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Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Gets Bigger, Fresher, Offers Better News In December, Google became the first crawler-based search engine to break the 1.5 billion web page mark. In addition, the service rolled out changes designed to improve the freshness of its results and the ability for users to find news...   |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Does PDF & Other Changes Google now includes listings of Adobe PDF files from across the web, a first for any major search engine and a feature long overdue for them to offer. By including PDF content in its listings, Google makes its service even more useful for those trying to get into the nooks and crannies of the web... |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Catalog Search In December, Google rolled out a completely unexpected offering: Google Catalogs. The new service allows you to search through the contents of catalogs from over 600 companies... |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Fiddling with File Types In the computer age, each software program seems to have one or more distinct file types in which it saves individual documents. While the Web has pushed a single format, HTML, one of the Net's great strengths has been its ability to make many other file formats available as well. |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Desktop Search Launched The company released a new Google Desktop Search tool that allows people to scan their computers for information in the same way they use Google to search the web. Its ease of use, plus how it enhances the Google search experience, make it a compelling product to use. |
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
December 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Searching With Invisible Tabs Behind the scenes, search engines will one day automatically push the correct tab for your query and retrieve specialized search results. This should ultimately prove an improvement over the current situation where everything is answered by web page matches. |
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
July 6, 1999 |
Google Goes Forward While I've considered Google a "major player" in the search space for some time, the deal with Netscape gives it a mass audience for the first time, along with its first business deal. |
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
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. |
Search Engine Watch
February 19, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Easy Power Searching with Google Soople is an elegant control console for Google's many powerful advanced features, bringing them all together in a well-designed, easy to use interface. |
Search Engine Watch
October 6, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Print Opens Widely To Publishers Google's nearly year-old Google Print program is set for a huge expansion of content through the launch of a new program today allowing publishers to more easily submit material for inclusion. |
Search Engine Watch
March 17, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Google Pushes Local Search Into the Limelight Google has officially moved local search out of Google Labs and into beta, introducing several noteworthy new features at the same time. |
Search Engine Watch
December 6, 1999 |
Google Loses Virginity But Gains A Virgin And so finally it's come -- advertising on Google. They promised something other than banners when the site came out of beta, and Google delivers on that promise. |
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 3, 2000 |
Google Speaks Languages, WAP, Adds Other Features Google has unveiled beta versions of its site for non-English speakers and those accessing the web using wireless devices. The search engine has also added new features to its search results and launched a new "university" search engine. |
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
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
March 29, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Loses Tabs In New Look, Gains Web Alerts & Personalized Search Results Google has rolled a new look that involves dropping its famed search tabs, along with debuting a web alerts service and a personalized search results option. |
Information Today
February 18, 2002
Richard W. Wiggins |
Google Unveils New Server Appliance Web search engine company Google has announced a new line of server appliances intended for enterprises that wish to harness its crawling, searching, and page-ranking capabilities in order to index millions of documents hidden behind corporate firewalls... |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Google Gets Kid Safe, Suggests Maps Google has added a new feature to filter adult content out of its listings, and the search engine now also provides links to online maps in response to relevant queries. |
Search Engine Watch
October 21, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Local Search Part 2: Google & Mobilemaps Bring Back Geosearching How Google and Mobilemaps are making it possible to search the web yet filter results to a local level |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 12, 2006
Tim Gray |
Google Touts Bigger Mini The latest version of Google Mini is available with two new capacity upgrades. |
Search Engine Watch
April 25, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google In Controversy Over Top-Ranking For Anti-Jewish Site Google has added a disclaimer to the search results that come up in a response for a search on jew, to counter complaints about an anti-Jewish site that until recently ranked number one. |
Search Engine Watch
June 3, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Coping With GDS, The Google Dance Syndrome On a roughly monthly basis, Google updates its index of web pages and introduces new tweaks and changes to how its ranking algorithm works. For some, the changeover period that's come to be known as the "Google Dance" may reveal what seems like dramatic changes in Google. |
PC World
September 25, 2002
Linda Rosencrance |
Google Search Leads to Gates of 'Hell' A devilish phrase typed into the search engine reaps Microsoft's Web site as top result. |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Going Beyond HTML Raises Security Concerns With Google Now that Google is indexing a wide range of document types beyond HTML and plain text formats, potential security concerns are cropping up, both for searchers and webmasters... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Answers Service, API Program Google introduced two new interesting features last month. The first, Google Answers, is a beta program that allows users to get personal answers from a professional researcher, in exchange for a fee. The second allows programmers to use the new Google Web APIs... |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Google Stumbles Google's policy is to not give guidance. That doesn't change the fact that it did disappoint Wall Street with its fourth-quarter numbers. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Surprised Google & Microsoft Talked Takeover? You Shouldn't Be! No one should have been surprised that the companies have talked about a possible purchase. It made sense then. As for now, a more realistic possibility is that the two companies might partner in the short term. |
Search Engine Watch
June 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
New Google WebSearch Program Pays Publishers For Searches Google has released two new services allowing site owners to install web search capabilities on their own sites, including one that pays. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
New At Google: More File Types, Page Snapshots For Some, & Webmaster Help Not content with being the only major search engine to list PDF files, Google now lists Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from across the web, as well as Rich Text Format and PostScript files... |
Search Engine Watch
January 22, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service Google has quietly launched a social networking service called orkut, named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google employee who developed the project during personal time allowed to him by Google. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Is AltaVista's Stale Index The Last Blow? Earlier this year, it emerged that AltaVista had not refreshed any of its country-specific web page indexes for months. Now, it turns out that the main global database is also several months old... |
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
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Adds Languages, Phone Book And More Want your search engine to talk to you like a Swedish chef? The new Bork Bork Bork option is just one of new language interfaces you can set for Google. The search engine has also unveiled a new page translation option and a phone book feature. |
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
April 4, 2000 |
Google Adds Directory Users continue to rave about the quality of Google's search results, and that's testimony that its link analysis system works well at delivering relevant information. Now Google is applying link analysis in a new way, to the human powered information of the Open Directory. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Personalization Out of The Gate Google flipped the switch on Google Personalized Search on Thursday, turning it on for all users when they create a new Google account. |
PC World
December 31, 2007
Scott Spanbauer |
Advanced Google: Search Faster, Find More Save time and effort with our favorite search shortcuts. |
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.... |
Search Engine Watch
September 16, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
China's Great Wall Against Google And AltaVista So can people in China get to Google or not? Yes, apparently so. However, there are still reports of trouble when conducting particular searches, which suggest that some selective blocking is happening. Meanwhile, the situation with AltaVista being blocked appears to continue. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
December 17, 2003
Chris Sherman |
Google Introduces Book Searches Google has launched an experimental program that indexes excerpts of popular books, blending the content from these works into regular Google search results. |
Search Engine Watch
November 19, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
AOL Buys Singingfish, Rolls Out More Search Changes AOL has acquired Singingfish, a multimedia search engine, and unveiled additional features to the AOL Search service designed for its members. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has expanded the number of file types it indexes... Gigablast has been rather busy -- adding full Boolean searching, the indexing of PDF and other file types, and some metatags... Google has introduced a new operator, the tilde, for searching synonyms... etc. |
