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Search Engine Watch June 4, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Excite Kills Magellan; WebCrawler Remains Excite@Home's Magellan search service, long abandoned by users and Excite itself, was finally put out of its misery and quietly closed about two months ago... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch September 3, 1999 |
Excite Enlarging Index, Partnered With LookSmart In August, Excite began the first phase of an ambitious plan to enlarge its search index to 250 million web pages and improve the relevancy of its search results. The search engine also debuted new LookSmart-powered directory listings. |
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2000 |
Movement In Meta Search Meta search engine ProFusion was acquired by search utility maker Intelliseek in April, making it the third major meta search engine to be gobbled up in recent months. |
Search Engine Watch May 23, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Meta Search Or Meta Ads? A review of meta search services shows that some are providing results where more than half of their listings are paid links. A guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta search service... |
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Excite Closes NewsTracker, Search Voyeur Excite is closing its NewsTracker service as of November 15, while its Search Voyeur live display feature closed last month... |
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 February 26, 2004 Chris Sherman |
ZapMeta: A Promising New Meta Search Engine A new meta search engine offers speedy, relevant results, and some cool visualization features that actually make it easy to check out sponsored listings without leaving your result page. |
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2003 Greg Jarboe |
Meta Search Engines are Back It's been a busy year for the major meta search engines, with a number of notable developments that have restored their usefulness as worthy search tools. |
Search Engine Watch September 4, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Excite May Be Out; FAST Has Further Layoffs The future looks dim for Excite@Home, which operates the Excite search engine. The company has creditors calling in their loans, putting it into possible bankruptcy. Meanwhile, FAST Search has had its second round of layoffs this year... |
Fast Company October 2000 Gina Imperato |
Keep It to One Page! We've evaluated some Web tools that are designed to let you assemble your favorite sites, or even portions of your favorite sites, into a single page -- the ultimate shortcut to keeping track of the information that you need. |
Search Engine Watch October 1, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Death Of A Meta Tag Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine -- Inktomi -- the value of adding meta keywords tags to pages seems little worth the time. |
Search Engine Watch July 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Excite Makes Changes Excite has finished making changes to its search interface, mostly minor alterations that that service hopes will improve usability. Here's what you will find that's different... |