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RSS Feed   Archives by Topic By Company   • AltaVista   • AOL   • Ask Jeeves   • Fast   • Google   • MSN   • Inktomi   • Terra Lycos   • Yahoo   • Alternatives SE Topics   • Search Tips   • Invisible Web   • PPC Engines   • Specific Search Tools   • Kids Internet   • Natural Language   • SEO & Spam Misc   • Blogs   • Browsers   • RSS   • New Websites   • Digitization   • Website Design   • Worldwide   Archives by Date   Links   • ResearchBuzz   • VAS&ND   • Library Stuff   • Pandia   • SE Watch   • NewsNow: SE   • Webmaster World   • Daypop Top 40     more links...     Fagan Finder's Blog Online information, search engines, and other net happenings. Updated frequently and organized by topic. Old entries are constantly updated so you can follow the whole story.   Teoma Toolbar The search engine Teoma, now owned by Ask Jeeves, has released a toolbar. A toolbar is a browser add-on for Internet Explorer. Two popular toolbars exist already, Google's toolbar and Alexa's toolbar. Teoma's has several features: Teoma web search, dictionary lookup (with Merriam-Webster), highlighter words (just like Google's), and e-mail a page to a friend. Via VAS&ND. • Teoma Offers Free Search Toolbar [newsletter: SearchDay, June 25 2002] • Search upstart Teoma releases toolbar [article: ComputerWeekly, June 25 2002] • Ask Jeeves' Teoma adds IE search bar [article: ZDNet, June 25 2002] • Teoma - Suchmaschinen Toolbar [article: @-Web, June 25 2002, German] • Put a Little Teoma In Your Browser [article: Internet.com, June 25 2002] • Teoma Getting into the Toolbar Game [forum thread: Webmaster World, June 22 2002] • Coming Tuesday: Teoma Set to Introduce Toolbar App [blog entry: VAS&ND, June 22 2002] • Teoma Toolbar [source] Topics: Ask Jeeves Date: Friday, June 21, 2002   |     |   permalink   Google vs Fast Another article about how Google should be wary of competition from Fast. It discusses the Yahoo! and MSN deals, database size and freshness, and the searches powered by Fast. • Google, Apple on ice [article: C|Net, June 21 2002] Topics: Google, Fast Date: Friday, June 21, 2002   |     |   permalink   Web-Powered Translation An article from Associated Press talks about machine and human translation, and new efforts to analysize web pages to improve machine translation. The article mentions Systran, which makes the translation software used by Google, AltaVista, and others. • Web translation services not always accurate [article: USA Today (AP), June 21 2002] Topics: Worldwide Date: Friday, June 21, 2002   |     |   permalink   Worldwide Religion Statistics Adherents.com has tons of well-cited information and statistics about locations and populations of religious groups worldwide. Very extensive website. Via Neat New Stuff on the Net. Topics: New Websites Date: Friday, June 21, 2002   |     |   permalink   Overture soon to have Auto Bidding Overture, a pay-per-click search engine, will soon introduce an 'auto bidding' feature so that marketers will only pay one cent more than the next-highest bid. Oddly, this is similar to a feature of Google AdWords. Google is currently being sued by Overture, see Google says Overture's Patent is Invalid. Via Webmaster World. • Forget The CPC! What's Your ROI? [article: Search Engine Report, July 1 2002] • Overture introduces auto bidding [article: Pandia, June 26 2002] • Overture takes page from Google [article: C|Net, June 26 2002] • Auto bidding coming to Overture [forum thread: Webmaster World, June 21 2002] Topics: PPC Engines Date: Friday, June 21, 2002   |     |   permalink   WebSearch University Pandia reports on a number of search engine conferences, including WebSearch University. The next WebSearch U will take place in Washington, DC in September. A number of expert searchers will be there, and you'll learn about advanced searching, the invisible web, search engine technology, and other topics. Future conferences will be in Chicago (October) and Dallas (November). • New search engine conferences and workshops [article: Pandia, June 21 2002] • WebSearch University [source] Topics: Search Tips Date: Friday, June 21, 2002   |     |   permalink   Ask Google Slashdot will interview Craig Silverstein of Google, asking ten questions posted to this Slashdot thread. Update: The interview has taken place. Topics: Google Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002   |     |   permalink   Search Engines & Profits An article on NewsFactor about search engines and their quest for profitability. It discusses a number of search tools and a number of revenue-making methods. • The Serious Business of Internet Search Engines [article: NewsFactor, June 20 