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Searching For Images
All sorts of talk over the weekend about Google’s image database is only updated twice a year. Yes, it’s true. I’m sure…
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,…