After talking to one of the pioneers in web search (Brian Pinkerton of WebCrawler) I was introduced to the work of foremost information retrieval scientist, Gerard Salton. It's been 10 years since I wrote the second edition of a book about search...
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...
As WebCrawler founder Brian Pinkerton puts it, "Imagine walking up to a librarian and saying, 'travel. Search for anything using your favorite crawler-based search engine. Nearly instantly, the search engine will sort through the millions of pages...
One of our clients was upset at the end of 1995 that his OC jobs site wasn't ranking tops for a search on "orange county" in WebCrawler. Ten years ago today, I first starting writing publicly about search engines.
Dogile, MetaCrawler, WebCrawler and Infospace mobile services beginning in Q1 2006. News out of San Francisco and Seattle today that InfoSpace and Ingenio have announced a partnership that will bring Ingenio's Pay Per Call technology to the entire...
This is what I quoted WebCrawler creator Brian Pinkerton saying when I wrote my How As WebCrawler founder Brian Pinkerton puts it, "Imagine walking up to a librarian and saying, 'travel. Search. In short, Robert wants better query refinement.
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.
WebCrawler used to have a feedback system like this back in the late 90s, and other major search engines have had human reviewers, as well. Google Secret Lab, Prelude from Henk van Ess's new Search Bistro blog looks at how
WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com Formerly a crawled-based search engine owned by Excite, Webcrawler was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but offers a fast and...
Brian Pinkerton Announces the Availability of Webcrawler (6/11/94) 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.
The report looked at Infospace.com, but the findings also apply to the company's other meta search properties, Dogpile, Metacrawler and Webcrawler as well. Which search engines are adequately disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion...
Brian Pinkerton Announces the Availability of Webcrawler (6/11/94) On the heels of today's SearchDay article: Search Memories, some of you might enjoy reminsicing about the "early days" by taking a look at a collection of early search engine...
WebCrawler relaunches with new look, the first major changes since Excite acquired the service. A Brief History of WebCrawler Brian Pinkerton, 2001 A short but fascinating account of the history of the web's first full-text search engine, from...
It owned WebCrawler because even then, AOL users wanted more than the AOL walled garden. AOL used to OWN its own search engine, WebCrawler, back in 1995. NOTE: PARTNERSHIP-RELATED ITEMS FROM SEPTEMBER 2004 ONWARD ARE LISTED IN THE REVENUES...
With Excite, the WebCrawler and Magellan properties ended up getting neglected. NOTE: REVENUE-RELATED ITEMS FROM SEPTEMBER 2004 ONWARD ARE LISTED IN THE REVENUES SECTION OF SEARCH TOPICS IN SEARCH ENGINE WATCH.
The survey was conducted during Summer 1997 on AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler and Yahoo. This page (formerly called The Search Engine Index) lists articles from Search Engine Watch and around the web that providing interesting facts...
Actually, Yahoo, Lycos, WebCrawler -- those early search engines from 1994, before Google even existed -- completely transformed how people accessed information. NOTE: ARTICLES ABOUT GOOGLE CRITICS OR THE VIEW OF GOOGLE AS A DOMINANT SEARCH PLAYER...
With Excite, the WebCrawler and Magellan properties ended up getting neglected. Search Engine Watch News + Search Engine Strategies Comes To San Jose! Search Engine Watch Articles + Search Engine Articles + Search Engine Resources + About The...
With Excite, the WebCrawler and Magellan properties ended up getting neglected. In This Issue Search Engine Watch News + Search Engine Strategies Comes To San Jose! Search Engine Watch Member Articles + Search Engine Watch Articles + Search Engine...
WebCrawler Search Engine Turns 10 Years Old. Search engine advertising has exploded in popularity over the past few years, offering marketers top positioning and providing searchers with appealing alternatives to annoying banners and popups.