2002] Topics: AltaVista, Google, Ask Jeeves Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002   |     |   permalink   SEO and Spam This entry lists all search engine optimization related entries, both ethical, and unethical (spam). • Banned by Google or Banning Google [July 8 2002] • Ranking Higher in Google [July 1 2002] • AOL & Inktomi Spammed [June 20 2002] • Overture's Listing Guideline's [June 18 2002] Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002   |     |   permalink   AOL This entry lists all AOL, AOL Search, and Open Directory Project related entries. • Open Directory Reaches 3.5 Million Websites [July 10 2002] • Big Portals Adopt Objectionable Content Tags [June 25 2002] • AOL & Inktomi Spammed [June 20 2002] Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002   |     |   permalink   Inktomi This entry lists all Inktomi related entries. • AOL & Inktomi Spammed [June 20 2002] • Yahoo May Switch from Google to Fast (or Inktomi) [June 16 2002] Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002   |     |   permalink   Boole-Bot Desktop Meta Search Engine Boole-Bot is a new (and free) desktop meta search engine. I haven't tried it myself, but it sounds fairly good for a meta search engine from the description. Let me know if you have used it, and what you think. Topics: New Websites, Alternative Search Tools Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002   |     |   permalink   AOL & Inktomi Spammed AOL Search and Inktomi (which AOL uses as a database, but not for long), were spammed by thousands of results from a Russian website on Wednesday. The technique used was to copy others' pages, and include meta tags for daily recrawling but no indexing. I don't see why Inktomi would fall for this, but anyway they have removed the pages from their database. Update: I was right, it seems that the author of the article doesn't really know what he's talking about. • Search Engine Hacks Mislead Surfers [article: TechTV, June 20 2002] • AOL-Suchmaschine gekidnappt? [article: @-Web, June 20 2002, German] • Spammer attacks AOL Search [forum thread: Webmaster World, June 20 2002] • Spammer breaks into AOL search engine [article: ZDNet, June 20 2002] Topics: AOL, Inktomi, SEO & Spam Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002   |     |   permalink   The State of Ask Jeeves An overview article on Ask Jeeves. It includes information about Ask Jeeves' new paid inclusion programs, Index Express, and Site Submit. With Index Express, website owners are charged a small fee whenever people click on the search results to their site; sound a lot like pay-per-click, although AJ doesn't (yet) have paid placement. The article also talks about the recent redesign, AJ's popularity, and JeevesOne Enterprise (their corporate search tool). • Ask Jeeves Uses Acquisitions To Its Advantage [article: Internet.com, June 20 2002] Topics: Ask Jeeves Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002   |     |   permalink   Searching as a Career Search Engine Watch's SearchDay reviews a book about being a self-employed professional searcher. • A Dream Job: Getting Paid to Search [newsletter: SearchDay, June 19 2002] Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   Stumbleupon - Rate Sites and Find Others Stumbleupon is a toolbar that installs into your browser, apparently in IE, Netscape 7, and Mozilla. Similar to the Google Toolbar, you rate pages by clicking a thumbs up, a thumbs down, or two thumbs up. Clicking on the Stumble! button takes you to a page which has been rated highly by people who also rated highly the websites you did. In other words, you can stumble upon websites you wouldn't have otherwise found, but fit your interests. Topics: New Websites Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   Invisible Web This entry lists all invisible web related entries. • The Invisible Web - How Big it is [June 19 2002] • AllTheWeb includes 'PDF only' Option [June 17 2002] Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   The Invisible Web - How Big it is An article on Hoover's about the invisible web. The main point of the article is that the invisible web is huge, at least 400 times larger than the visible web (according to BrightPlanet), and contains information of higher quality and reliability. The article is short on actually mentioning tools for searching the invisible web. Via Library Stuff. • Unearthing the Deep Web [article: Hoover's, June 19 2002] Topics: Invisible Web Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   New Tool Searches PubMed and GenBank Automatically PubCrawler lets you choose your search terms and other options for these two medical databases, and will e-mail