Internet Search

Has Google stopped frequent crawling?

By Tom Mighell on October 30, 2002

The Google Weblog reports that Google has apparently fallen down a bit in its policy of crawling certain sites every other day, and that the cached pages from sites that get this treatment are dated September 4. I guess that means that the new pages found in Search Engine Showdown’s Freshness Update aren’t the

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More on Google site banning

By Tom Mighell on October 26, 2002

Posted in Search Engines

If you’re interested in Google’s banning of controversial websites from its French and German search results, check out this update on the technical details.

Google excludes offensive sites

By Tom Mighell on October 24, 2002

Posted in Search Engines

A Harvard University study finds that Google has excluded about 113 websites from its German and French listings. The sites are mostly anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or white supremacist in nature.

Who’s the freshest?

By Tom Mighell on October 21, 2002

Posted in Search Engines

Search Engine Showdown has updated its Freshness Showdown, showing how recently the major search engines have refreshed their links. Unsurprisingly, Google, MSN, HotBot and AltaVista all have new pages as early as 1 day old. Beware of Wisenut and Teoma — the newest pages found on those sites are over 4-6 months

Lawsuit against Google

By Tom Mighell on October 21, 2002

Posted in Internet and Technology Law, Search Engines

SearchKing, a search engine and web hosting service, is suing Google, and it’s just dying to tell you this; not only did it issue a press release on its website, it also posted the summons, complaint, and motion for preliminary injunction. The lawsuit it based on SearchKing’s placement of text…

Cool Google News Search Tip

By Tom Mighell on October 18, 2002

Posted in Search Tips

If you haven’t used Google News yet, what are you waiting for? On the home page you can get the most recent headlines in various categories, and a link under each headline to a number of “related articles.” There’s another way to do this:

When you find an article that’s right on point, copy the

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Tricks you might not know about your search engine

By Tom Mighell on October 15, 2002

Posted in Search Engines

Gary Price of The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk(among other things) has an excellent article on features of specialized search engines AllTheWeb, Alta Vista, and Google.

Check out Copernic Agent

By Tom Mighell on October 9, 2002

Posted in Search Engines

Copernic, a longtime maker of stand-alone Web search software, launched its Copernic Agent yesterday, offering features that will make your searches faster, more powerful, and much easier (or so they claim). Copernic Agent Basic is available as a free download.

A new Dogpile (it’s not what you think)

By Tom Mighell on October 5, 2002

Posted in Search Engines

InfoSpace announced that veteran meta-search tool Dogpile has been redesigned, and its new and improved site delivers a faster, cleaner, and easier-to-use search experience.