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Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
GeoSearch Comes To Northern Light Northern Light debuted a new geographical search capability in April. It allows users to filter results so that only matches relating to a particular "real world" address will appear....   |
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 |
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... |
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
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Gets Search Refinement Feature, Paid Listings Coming Excite's new "Zoom In" search refinement feature debuted on the site last month, and the service will be gaining paid listings later this month... |
ONLINE
March 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista introduced a middle path between its simple and advanced search... Scirus, a scientific search engine... Google has expanded and improved its Advanced Search page... HotBot appears to no longer support any truncation ability... Redesign of the Dogpile metasearch engine... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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
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... |
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
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
A Webby, More Images, Date Range Search & Search Voyeurism At Google Google has enlarged its image search service, added a new date range searching option and unveiled a way to discover popular search topics at the service. The service also received its third Webby award in July... |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Excite Changes Look, Results Excite has released a new look to its search results that also coincides with a new ranking system. The simple design mimics the "less is more" move that AltaVista kicked off in May with its Raging Search... |
Information Today
January 14, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light to Focus on Enterprise Customers, Will Discontinue Free Public Web Search Northern Light Technology announced that it has decided to focus more exclusively on the needs of enterprise customers and, as of January 16, it will no longer be providing free Web search capabilities to the general public... |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Make Room For Teoma After the loss of Go earlier this year and the expected departure of NBCi, you might have thought it was all over in the search engine game. However, just as consolidation seemed inevitable, new player Teoma has stepped up with an impressive debut of its new search service... |
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... |
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.... |
PC World
February 2001
Lisa Cekan |
Navigate the Urban Jungle With Your PDA On the loose, hungry, and armed only with your personal digital assistant? Navigate your way to dinner with free JunglePort software from JungleSoft... |
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. |
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... |
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
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
October 4, 1999 |
Google Gets Out Of Beta Google finally lost its "beta" moniker on September 21, with the new site featuring a cleaner look and a new "GoogleScout" related pages feature. |
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.... |
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
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Security Concerns Security issues with Lycos and Google came up in July. They aren't likely to impact many, if any, users, so don't get panicked. Here's a rundown on what happened... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Searcher
March 2001
Richard Wiggins |
Behind the Screen: Google, Disintermediation, and the Palm Beach Ballot When art meets design, the question always arises of whether form follows function. But good designers care a great deal about whether a given design --- for a ballot, or the radio controls in a Lexus RX-300, or a Web form --- misleads users... |
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
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. |
Searcher
June 2002
Irene E. McDermott |
Where was I? Maps on the Web There is a tremendous amount of spatial data on the World Wide Web: multitudes of maps; armfuls of atlases; cartloads of cartography. Enough to keep a map nerd like myself clicking and dreaming for years. Maps on the Web are designed for many uses, and many of them are free... |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Surplus Of Search Engine Marketing Reports Three different publications released recently cover the issues of selecting a search engine marketing firm, which search engine marketing strategies seem to work and a review of how the web sites of Fortune 100 companies rate in terms of search engine friendliness... |
ONLINE
November 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Searching Beyond Text: Multimedia Search Tools We examine some of the search engines available for tracking down the multimedia files available on the Net... |
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. |
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 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. |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Improves Newsgroups, Makes Inroads To Japan Google has now made the full archives of newsgroup postings it acquired from Deja available via its Google Groups service. They date back to March 29, 1995. The company has also launched a new Japan edition and signed deals with major Japanese portals... |
Search Engine Watch
October 16, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Google Gets Paid Links, Quotes and More Languages Google has debuted a new self-serve paid links program, while also adding more language search support and a feature that allows you to locate stock quotes... |
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... |
Information Today
December 18, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light Officially Launches SinglePoint The SinglePoint enterprise information portal will also search a company's internal documents and other information resources along with all the Web and Special Collection documents provided by Northern Light... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The End For Search Engines? The impending closure of Go only underscores the dramatic changes that have been taking place among the major search engines. Money is tight; new revenue is being sought anywhere, and no one seems guaranteed a future. Will your favorite search engine be around tomorrow? |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Roundup Various changes at search engines, such as the new "Most Popular" feature at AOL to a WAP search engine from AltaVista. |
PC World
August 29, 2001
Steve Bass |
Tips for Super Smart Web Searches A visit to the Google Bar finds dancing Paul and the flying squirrels... |
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... |
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. |
