There are lots of tools out there (recollecting Web Position Gold, InfoSeek, etc.but it comes down to absorbing all of the data collected and finding meaningful action. Moderated by Thom Craver (@thomcraver), Web and Database Specialist, Saunders...
The trademark and domain name that once belonged to popular '90s search engine Infoseek will up for auction Dec.in New York, for those interested in owning a piece of search engine history. Infoseek was founded July 18, 1994 and launched in...
In reading "7 Search Engines Google Obliterated" (Excite, InfoSeek, AltaVista, HotBot, AllTheWeb, Yahoo, and Ask) over on Search Engine People's blog yesterday, it makes you hope a site like Blekko or a new player sees some success to lessen...
Mike Grehan remembers an SES San Jose (2004) when Doug Cutting, former Senior Architect at Excite, Steve Kirsch, former founder of Infoseek and Louis Monier former CTO at AltaVista all reminisced about Page and Brin's initial pitch.
Names like WebCrawler, Excite, Infoseek, and Inktomi -- all general search engines -- spring to mind. So, I slipped out a few years back to hang over at ClickZ for awhile (which was fun), but now I'm back at my old stomping ground here at Search...
He felt like he lost a personal friend the day Disney went "ol' Yeller" on Infoseek. One of the few remaining independent engines of note, GenieKnows adopted what was considered a radical and rather dangerous plan about eighteen months ago.
Google's Universal Search Patent Application & Assigned Patents from Infoseek, SEO by the Sea Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
Googleâ””s Universal Search Patent Application & Assigned Patents from Infoseek, SEO by the Sea Among the many announcements were universal search and navigation, upcoming query enhancements and a new Google Experimental tool for opting into Google...
I can remember (there he goes again) when Webposition rolled out the page
analyzer tool to help those who wanted to build to target Infoseek, AltaVista,
etc. Google. This reawakening is one reason why I added the
Like many of the patents originally filed by Infoseek, this one now
belongs to Google, after an assignment last October. Infoseek launched their search service back in 1995, went public in 1996, and
by 1997 they were being visited by over 7...
Going, Go.com-Gone: Uh oh, maybe we should have kept the Infoseek name
and not tried to be a portal, thinks Disney. Ten years ago today, I first starting writing publicly about search engines. If we had blogs back then, I suppose I would have been...
Indeed, Infoseek and Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable also has an interview with him. In both
places, you'll learn of spiders being an increasing burden to the site, though I
still am very, very wary that others should follow the route that...
Plenty of
people were concerned about being listed well in Excite or Lycos or Infoseek or Chris did the heavy lifting in
reviewing John's Battelle's new book, "The Search," but I wanted to add my own comments as
well.
Webcrawler, Magellan, Infoseek, Inktomi, Altavista, Excite, and many others came and went. Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan probed for answers in a recent conversation with Ask Jeeves' CEO Steve Berkowitz.
FYI, for the "what's old is new" set, this is exactly how Infoseek worked back in 1997, except for the instant inclusion. When you gave Infoseek your list, all the URLs got
in. Gary wrote earlier that part of the new Yahoo Site
Shak) for more background on Baidu, including cofounder Robin Li's Infoseek roots. Baidu files to go public on Nasdaq from SiliconBeat covers Chinese
search provider Baidu filing for an IPO on the NASDAQ.
We haven't had this for free, for everyone, since Infoseek back in like 1998 or 1999. Jeremy Zawodny says he's scratching his head over the new Google Sitemaps system and wondering why Google doesn't adopt a ping-based page updating system instead.
Thus, players such as Northern Light, Excite, Infoseek and others that no longer crawl for their results are not displayed. MILLIONS Of Textual Documents Indexed December 1995-June 1999 KEY: See above plus NL=Northern Light, EX=Excite, LY=Lycos...
If you're interested in learning more about Matt Wells and Gigablast, take a look at this interview he did with Infoseek founder and Matt's former boss, Steve Kirsch. SES New York Agenda Posted + Search Engine Watch Articles + More From The Search...
Steve Kirsch Announces Free Demos Of the Infoseek Search Engine (7/18/94) Slashdot has a thread about a "new" timeline from Google that highlights interesting and historic posts from their 20 year Usenet (aka Google Groups) archive.