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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.   |
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
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. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Tara Calishain |
The Next Small Thing If you haven't tried a search toolbar yet, you're missing a great way to ease your searching. |
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. |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n10 Google has recently been granted a patent for a voice interface for search engines. |
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... |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? Search engines have tripped over each other this past year in offering up toolbars. Yet the insidious fault of toolbars lies in the over-reliance on the search engine that their constant presence engenders. |
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
January 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Customization Options for Web Searching The summer of 2000 witnessed several search engines suddenly offering such settings. Searchers now have more options and settings available for a variety of search and display features... |
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
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
HotBot Is Reborn Terra Lycos has been saying for ages that the HotBot site was slated for desperately-needed improvements, and now they've come. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2002
Marydee Ojala |
Search Soirees I am constantly struck by the difference between what people can do with search engines and what they actually do. It boils down to this: advanced search engine features go largely unused... |
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 27, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Nice To See Google Back On Track! Will it last? - Anybody Experienced With URL Rewrite for IIS? - The -Noblog Option or Blog Tab: Can It Be Done? - SEMPO - Yahoo Recommends Keywords META and Image ALT Text - Yahoo Versus Google On Redirect Handling - Who Links to My Site? |
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. |
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... |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the voices of each engine are growing even more unique. |
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 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. |
Search Engine Watch
September 22, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Myriad Search: Meta Search Your Way A new meta search engine lets Internet marketers and others compare results from the four top web search engines, and tweak their relative importance in a cutomized result set. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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
April 4, 2000 |
Search Satisfaction And Behavior Results Released Every three months, some users at the major search engines are selected randomly by NPD and asked about their visits. The results are fascinating, but they've not been available to the general public until now.
The survey is funded and conducted on behalf of the major search engines, and the results have been used for their own internal purposes.... |
PC Magazine
September 16, 2003
Neil J. Rubenking |
Put Google in IE's Search Bar There's a quicker way if you want to make Google your default. |
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. |
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
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web... |
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
January 3, 2007
Eric Enge |
Are Vertical Search Engines the Answer to Relevance? Even the most advanced general search algorithm can be scuttled by ambiguous searches, but vertical search engines are increasingly offering a solution to the problem. |
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. |
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
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
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
April 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Loving Each Other More: Search Engines & Blogs There's a good reason for Google or someone else to create a robust, blog-specific search engine. In addition, there are things bloggers could do to make their content more accessible to ordinary web search engines. |
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 |
Search Engine Watch
January 22, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Google Alert Automatically Tracks Your Favorite Topics Google Alert lets you automate the process of running regular queries, sending you an email whenever any new content matching your query is added to the Google database. |
PC World
June 2003
Steve Bass |
Maximum Google Google is fast, accurate, and fun to use, but you can get even more out of the boss of search engines. |
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. |
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
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, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Google Gains More Features The folks at Google have been busy, adding a new advanced search page, a preferences page, dictionary links and a Korean-language version. |
InternetNews
December 31, 2007
David Needle |
'Social Search Engine' Claims Better Results EarthFrisk.org, which today launched the first "Meta-Social-Hybrid Search Engine," lets users vote on results that are gleaned from top search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Invisible Web Gets Deeper A new study estimates that the inaccessible part of the web is about 500 times larger than what search engines already provide access to. |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Being Search Boxed To Death General purpose search engines often can do many different jobs. Nevertheless, your results might be better if you turn to a vertical tool. This may be the year that the general purpose search engines finally figure out a way to get the right vertical tools into the hands of their users... |
Macworld
April 19, 2006
Lee Sherman |
DEVONagent 2.0 Aimed at casual Web surfers and serious researchers alike, DEVONagent 2.0 begins where Google leaves off. And you don't have to be a scientist to use it. |
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... |