you when new results are found. It is free, and there is no limit to how many alerts you can set up. Via VAS&ND. Topics: New Websites, Specific Search Tools Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   Le Monde Interviews Google, Google Opens French Office French newspaper Le Monde, interviews Sergey Brin of Google. Google has opened an office in France, mainly for advertising issues. For the non-French speakers, read the translation by Google. • Google ouvre des bureaux en France [blog entry: Intelligence-Center, French] • Sergey Brin, cofondateur et président [article: Le Monde, June 17 2002, French] Topics: Google, Worldwide Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   2002 Webby Awards Some of the winners, along with their 5-words-or-less acceptance speeches, include: Best Practices: Google This is yours -- Google Users. Commerce: Amazon Our stock is rising. Humour: TheOnion Airport security should love this! (the award) Government & Law: Library of Congress Dewey would've loved the web! Finance: Yahoo! Finance Enriching your lives and accounts. Community: Idealist.org Idealist connects people and non-profits. Education: Exploratorium Science. Art. Human Perception. Exploratorium. News: BBC News Striving to report things fairly. • Webbys not what they used to be [article: SF Gate, June 19 2002] • The Webby Awards: Off-the-wall out, thoughtful is in [article: Mercury News, June 19 2002] • Quirky, quality sites get Webby [article: CNN, June 19 2002] • The Webby Awards [source] Topics: Google Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   Google says Overture's Patent is Invalid Google, who is currently being sued by Overture for patent infringement, is asking a federal judge to invalidate Overture's patent. The patent is on Overture's system of having advertisers bid for placement for keywords on its search engine. Google recently implemented a similar system for advertisements (not search results). Google says that Overture used this system for over a year before applying for a patent. Pay-per-click search engine FindWhat, who is also being sued by Overture, also accuses the patent of being invalid. From Bloomberg via Moreover - Online Search Engines News. • Google Seeks to Invalidate Rival Overture's Web Search Patents [article: Bloomberg, June 19 2002] • FindWhat.com Takes on Rival's Search Patent [article: Internet.com, January 24 2002] Topics: PPC Engines, Google Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   WebSeed Directory Closes The WebSeed Directory has closed, due to lack of funding. It was a network of websites, similar to About, where writers could publish articles and much of the technical work was done by WebSeed. WebSeed has allowed the writers to purchase the domain names (each site has its own domain), and so many of the websites will still be around. • WebSeed - information about its history and closing [source] Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   New Websites This entry lists all new (or new to me) and renovated websites entries. • History Resources [August 4 2002] • OAIster Searches Academic Databases [July 11 2002] • 1Do3 - New UK Directory [July 5 2002] • Openfind Now the Largest Search Engine [July 1 2002] • Internet Hockey Database [June 29 2002] • Name History [June 27 2002] • Portals to the World [June 27 2002] • Find Company Information with EDGAR [June 26 2002] • Logotype Free - Huge Logo Database [June 26 2002] • Semant-O-Matic - Experimental Semantic Search Tool [June 25 2002] • Worldwide Religion Statistics [June 21 2002] • Boole-Bot Desktop Meta Search Engine [June 20 2002] • Stumbleupon - Rate Sites and Find Others [June 19 2002] • New Tool Searches PubMed and GenBank Automatically [June 19 2002] • ez2www Meta Search Engine [June 19 2002] • PAC-Info.Com becomes SearchSystems.net [June 19 2002] • Meetup - New Site Brings People Together [June 16 2002] Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   Alternative Search Tools This entry lists all alternative search tools related entries. • OAIster Searches Academic Databases [July 11 2002] • InfoSpace May be Removed from Nasdaq [July 8 2002] • 1Do3 - New UK Directory [July 5 2002] • Notess Reviews FindArticles and MagPortal [July 3 2002] • WiseNut Redesign [July 2 2002] • Semant-O-Matic - Experimental Semantic Search Tool [June 25 2002] • Vivísimo Receives More Funding [June 24 2002] • Boole-Bot Desktop Meta Search Engine [June 20 2002] • ez2www Meta Search Engine [June 19 2002] Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   ez2www Meta Search Engine Not a great name, but ez2www is a powerful meta search engine including tons of sources, from the invisible web to regional