Location: Help / Change History

October 22, 2003
New look and feel.

October 1, 2002
Free feeds obtained after this date may only be used on personal websites that are not operated for a profit. Websites operated by corporations, universities, or other entities must use a premium feed.

March 13, 2002
Added affiliate program.

November 30, 2001
Changed the color scheme.

October 24, 2001
Switched to a faster server.

June 27, 2001
Added Health / Medical Practice
This category covers more technical articles on treatment than Health / Illness, Injury & Treatments as well as other articles of interest to doctors.

April 9, 2001
Made search restricted to a category much faster.

December 19, 2000
Added Internet / Distributed Computing & P2P

December 6, 2000
You can now sort the search engine output into categories. On the output page select "category" on the "order by" pull-down menu. Also, when you perform a search that is restricted to a category, you can now choose whether or not to include subcategories in the search. If subcategories are included, the "search" menu item has "(& subcat)" after the category name. If subcategories are not included, "(only)" appears after the category name.

November 30, 2000
You can now restrict a search to a particular category (and its subcategories). When you click into a category you will see options next to the search box allowing the search to apply to the category or to all articles. On the search output screen you can use the pull-down menu to switch between searching the category or all articles.

November 27, 2000
You can now attach an email address to your account so that if you forget your password a temporary password can be emailed to you (see My Account).
Marking articles for My Articles has been changed to require you to have a user name and password attached to your cookie. This was done to prevent the possibility of users loosing their My Articles data if their cookie was accidently erased.

November 15, 2000
Added Business / Regional / Africa

November 9, 2000
Added Society, Politics & Culture / Seniors

October 3, 2000
Added free data feeds so users can display limited article listings on their own sites. See our press release.

September 18, 2000
Added free weekly newsletter "Hot Articles - General."

September 12, 2000
Added Education & Reference / Briefs

August 24, 2000
Added Sports & Recreation / Hunting & Shooting

July 25, 2000
Added Society / Regional / Europe / Scandinavia

July 17, 2000
Added Society / Regional / Asia & Pacific / Sri Lanka

July 15, 2000
Added "tip of the day" to the main page.

July 5, 2000
Added news feeds to many categories. If a category has a news feed, a link to it will appear in the "See Also" box on the current articles page for that category.

June 29, 2000
Added a list of magazines indexed.

June 23, 2000
Fixed bug in My Account that sometimes caused failure during login.

June 20, 2000
Added more flexibility to the search engine. The output page now includes the total number of articles found and it features drop-down menus that allow you to specify how articles are sorted. In addition to the default, "match quality," you can sort by date or by publication. For more details see Search Engine Help. We have also added some new categories:
  Business / Regional / Middle East
  Education / Research
  Family & Home / Marriage & Relationships
  Society / Regional / Americas / Canada
  Society / Regional / Asia & Pacific / North Korea
  Sports & Recreation / Triathlon

March 28, 2000
Official public launch--see our press release.

February 27, 2000
Beta version open to the public.