SearchDay provides the search engine milestones for May 2003.
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What’s the best search engine?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
That’s the question Chris Sherman asks in today’s SearchDay column. Not surprisingly, there’s no clear answer.
Suit against Google Dismissed
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet and Technology Law, Search Engines
Back in October search engine and web hosting service SearchKing filed suit against Google, alleging that Google lowered its PageRank as well as the ranking for sites hosted by the company. Last week, a judge in Oklahoma dismissed the lawsuit, finding that:
PageRanks are opinions–opinions of the significance of particular Web sites as
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Search Privacy, Part 2
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
A week ago, I posted on Danny Sullivan’s article on Google and search privacy. This week, Danny follows up with Part 2 in the series, comparing Google and Yahoo! privacy policies.
How fresh is YOUR search engine?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Greg Notess at Search Engine Showdown has the latest on Search Engine Freshness, which shows that most of the databases are about a month old.
Big things ahead for search engines
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
They’re talking search engines in Budapest, and a lot of smart minds have been thinking about how to make search engines better than ever. Some pretty cool ideas here.
Find your image, all in one place
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Michael Fagan introduces his image search engine page, with links to search engines, meta searches, graphic and clip art galleries, stock photography, science, and nature, and other image sources. Just plug in your search terms, select a search engine, and you’re off!
A Google-eye View
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Geoff Nunberg reports that as Google goes, so goes the nation.
New goodies at AllTheWeb
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Since its purchase of AllTheWeb, Overture has apparently been busy making improvements to the search engine. Some of these were discussed by Gary Price over at ResourceShelf:
- Clustered results — perform a search and you’ll find your results clustered into categories at the bottom of the page
- URL Investigator — just enter a
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Is it any wonder?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
With all Google has to offer, is anybody surprised that 55.2 percent of Internet users prefer Google as a search tool? There’s no question that AllTheWeb and Teoma offer terrific research capabilities (interestingly, they aren’t even mentioned in this survey), but Google is still at the top of the heap.