sources. It also includes news (from Moreover, weather, and a number of other tools. Topics: New Websites, Alternative Search Tools Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   PAC-Info.Com becomes SearchSystems.net Search Systems is a directory of thousands of public record databases worldwide. You can browse by location or search the site. Via VAS&ND. Topics: New Websites Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   Google's Search Appliance Gets More Powerful Google has made a number of improvements to their search appliance, and announces that a number of organizations have bought the product. Improvements include doubling the capacity (number of pages), and simplifying the creation of custom search results pages. • Taking a Swing at Enterprise Search [article: eWEEK, June 21 2002] • Industries Adopt Google Corporate Search Products [article: EContent, June 19 2002] • Companies pick up Google appliance [article: ZDNet, June 18 2002] • Google Search Appliance gets capacity boost [article: InfoWorld, June 18 2002] • Google Takes Aim At The Enterprise [article: Internet Week, June 18 2002] • Google Upgrades Search Appliance [newsletter: SearchDay, June 17 2002] • Industry Leaders Adopt Google Corporate Search Products [press release: Google, June 17 2002] • Search Tools Product Report - Google Search Appliance [page from SearchTools.com] • Google Search Appliance [source] Topics: Google Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   Historical Mexican Newspapers to be Digitized Three-centuries' worth, and 20 million pages of news in Spanish will be digitized. No word as to when the project will be complete. See the link below for more information. Via VAS&ND. • Cold North Wind Makes Deal With Autonomous University of Mexico [blog entry: ResearchBuzz, June 22 2002] • Ottawa firm to put Mexico papers on Web [article: Ottawa Citizen, June 20 2002] • Canada's Cold North Wind To Digitize Historical Newspapers from Mexico [blog entry: VAS&ND, June 19 2002] Topics: Digitization, Worldwide Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   Virtual Acquisition Shelf Launches RSS Feed The popular weblog for information professionals, The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk, now has a beta RSS feed. • Hooray, An RSS Beta is Now Available [blog entry: VAS&ND, June 18 2002] • VAS&ND via News is Free Topics: RSS Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002   |     |   permalink   AltaVista This entry lists all AltaVista related entries. • Follow-up on FTC Requests [July 10 2002] • Overview of Lycos & AltaVista Improvements [July 5 2002] • More AltaVista Improvements [July 2 2002] • AltaVista Prisma Offers Term Suggestion [July 1 2002] • AltaVista Testing Google-Type Ads [June 27 2002] • The Popular Sites in Israel [June 25 2002] • Search Engines & Profits [June 20 2002] • AltaVista Innovations [June 18 2002] Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002   |     |   permalink   Search Tips This entry lists all searching tips related entries. • WebSearch University [June 21 2002] • "Seven Commandments" of Searching [June 18 2002] Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002   |     |   permalink   AltaVista Innovations The German website @-Web reports on numerous innovations at AltaVista. Using Google's translation of the page, I gather the following information. The index is becoming fresher and larger. @-Web reports that the index contains 901 million pages, The Industry Standard reports 1.1 billion. According to AltaVista, they do a "total recrawl," crawling from scratch instead of recrawling existing links as other engines do. AltaVista has also changed the descriptions of websites in results. They will (some do already) contain excerpts from the page rather than just meta description tags. These are nice innovations, but I doubt that this will do much to AltaVista's downward trend in popularity (less than 4% according to OneStat). • Suchmaschine AltaVista mit zahlreichen Innovationen [article: @-Web, June 12 2002, German] • AltaVista searches for success [article: The Industry Standard Australia, June 14 2002] • AltaVista [source] Topics: AltaVista Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002   |     |   permalink   Google Stalling on IPO An article on ABC News about why Google has not had an IPO. The article speculates that Google will go public eventually, but the question is when. Via Yahoo! News - Portals and Search Engines. • Google kommt ohne Börse aus [article: Financial Times Deutschland, June 18 2002] • Waiting for Google [article: ABC News, June 18 2002] Topics: Google Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002   |     |   