For Europeans, Google is Overwhelming Search Engine Choice
From Nielsen/MetRatings, 55 Million Europeans Using Google Online. MSN Search and Yahoo Search are distant second and third user choices.
Category «Search Engines»
Yahoo Adds Destination Features to Its Map Tool
New SmartView feature added to Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions: See this example, for the location 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, which now provides links in the following categories to services in proximity of this address: food & dining, financial and ATMs, recreation & entertainment, community services, shopping & services, travel & transportation.
With New Acquisition, Ask Jeeves Raises Stakes in Search Engine Competition
Ask Jeeves today announced the purchase, for $150 million in cash in addition to stock, of Interactive Search Holdings, owner of “Web properties and businesses [that] include My Way, My Search, My Web Search, iWon, Excite and the MaxOnline advertising network.” [thanks Donna] For background, see this Information Week article and Smartmoney.com’s financial analysis of …
Yahoo Introduces New Program to Mine Deep Web
From the Yahoo press release issued today: “YAHOO! Search launches new content acquisition program providing more relevant, comprehensive online content for users. Includes telationships with NPR, The New York Public Library,…Wikipedia, a free, multilingual online encyclopedia with articles in more than 50 languages; and the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), the National Science Foundation’s online …
Will Search Engine Consolidation Herald An End to AltaVista and AllTheWeb?
According to this Pandia article (via Search Engine Guide): “…we have to announce that the AltaVista and AlltheWeb search engines are going to die. In the near future Yahoo! will replace these unique search engines with data from the new Yahoo! search engine.”
Google Creators Join Forbes List of Billionaires
New members of the Forbes list of “World’s Richest People”: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, each worth $1 billion. The link to the complete list is here. See also this New York Times editorial, Behind the Rise of Google Lies the Rise in Internet Credibility.
Another Choice in the Meta Search Engine Arena
Officially released in September 2003, “ZapMeta is a meta-search engine, a search tool that provide users the ability of simultaneously search multiple search engines under one interface. Meta-search engines benefit users by saving them time and effort from having to individually visit multiple search engines in order to find the desired result. Along with web …
Preparing for the Google IPO
From Wired Magazine, The Complete Guide to Googlemania!…the process leading up to the IPO, the impact on the company’s employees, and predictions of what will happen thereafter.
Google Image Search Expanded
“Google Image Search has been significantly updated,” says Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and president of Technology. “We’ve doubled the index to more than 880 million images, enhanced search quality, and improved the user interface.” Google Advanced Image Search
Yahoo Launches New Search Engine
From the company’s press release: “Yahoo today announced that it has created a more comprehensive and relevant search experience for users through the deployment of its own algorithmic search technology on Yahoo!® Search (http://search.yahoo.com). Starting today, the company will begin rolling out the new Yahoo! Search Technology (YST) and expects to continue the process on …
Google Facts and Challenges Ahead
“Google Inc. today announced it expanded the breadth of its web index to more than 6 billion items…Google’s collection of 6 billion items comprises 4.28 billion web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book-related information pages.” [Link] Search wars are about to get personal indicates that although Google …
More on Search Toolbars
Tara Calishain wrote a recent article in PC Magazine reviewing half a dozen search engine toolbar applications.
