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Information Today
November 19, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
FAST Unveils New Version of AllTheWeb.com The new AllTheWeb quickly caught the attention of all the well-known search engine gurus and has already garnered wide acclaim for its enhancements...   |
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. |
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 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. |
Search Engine Watch
April 6, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Playing with Kids' Search Engines Tips on enabling porn filters for major search engines. And a link to just-updated listings and reviews of search engines for kids. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
FAST Gets Bigger, Partners With Lycos FAST Search set a new benchmark in January, when it went unveiled an index of 300 million web pages. This makes it the largest search engine on the web, based on self-reported numbers. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos & FAST Launch Paid Inclusion After months of beta testing, FAST has finally opened its paid inclusion program to the general public. However, FAST is not selling inclusion into its web index directly. Instead, FAST is allowing its search partners to resell the service to web site owners and site promoters... |
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. |
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 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. |
Searcher
October 2002
Gary D. Price |
Specialized Search Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues An introduction to specialized search engine searching |
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. |
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
September 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... SES Dates For 2004 Set... Search Engine Size Wars IV & Google's Supplemental Index |
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
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
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. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts An online searcher offers tips and practical advice on efficient and effective online searching using shortcuts and prefixes. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses LookSmart has expanded its LookListings paid inclusion program so that small businesses can purchase "deep listings" previously only offered to large businesses with big budgets. |
Search Engine Watch
December 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
In Search Of The Relevancy Figure Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. Turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge, but necessary, challenge. |
Information Today
June 24, 2002 |
News Digest FAST Claims Its AllTheWeb.com Is Now the World's Largest Search Engine... Industry Leaders Adopt Google Corporate Search Products... EBSCO Announces NoveList Enhancements, Content Agreements |
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 25, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch Today's relaunch of Lycos is a surprising reversal of the service's decline. If you gave up on Lycos in the past, it is well worth revisiting the improved service... |
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... |
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
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Early Bird Deadline For SES San Jose Tomorrow!... LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses... Yahoo To Buy Overture... Search Engine Resources |
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 5, 2000 |
Lycos Partners More Closely With FAST Lycos has finally committed to using FAST Search's results to power the "Web Sites" section of its search results.... |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Terra Lycos To Launch Paid Placement Network Terra Lycos is set to enter the paid placement game alongside players such as Overture and Google, when the company opens its "InSite AdBuyer" program to advertisers in the coming weeks. |
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. |
Information Today
March 3, 2003
Barbara Quint |
Overture Acquires Two Major Web Search Engines On Feb. 18, Overture, which claims to be the "world's leading provider of Pay-For-Performance search to Web sites," announced that it had acquired AltaVista, a pioneer Web search engine. A week later, Overture announced that it had acquired all the Web search assets of Norwegian-owned FAST. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report - Number 80 Search Engine Watch News... SES San Jose Agenda Now Available... Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine... Overture's Content Match Takes On Google's Contextual Ads... Google AdSense Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites... etc. |
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
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
Jul/Aug 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has added a dictionary look-up... Ask Jeeves has launched Ask Jeeves 5.0... Daypop has expanded to include 19,000 more blogs... Recently Gigablast has expanded to include a chief management officer and a chief scientist... Google has purchased Applied Semantics... etc. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Search Engine Strategies Coming To London, San Jose... Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving... Google Buys Applied Semantics... Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter... Inktomi, Google Win In Recent Relevancy Test... 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. |
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
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
May 30, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Disclosure Ratings In June 2002, the US Federal Trade Commission issued guidelines to US-based search engines about how they should disclose paid content to searchers. Periodically, Search Engine Watch assesses how well it believes search engines are meeting these guidelines. |
Search Engine Watch
April 28, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Exploring Search Engine Overlap A new comparison tool shows that the major search engines have surprisingly little overlap, even for popular search terms. |
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
January 7, 2004
Chris Sherman |
2003's Most Wanted Search Terms The most popular search terms of the past year reveal as much about the interests of searchers as they do about the perceived 'personalities' of the major search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Dance Case Studies Real life stories of how sites were impacted by the recent Google ranking changes, with an analysis of factors that may be in play. |
Search Engine Watch
April 29, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers A look at how and why the current search wars erupted, one that will no doubt gain further attention in the wake of expected public financial releases from Google. |
InternetNews
March 3, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Lycos Asks Jeeves Lycos and Jeeves team together to compete against the heavyweights of search: Google, MSN and Yahoo. |
Search Engine Watch
August 16, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy The search engine companies are once again arguing about which search engine has a larger or fresher index. But there is still no metric to measure whose results are most relevant. |