permalink   "Seven Commandments" of Searching A great article on LLRX, discussing some of the most important methods in searching; methods not realized by most searchers. Via Library Stuff. • The Seven Commandments of Highly Effective Web Searching [article: LLRX, June 17 2002] Topics: Search Tips Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002   |     |   permalink   PPC Engines This entry lists all entries related to pay-per-click search engines and advertisements on search engines. • Fast Endorses FTC Recommendations [August 4 2002] • Ask Jeeves Switches from Overture to Google [August 4 2002] • Follow-up on FTC Requests [July 11 2002] • Espotting Now on AltaVista France, Italy, & Spain [July 7 2002] • Search Engines Should be Honest [July 7 2002] • AT&T Now Using Google Search and Ads [July 2 2002] • Overture Gets Short MSN Extension [June 28 2002] • Search Engines Should Disclose Paid Links [June 28 2002] • AltaVista Testing Google-Type Ads [June 27 2002] • Overture Expanding to France & Japan [June 27 2002] • Too Many PPC Engines? [June 27 2002] • Overture soon to have Auto Bidding [June 21 2002] • Google says Overture's Patent is Invalid [June 19 2002] • Overture's Listing Guideline's [June 17 2002] Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002   |     |   permalink   Blogs This entry lists all weblog related entries. • Blogs Become Even More Connected [June 26 2002] • Semant-O-Matic - Experimental Semantic Search Tool [June 25 2002] • The (Unofficial) Google Challenge [June 24 2002] • FreshBlogs.com - New Blog Tracker [June 23 2002] • Fortune Picks Pyra Labs as Coolest Media Company [June 18 2002] • Kuro5hin - Out of Money, Fundraiser Succeeds [June 17 2002] Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002   |     |   permalink   Fortune Picks Pyra Labs as Coolest Media Company Fortune has chosen Cool Companies for 2002 in the fields of media, biotech, and communications. Pyra Labs, which makes Blogger, the popular weblogging software, won in the media category. Via Daypop Top 40. • Cool Companies 2002 - Pyra Labs [article: Fortune, June 24 2002 issue] Topics: Blogs Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002   |     |   permalink   Overture's Listing Guideline's While there has been much written about the poor ethics of pay-per-click search engines, this article on Traffick (written for SEOs) examines Overture's guidelines for insuring quality listings. The guidelines include relevant keywords, descriptive descriptions, and a direct path from search results to the appropriate page. • Search Term Guidelines for Overture Advertisers [article: Traffick, June 17 2002] Topics: PPC Engines Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002   |     |   permalink   Features Chart: RSS Aggregators From Library Techlog, a nice comparison chart of five different RSS aggregators. Topics: RSS Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Kuro5hin - Out of Money, Fundraiser Succeeds Kuro5hin, a popular online community, was broke. So they reached out to their community, and they raised $35,000 in just a week. They now plan to make Kuro5hin a non-profit organization. Via Daypop Top 40. • A Web site on the high road [article: C|Net, June 21 2002] • Preserve Kuro5hin appeal on track [article: The Register, June 21 2002] • The It Takes a Village to Save a Site [article: Wired, June 21 2002] • The Future of K5, and the First Ever Kuro5hin Fundraising Drive [self article: Kuro5hin, June 18 2002] • We're Broke: The Economics of a Web Community [self article: Kuro5hin, June 17 2002] Topics: Blogs Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Natural Language This entry lists all natural language search tools related entries. • Lycos Finance will use iPhrase [June 17 2002] Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Terra Lycos This entry lists all Terra Lycos and Lycos related entries. • Overview of Lycos & AltaVista Improvements [July 5 2002] • Lycos Improves their Search [June 29 2002] • Lycos May Sell Nettavisen [June 25 2002] • Lycos Finance will use iPhrase [June 17 2002] Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Digitization This entry lists all digitization related entries. • Historical Mexican Newspapers to be Digitized [June 19 2002] • Gale Group Digitizing thousands of 18th-Century Books [June 17 2002] Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Lycos Finance will use iPhrase iPhrase, a natural language search tool first developed at MIT has been chosen by Terra Lycos for use on Lycos Finance. • Natural Language Tool On Lycos Finance [article: ResearchBuzz, June 24 2002] • Natural Language Search For Portal [article: Content Wire, June 19 2002] • Lycos