SearchDay 2001 Year in Review
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Google Fires New Salvo in Search Engine Size Wars
SearchDay #157, December 11, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd1211-google.html
Google's web index has grown to more than 3 billion documents, including an unprecedented archive of Usenet newsgroup postings dating back to 1981.
FAST Search Engine Shifts into High Gear
SearchDay #137, November 13, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd1113-fast.html
AllTheWeb.com search has snuck up on all of the major search engines with new features, speed and customization capabilities, and is now a viable challenger to pack-leader Google.
The Wayback Machine: A Web Archives Search Engine
SearchDay #127, October 30, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd1030-wayback.html
The Wayback Machine is a phenomenal search engine that contains over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present.
News Portals and Search Engines
SearchDay #117, October 16, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd1016-news-search.html
Using a search engine to find news is like using the encyclopedia to look up a phone number -- not too smart. Specialized news search sites are the best tool for the job.
Wisenut, the Google Killer? Nah...
SearchDay #88, September 5, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd0905-wisenut.html
The media is heralding Wisenut as the scrappy underdog that's supposedly going to topple Google from its "throne" as the king of web search. Not likely -- here's why.
AltaVista Launches Trusted Feed Program
SearchDay #74, August 16, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd0816-av-trusted.html
AltaVista's new Trusted Feed program offers unprecedented control to webmasters, allowing submission of 500 or more URLs directly to the search engine via an XML feed.
What Search Engines See Isn't Always What You Get
SearchDay #33, June 20, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd0620-cloaking.html
Cloaking is a technique used by some webmasters to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing, while serving an entirely different page to everyone else -- in short, the classic bait and switch technique applied to the web.
Web Archaeology: Yahoo Relics
SearchDay #32, June 19, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd0619-yahoo.html
Do you remember what Yahoo looked like in 1994? Digging into the web reveals several fascinating relics of the service that later morphed into the portal we're familiar with today.
In Praise of Fuzzy Searching
SearchDay #23, June 6, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd0606-fuzzy.html
"Fuzzy" means blurred or indistinct, and the last thing we searchers want are blurred or indistinct results. Paradoxically, a liberal dose of "fuzzy logic" can actually improve the precision of search engine results.
The Hidden Power of AND
SearchDay #2, May 8, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd0508-and.html
The deceptively simple Boolean AND operator is actually a remarkable power tool for searchers, especially when you're mining for information located on the Invisible web.
Complete 2001 Archives for SearchDay:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/archives-2001.html
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