLINE May 2001 Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update With the crash of the dot com economy, it is perhaps no surprise to see some search engines disappearing from the scene as well. This month's update notes the death of both the Infoseek Web search engine and the Deja.com Usenet search engine... |
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 6, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web... |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Submission Changes & Other Developments AltaVista has a new Add URL system that promises faster addition of web pages to the index, as long as you are not using automated submit software... |
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Latest To Carry GoTo Paid Listings AltaVista has become the latest in a string of search engines to carry paid listings provided by GoTo.com... |
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 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... |
PC Magazine October 28, 2003 |
20 Great Google Secrets You already love searching with google. These tips can make finding what you need even easier. |
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.... |
Searcher September 2002 Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 1999 |
August 99 Search Engine Briefs HotBot has added a "Search Within" feature to its site. After you do a search, look to the right of the search box on the results page. You'll see a "Search within these results" option. Select the option, then enter new terms, and HotBot will run your query against only the pages that were found from the original search. |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Excite@Home Goes Bankrupt; AltaVista Cuts Staff Two of the web's oldest search engines had more bad financial news, with Excite@Home filing for bankruptcy last Friday and AltaVista also announcing a new round of layoffs last month... |
ONLINE May/Jun 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!... |
Search Engine Watch January 4, 2000 |
FAST Upgrades Site FAST Search has upgraded its service to allow searching by language, added the ability to limit searches to title or URL text, and introduced new relevancy algorithms. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2004 |
Internet Search Engine Update Froogle... Gigablast... Google... etc. |
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.... |