improves Finance site navigation [article: NetworkWorldFusion, June 19 2002] • Lycos adds natural language to its armoury [forum thread: Webmaster World, June 17, 2002] • iPhrase a 'Natural' Choice for Terra Lycos [article: Internet.com, June 17, 2002] • iPhrase [source] • Lycos Finance [source] Topics: Lycos, Natural Language Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Gale Group Digitizing thousands of 18th-Century Books Gale Group is planning to digitize about 20 million pages of English-language books from the 18th century by June 2003. Via VAS&ND. • Gale Group to Digitize Most 18th-Century English-Language Books, Doubles InfoTrac Holdings [article: Information Today, June 17 2002] Topics: Digitization Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Browsers This entry lists all browser related entries. • Browser Plug-Ins [June 23 2002] • Mozilla Tools & Information [June 17 2002] Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Mozilla Tools & Information ResearchBuzz lists a number of useful resources for Mozilla users. • Mozilla Resources [article: ResearchBuzz, June 17 2002] Browsers Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   RSS This entry lists all RSS related entries. • Introduction to RSS [June 27 2002] • Virtual Acquisition Shelf Launches RSS Feed [June 19 2002] • Features Chart: RSS Aggregators [June 17 2002] • New AmphetaDesk Version [June 17 2002] Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   New AmphetaDesk Version The popular news aggregator AmphetaDesk has released version 0.93. Via ResearchBuzz. • AmphetaDesk Releases Version 0.93 [article: ResearchBuzz, June 17 2002] Topics: RSS Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Kids Internet This entry lists all kids search tools and filtering related entries. • Google Adds SafeSearch to Google Groups [July 3 2002] • Big Portals Adopt Objectionable Content Tags [June 25 2002] • Kid-Safe Search Tools [June 17 2002] Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Kid-Safe Search Tools From the Chicago Tribune, an article about kid-safe search tools. Mentions include Ask Jeeves Kids, CyberSleuth Kids, and Fact Monster. See Fagan Finder - Kids Search Tools for others. • Safe search engines for kids using Internet [article: Chicago Tribune, June 17 2002] Topics: Kids Internet Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Police use Google to Catch Hijacker A Canadian officer found a lead using Google which resulted in the capture of a criminal. The article says that the practice was uncommon 'at the time', so it likely refers to several years ago. From Canoe via Google Weblog. • Police - a new user group for Google [forum thread: Webmaster World, June 14 2002] • Google Catches Hijacker [blog entry: Google Weblog, June 13 2002] • Hijacker to be sentenced [article: Canoe (CP), June 11 2002] Topics: Google Date: Monday, June 17, 2002   |     |   permalink   Website Design This entry lists all website design related entries. • Google tells Amazon Light to Cease and Desist Using Google's Design [August 4 2002] • WiseNut Redesign [July 2 2002] • Yahoo! Redesign [June 16 2002] • Ask Jeeves Redesign [June 16 2002] Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   Yahoo! Redesign Yahoo! has a beta version of a redesign for its home page. This is arguably Yahoo!'s biggest redesign ever. The purpose is to simplify and increase the prominence of the advertisements. Now scrolling is required just to view Yahoo's directory. • New to Yahoo: Home-Page Improvement [article: Washington Post, June 16 2002] • Yahoo Launches Beta Version of Homepage [article: ResearchBuzz, June 12 2002] • New Yahoo Look [forum thread: Webmaster World, June 11 2002] • Yahoo launches redesigned home page [article: C|Net, June 10 2002] • Yahoo cleans up home page with beta [article: Mercury News, June 10 2002] • Yahoo Reformats Main, Shopping and Mail Pages [article: BizReport, June 10 2002] • Yahoo to give home page a makeover [article: C|Net, June 7 2002] • Yahoo! Beta Homepage [source] Topics: Website Design, Yahoo Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   Meetup - New Site Brings People Together Meetup is a new (free) website designed to bring people with the same interests, who live in the same area, together. The website is brand new, so there aren't very many people signed up yet. You can browse by location or topic, or search by topic. Via Daypop Top 40. • Meetup [source] Topics: New Websites Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   How Google Innovates Great article on Fast Company about Google's internal method for innovating. Apparently every Google employee, regardless of position, is encouraged to participate