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MSN Search Technology To Debut (Again) This Week
Rumors are swirling that MSN plans to release its new search technology this week. But why’s that big news? After all, hasn’t this technology already been released twice…
Yahoo Acquires Stata Labs
Yahoo has purchased another email startup, Stata Labs. The acquisition follows Yahoo’s July purchase of Oddpost, a provider of web based email.…
Yahoo Announces Size Increase to Image Database
Word from Yahoo this afternoon that they’re announcing a size increase, what they’re calling an upgrade, to Yahoo Image Search database. According…
Memories of Search Engines of Yore
In the mid 1990s, a couple of Stanford graduate students visited the popular search engines of the day, offering to license new…
Search Memories
Veterans of AltaVista, Excite and Infoseek reminisce about the early days of web search, and opine about Google, then and now.
New Metasearch Engine: Info.com
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a new metasearch engine from Info.com (great domain name) is launching today. Info.com employs 10, mostly Web…
An Introduction to Exalead
Eric B. lets us know about a new web engine called Exalead. This Paris-based company has been around since 1999 and continues…
Problems With Searching By Date
InsideGoogle points us to the FirstMonday article: Internet time and the reliability of search engines. >From the article, “A large part of…
myGoogle Search Aims To Refine Google Results
myGoogle Search is NOT from Google, and somehow I suspect the letter asking for a name change will be coming from the…
Google Out Of Index Space?
Is Google out of space for documents? Allegations from last year have been raised anew. A short recap of what's been said,…
Google Toolbar Adds Keyword Browsing to Internet Explorer
Google has added a keyword based browsing feature to its toolbar, allowing users to type words rather than URLs into the Internet…
Behind the Scenes at Yahoo Labs, Part 3
The head of Yahoo Labs talks about the competition, the challenge of balancing searcher needs with webmaster desires, the future, and the…
Overture Launches Local Match Listings Program
Overture launched a new Local Match program today to allow its advertisers in the United States to more easily target listings toward…
New Google WebSearch Program Pays Publishers For Searches
Google has released two new services allowing site owners to install web search capabilities on their own sites, including one that pays.
Google Desktop Search Tool Rumored & Software Principles Released
The New York Times report on Google plans to release a desktop search tool. The rumor comes on the heels of a…
Yahoo Reawakens The Paid Inclusion Debate
Yahoo drew widespread criticism for new paid inclusion programs launched in March. What is Yahoo doing? How does it impact the advertiser…
The Search Engine Update – Number 172 – May 6, 2004
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recap of top search engine stories from late April 2004.
The Search Engine Report – Number 90 – May 6, 2004
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from April 2004.
Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers
We've long had competition in search, so why are we hearing so much about the search wars now? Because the few left…
Exploring Search Engine Overlap
Think all search engines provide essentially the same results? Think again. A new comparison tool shows that the major search engines have…
Image & Multimedia Search Complaints
Covers complaints by web site owners and artists about multimedia search services.
Ask Jeeves: Why Buy Interactive Search Holdings?
Ask Jeeves' recent acquisition of Interactive Search Holdings has gone largely unremarked amid the recent sparring between industry titans Yahoo and Google.…
Google Tops, But MSN Growth Good & Yahoo Switch A Success So Far
New stats from web analytics firm WebSideStory highlight the news often heard before: Google's most popular, when it comes to search. But…
The Search Engine Update – Number 170 – April 2, 2004
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recap of top search engine stories from late March 2004.
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