Internet Search

Search engines and punctuation

By Tom Mighell on October 8, 2003

Greg Notess over at Search Engine Showdown has a brief discussion about how Google treats punctuation differently from other search engines.

Bad news for LookSmart

By Tom Mighell on October 7, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

Search service LookSmart has lost its biggest client, MSN. Seems that MSN is developing its own search engine.

This will be a big hit for LookSmart — the deal with MSN accounted for 65% of the company’s listings-driven revenue.

The ethics of deep linking

By Tom Mighell on October 6, 2003

Posted in Internet and Technology Law, Internet Search

It has been awhile since the issue of deep linking has been in the news. Robert Berkman has written a new book called Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals, and a portion of his book that discusses deep linking has been reprinted at Online Journalism Review.

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An invisible resource vanishes completely

By Tom Mighell on October 3, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

It looks like one of the pathfinders for locating resources on the Invisible Web, Invisibleweb.com, has up and disappeared (now you’ll just get redirected to Profusion). What a shame — it had a great set of links in its directory.

That was the month that was (in search engines)

By Tom Mighell on October 2, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

Like clockwork, the first of the month brings another Search Engine Milestones from Chris Sherman. This one’s for September.

Your own personal search engine

By Tom Mighell on September 30, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

Chris Sherman over at SearchDay reports on DART, a program that resides on your computer and allows you to organize and analyze your research. Looks like an interesting product. I just may have to check it out.

AdWords = Hit Counter

By Tom Mighell on September 24, 2003

Posted in Internet Search

Blogger Glennf found a way to find out how many people are searching on your name at Google: buy a set of Google AdWords.

Personalizing your search results — coming soon

By Tom Mighell on September 22, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

The folks who brought you Google’s PageRank technology have been working on something new, called Kaltix, which they hope will increase the user’s ability to personalize his or her search results. It’s still in development, but it definitely sounds promising.