in Google's internal ideas website. Marissa Mayer, product manager at Google, looks through the website. Every Friday there is a one hour meeting where employees can present their ideas. Via Daypop Top 40. • Googlers Googling Google [blog entry: Google Weblog, June 17 2002] • How Google Searches Itself [article: Fast Company, July 2002 issue] Topics: Google Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   MSN This entry lists all MSN, MSN Search, and MSN Hotmail related entries. • The Popular Sites in Israel [June 25 2002] • Big Portals Adopt Objectionable Content Tags [June 25 2002] • Yahoo May Switch from Google to Fast (also MSN) [June 16 2002] Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   Google This entry lists all Google related entries. • Google Now Using RouteScience to Improve Connection [August 4 2002] • Why Google is Successful [August 4 2002] • Overview of Google Answers [August 4 2002] • Google tells Amazon Light to Cease and Desist Using Google's Design [August 4 2002] • Ask Jeeves Switches from Overture to Google [August 4 2002] • Inside the Googleplex, and all about Google [July 28 2002] • Interview with Sergey Brin [July 27 2002] • Google's PageRank Technology [July 27 2002] • Overview of the Google Toolbar [July 27 2002] • Sam Ruby on the Google API [July 27 2002] • Google-Yahoo Contract Extended Until September [July 11 2002] • Google's Success in France [July 10 2002] • Everyone's Using Google [July 10 2002] • Use "OR" or "|" on Google [July 7 2002] • View Related Pages Graphically [July 4 2002] • Slashdot's Interview with Craig Silverstein [July 3 2002] • Google Adds SafeSearch to Google Groups [July 3 2002] • July Google Newsletter [July 2 2002] • AT&T Now Using Google Search and Ads [July 2 2002] • Finding People with Google [July 1 2002] • Google Catalogs Now has Over 4,000 [July 1 2002] • Google Ads 3 Interface Languages [July 1 2002] • Google Gained 4 Million Viewers in May [July 1 2002] • Ranking Higher in Google [July 1 2002] • Sergey Brin Named a Marketer of the Year [June 30 2002] • Google's Back-End [June 28 2002] • Introduction to Google Groups [June 28 2002] • Google Innovation Roundup [June 27 2002] • Google Compute Goes Public [June 27 2002] • Google Trickling into AOL Search [June 26 2002] • No More Google Challenge [June 26 2002] • Google Answers has 500 Researchers [June 26 2002] • Overview of Google & Scientology [June 26 2002] • The Popular Sites in Israel [June 25 2002] • Google vs Teoma [June 25 2002] • The (Unofficial) Google Challenge [June 24 2002] • Sentences Finished by Google [June 24 2002] • Google June Update [June 23 2002] • Browser Plug-Ins [June 23 2002] • Google vs Fast [June 21 2002] • Ask Google [June 20 2002] • Search Engines & Profits [June 20 2002] • Google's Search Appliance Gets More Powerful [June 19 2002] • Le Monde Interviews Google, Google Opens French Office [June 19 2002] • Google says Overture's Patent is Invalid [June 19 2002] • 2002 Webby Awards [June 19 2002] • Google says Overture's Patent is Invalid [June 19 2002] • Police use Google to Catch Hijacker [June 17 2002] • How Google Innovates [June 16 2002] • Yahoo May Switch from Google to Fast [June 16 2002] Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   Yahoo! This entry lists all Yahoo! related entries. #149; Google-Yahoo Contract Extended Until September [July 11 2002] #149; Yahoo! Internet Live Magazine Ends [July 2 2002] • Yahoo's Beta Design Moves to Home Page [July 2 2002] • Yahoo Closing Two Broadcasts Services [June 25 2002] • The Popular Sites in Israel [June 25 2002] • Big Portals Adopt Objectionable Content Tags [June 25 2002] • Yahoo! Redesign [June 16 2002] • Yahoo May Switch from Google to Fast [June 16 2002] Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   Yahoo May Switch from Google to Fast Yahoo, which currently uses Google as a back-up search engine, may be switching to Fast. The Yahoo-Google contract is expiring, and Yahoo now views Google as a potential competitor. Inktomi is the third but unlikely prospect. MSN is also considering switching from Inktomi to Fast. From Hegnar Online via Webmaster World. Update Google-Yahoo Contract Extended Until September • Will Google Defend its Yahoo Turf? [article: Traffick, June 24 2002] • Fast skal lokke Yahoo! og Microsoft med nye teknikker [article: digi.no, June 18 2002, Norwegian] • FAST is negotiating with Yahoo! and MSN [blog entry: Pandia, June 15 2002] • FAST: We're in talks with Yahoo [forum thread: Webmaster World, June 13 2002] • Går unna i Fast [article: Hegnar Online, June 12 2002, Norwegian] Topics: Inktomi, MSN, Google, Yahoo Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   Fast Search and