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Search Engine Watch November 1, 1999 |
Nov. 1999 Search Engine Briefs Brief news items about changes at Direct Hit and Northern Light.  |
Search Engine Watch October 4, 1999 |
Improved MSN Search Launches Microsoft officially launched its new version of MSN Search in late September, and the improvements leapfrog the service forward into being a compelling choice for those searching the web.  |
Search Engine Watch October 4, 1999 |
New AOL Search Unveiled AOL retired its longstanding AOL NetFind service in favor of the new AOL Search in September, though the official launch of AOL Search actually comes later this week.  |
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.  |
Search Engine Watch October 4, 1999 |
Go Guides Goes Live Go's new Go Guides directory went live in September. Similar to the Open Directory, Go Guides makes use of volunteers to catalog the web.  |
Search Engine Watch October 4, 1999 |
New Search Lookup Tool Available GuruNet, still in beta testing, lets you highlight words in a document and then send them to an online dictionary or thesaurus. You can also send the words as a query to one of several search engines.  |
Search Engine Watch October 4, 1999 |
Lycos 50 Features Our Searches Forget live search displays. Lycos has realized that all our searches can make for great content, if assembled correctly.  |
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 September 3, 1999 |
New MSN Search, AOL Search Available in Beta Two major portals are readying new versions of their search services. Both MSN and AOL have made unveiled their next-generation search offerings at beta sites that have just gone live.  |
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.  |
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