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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 Sep/Oct 2002 Greg R. Notess |
The Blog Realm News sources, searching with Daypop, and content management  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2002 Greg R. Notess |
The Wayback Machine: The Web's Archive Starting in 1996, the Internet Archive has been storing Web pages, including graphics files, from publicly accessible Web sites that Alexa has crawled. With the October 2001 launch of the Wayback Machine, this huge archive is now freely available to the Web public...  |
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.  |
Search Engine Watch October 14, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Desktop Search Launched The company released a new Google Desktop Search tool that allows people to scan their computers for information in the same way they use Google to search the web. Its ease of use, plus how it enhances the Google search experience, make it a compelling product to use.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2008 Greg R. Notess |
Multilingual Searching: Search Engine Language Tools For savvy searchers, the multiple languages and content from distant countries create new opportunities for finding previously buried information resources.  |
InternetNews August 24, 2007 Mike Elgan |
Easy Like Blogging Texty is an online What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editor for HTML content that enables you to make changes to your content from a central page. Those changes show up instantly on the target page.  |
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.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2012 Jinfang Niu |
Functionalities of Web Archives The functionalities that are important to the users of web archives range from basic searching and browsing to advanced personalized and customized services, data mining, and website reconstruction.  |
Search Engine Watch May 18, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Building the Universal Library What will it take for Google or another search engine to truly assemble a library of all of the world's information? Here is a fascinating look at the challenges.  |
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 September 14, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search Google has introduced its long awaited blog search service, becoming the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities.  |
Search Engine Watch May 11, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Official Google Blog, Not Blog Search Google has launched its own official blog, promising much insight about the company though not yet delivering much. The company also says it has no news about long-discussed plans to offer blog or web feed searching at Google.  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2004 Greg R. Notes |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves joins the push for local search... Google and Yahoo! now have their own blogs... Lycos has introduced two new focused search engines: People Search and Discussion Search... MSN Search's technology preview of its new search engine is now gone ... etc.  |
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2000 |
Google Speaks Languages, WAP, Adds Other Features Google has unveiled beta versions of its site for non-English speakers and those accessing the web using wireless devices. The search engine has also added new features to its search results and launched a new "university" search engine.  |
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.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 McCown et al. |
Tools for Discovering and Archiving the Mobile Web Many websites are adapting their content for users who are accessing the Web using smartphones and tablets. The growth of this Mobile Web has required web archivists to change their practices in order to collect this ephemeral web content.  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2004 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves added indexed PDF files to its results... For Internet Explorer users, Ask added a "binoculars preview"... Gigablast has been busy expanding its database size... Google is now indexing the text content of Flash files... 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.  |
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.  |
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 September 27, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
End Of Size Wars? Google Says Most Comprehensive But Drops Home Page Count Google is dropping from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive collection of web documents available to searchers.  |
Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project.  |
Search Engine Watch November 6, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The US White House & Blocking Search Engines At the end of last month, controversy erupted over the US White House preventing portions of its web site from being indexed by search engines. Was the White House doing this as a means to rewrite history unnoticed, or was it an innocent mistake?  |
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.  |
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 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 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.  |
InternetNews September 27, 2005 Tim Gray |
It's Google's Party, It Can Index if it Wants to Google celebrated its birthday this week with a youthful boast appropriate for a seventh birthday party: We're better than you!  |
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 November 22, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Google As News Archivist Until recently, it was difficult to find news archives on the web more than 30 days old. That's changed in a big way with the advent of Google's News Archive search.  |
Information Today September 18, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Who? What? How Much?: Google News Archive Premium Content Suppliers Three of the big five national newspapers have opened their archives to Google News Archive.  |
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 April 27, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Launches My Web Personal Search Yahoo has beefed up its personal search with a number of new features and tools, expanding the capabilities of the My Yahoo personal search features that the company launched last October.  |
Search Engine Watch April 25, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google In Controversy Over Top-Ranking For Anti-Jewish Site Google has added a disclaimer to the search results that come up in a response for a search on jew, to counter complaints about an anti-Jewish site that until recently ranked number one.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Search Engine Watch May 4, 2005 Gary Price |
Going Under Cover with Book Search Tools Google, Amazon and others offer really useful 'search inside the book' tools, but they're not always the easiest features to use. Here's a closer look at getting the most from online book search services.  |
Information Today February 24, 2003 David Mattison |
Blooglelicious: the Buzz about Google Buying Pyra Labs On Feb. 13, 2003, Google quietly purchased Pyra Labs. The news has blogging pundits and search industry analysts abuzz with speculation about what this signals. Pyra Labs created the most popular, free Web site creation and hosting service for those who blog: Blogger.com.  |
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.  |
Information Today October 7, 2002 Marydee Ojala |
Google Expands Google News From its former hundred or so sources, Google News has expanded to 4,000 English-language news sources that it crawls continuously.  |
Search Engine Watch December 29, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
2005 in Review: The Top Search Industry Stories of the Year Your Search Utility: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Developments With Consumer Search... Search Advertisers Deserve Better: Search Engine Ad Reps: Friend or Foe?... SEO Isn't A Criminal Activity... etc.  |
Search Engine Watch September 16, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
China's Great Wall Against Google And AltaVista So can people in China get to Google or not? Yes, apparently so. However, there are still reports of trouble when conducting particular searches, which suggest that some selective blocking is happening. Meanwhile, the situation with AltaVista being blocked appears to continue.  |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.  |
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.  |
InternetNews January 27, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Looking For Open Source Work? So is Google. Search engine firm posts open source position as it looks to expand open source payroll, according to the job ad.  |
InternetNews September 27, 2010 |
Droid X Fans Annoyed By Android 2.2 SMS Bug Droid X users say updated Android 2.2 mobile OS has a bug that keeps new texts from surfacing at the top of their messaging list.  |
InternetNews January 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Leaders, Bloggers Band to Fight Comment Spam Industry group says it will support Google's 'no-follow' tag that tells search engine spiders to lay off links.  |
Information Today September 18, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Traditional Information Industry Opens Premium Content to Google News Archive The Google News Archive integrates free with for-fee references, alerting users to priced information, often with the actual price tag amounts, before connecting them with paid content Web sites.  |
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....  |