Transfer This entry lists all Fast Search and AllTheWeb related entries. • Fast Endorses FTC Recommendations [August 4 2002] • Fast Introduces AllTheWeb Alchemist [July 27 2002] • Interview With Fast [July 12 2002] • International AllTheWeb [June 27 2002] • Google vs Fast [June 21 2002] • Yahoo May Switch from Google to Fast [June 16 2002] • AllTheWeb includes 'PDF only' Option [June 16 2002] • Fast Breaks 2 Billion Pages [June 16 2002] Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   AllTheWeb includes 'PDF only' Option AllTheWeb, which recently added PDF (Portable Document Format) files to its index, now has a checkbox on the advanced search page to restrict searches to PDF files only. Google is the only other major search engine with this option. • AllTheWeb Adds "PDF Only" Limit To Advanced Interface [blog entry: VAS&ND, June 16 2002] • AllTheWeb Advanced Search [source] Topics: Fast, Invisible Web Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   Fast Breaks 2 Billion Pages Fast Search's index now contains over two billion pages. Google is the only other search engine that has reached that milestone. Lycos Search, which uses Fast's index is also showing two billion plus pages. The number of pages in both Fast's and Google's index fluctuates, however at the moment Fast's seems to be larger (2.1 billion vs 2.07). Google's number includes unindexed URLs, so Fast has indexed more pages than Google. Fast actually crawled 6-8 billion pages before removing spam and duplicates. Many sources have speculated that Google will soon increase the size of their index in response. Fagan Finder predicted this long ago. • AlltheWeb versus Google [newsletter: WebReference, June 20 2002] • Wellesley-based search engine takes on Google [article: Boston Globe, June 19 2002] • AlltheWeb.com Claims to Outpace Google [article: PCWorld (Computerworld), June 19 2002] • Alltheweb.Com Overtakes Google As The World's Largest Search Engine [article: EContent, June 19 2002] • FAST beansprucht neuen Weltrekord [blog entry: @-web, June 18 2002, German] • Fast has the largest search engine database [article: Pandia, June 18 2002] • Fast Search Claims Google's Size Crown, For Now [article: ComputerWire, June 18 2002] • Fast stjeler førsteplassen tilbake fra Google [article: digi.no, June 17 2002, Norwegian] • AlltheWeb Surpasses Google in Size of Web Index [article: Reuters, June 17 2002] • Fast’s AllTheWeb.com Dethrones Google as The World’s Largest Search Engine [press release: Fast Search, June 17 2002] • AllTheWeb: An Essential and Must Use Search Engine [blog entry: VAS&ND, June 17 2002] • AlltheWeb claims to index more Internet information than Google [forum thread: NeoWin.net, June 17 2002] • Norwegian AllTheWeb Claims Bigger Index Than Google [forum thread: Slashdot, June 17 2002] • Norwegian search engine strives to topple Google [article: Ananova, June 17 2002] • The little engine that could beat Google [article: C|Net, June 17 2002] • Cult search engine 'bigger than Google' [article: vnunet.com, June 17 2002] • FAST Sprints Past Google in Search Engine Size Wars [newsletter: SearchDay, June 17 2002] • AlltheWeb's engine chugs past Google [article: Globe & Mail (AP), June 16, 2002] • FAST have reached the 2 Billion index [forum thread: Webmaster World, June 13 2002] Topics: Fast Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   Ask Jeeves This entry lists all Ask Jeeves and Teoma related entries. • Ask Jeeves Switches from Overture to Google [August 4 2002] • Teoma Database Update [July 2 2002] • Google vs Teoma [June 25 2002] • Teoma Toolbar [June 21 2002] • Search Engines & Profits [June 20 2002] • The State of Ask Jeeves [June 20 2002] • Ask Jeeves Redesign [June 16 2002] Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink   Ask Jeeves Redesign Ask Jeeves has redesigned their website. There are now tabs for 'web', 'news', and 'shopping', a news headlines page, and Jeeves IQ. The news search and headlines are powered by Moreover. Jeeves IQ lists the top ten searches for the past week, and the top five searches about travel and about news. Jeeves IQ does not include adult related queries. • Jeeves Gets a New Look [article: ResearchBuzz, June 17 2002] • Ask Jeeves adopts minimalist motif [article: C|Net, June 14 2002] • New Skin for Jeeves [forum thread: Webmaster World, June 11 2002] • Updates from FirstGov and Ask Jeeves [newsletter: SearchDay, June 10 2002] • Ask Jeeves [source] • Ask Jeeves UK [source] • Ask Jeeves' News Headline [source] • Jeeves IQ [source] Topics: Website Design, Ask Jeeves Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002   |     |   permalink

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