Latest stories
27,336 articles, newest first.
RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content
A look at how content from blogs, news sites and other sources is distributed via RSS feeds. These feeds can be a great way…
SearchDay – Search Engine Milestones for March 2003
Notable news and announcements from the web search world during the past month.
Magnify Your Search Results
A software utility that grew out of visual perception research at Xerox's famous PARC labs magnifies critical information on web pages, making it 'pop…
Welcome To Search Engine Watch
Everything about search engines and more is available at Search Engine Watch. This page provides an introduction to the site.
Gary Price’s List of Lists
Looking for a list of top-ranked companies, cities, actors, and so on? Your number one choice should be Gary Price's List of Lists.
Disney Shops Infoseek, Switches Go To Google
The Walt Disney Internet Group says that it has been approached by companies looking to acquire the search technology and patents it has left…
Honing Your Web Searching Skills
Want to sharpen your Internet searching skills? A series of 'teach yourself' tutorials developed by a group of subject and information experts offers a…
Free Business Research from Dun & Bradstreet
It's a rarity these days to find high quality business information on the web that's free of charge, but Dun and Bradstreet's Zapdata offers…
Aggressive Linking – The Only Search Engine Optimization Strategy You Need?
Is an aggressive linking strategy alone sufficient to garner high search engine rankings? A search engine marketing company in England says it is, and…
Local Weather + 5 Search Engines = WeatherBug
WeatherBug is an interesting service that brings you local weather from more than 6,000 weather stations, with a search box that lets you get…
Stung by Unethical Search Engine Optimization – A True Story
Editor’s note: Even knowledgeable, ethical professionals can get swindled by unsavory search engine optimization techniques. Here’s how one firm discovered — and fixed —…
Keep an Eye on iPhrase
iPhrase Technologies, which powers both Yahoo! and Lycos Finance search, has been chosen to power the search functions for the Accessible Technology Knowledgebase.
The Search Engine Update, March 4, 2003, Number 144
Edition of the Search Engine Update newsletter, available to paid subscribers of searchenginewatch.com.
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We’ve Known & Loved
Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed andhow the new players that are no longer so young are…
Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division
Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal.
The Search Engine Update, Feb. 18, 2003, Number 143
Edition of the Search Engine Update newsletter, available to paid subscribers of searchenginewatch.com.
Singingfish Grows As Multimedia Search Provider
Looking for audio or video files from across the web? Singingfish has offered its multimedia search engine to help you in this since mid-2000,…
Search Engine Results Chart: Feb. 2003
Chart shows how major search engines get their results from crawlers, human directories or via payments, for Feb. 2003.
Who Powers Whom? Search Providers Chart: Feb. 2003
Shows which major search providers power the web's major search engines, in chart format, for Feb. 2003.
Wikipedia – A Collaborative, Multilingual Encyclopedia
Wikipedia is an ambitious project to produce a free and complete encyclopedia in every language, written by hundreds of volunteers working collaboratively together. Wikipedia…