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According to a survey of global Internet usage and search engine referrals by WebSideStory, Inc., web users are increasingly likely to go directly to sites from which they seek specific information, rather than to rely on secondary links. In addition, “…search engines apparently are becoming the card catalog to the Web,” with usage showing significant …
If you are interested in a top rate site to help you stay current on search engines, that also offers a free daily email newsletter, then head over to Search Engine Guide. The site Editor/Webmaster Robert Clough provides an excellent range of resources, including a Search Engines Directory database that can be searched or browsed, …
Check-out Tara Calishain’s new book, Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tricks.
The UK Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) released a report, A Review of Image Search Engines, on services that collect and index images from websites. The data was collected during the first week of February 2003, and includes a range of general, specialized and meta-search engines.
Via Slashdot, here is a new search engine for RSS feeds, whose name was briefly Roogle, but currently remains nameless so as to deflect a trademark issue.
Walt Mossberg, the author of the Wall Street Journal Personal Technology column (no fee req’d), gives a positive review to a nifty fee-based utility, GuruNet, in GuruNet as a Reference Tool Goes Beyond Search Engines. The program costs $35 and is marketed as “the ultimate reference program: encyclopedias, dictionary, thesaurus, companies, celebrities, stock prices, and …
AllTheWeb has redesigned their site, and added a new feature, AlltheWeb URL Investigator. See the company press release, and a review of the changes by Greg Notess. In other search engine news, Northern Light News No Longer Updating, and Google moves into a new arena, Google Content-Targeted Advertising. See Danny Sullivan’s commentary, Google Throws Hat …
The “Blogger Team” responds to some of the many questions received as a result of the announced acquisition of their company by Google.
Google obtained its first patent from the United States Patent Office, on February 25, for a “method of identifying documents relevant to a search query.” The patent (6,526,440), abstract states, “A search engine for searching a corpus improves the relevancy of the results by refining a standard relevancy score based on the interconnectivity of the …
Overture Services, Inc. has made its second major Internet search engine acquisition in one week’s time. On February 18, the company announced the purchase of AltaVista for $140 million in cash and stock. On February 25 came the announcement of the acquisition of the FAST Web Search(TM) algorithmic search, AlltheWeb.com(TM), and FAST PartnerSite(TM) paid inclusion …
Check out Word Spy, a resource that provides definitions of new words and phrases, as well as ones already in use that have taken on new meanings. What makes the site especially interesting is that it includes ‘example citations’ for each entry that illustrate the use of the word or phrase in context (with a …
Search engine Google is often the subject of news articles, but the February 15 announcement of the company’s purchase of the popular Blooger software has generated a steady stream of commentary and speculation in the blogging world and in the ‘mainstream’ press. What follows are several recent articles worth reviewing on the growing impact of …
