Search Engines

You can never learn too much about search engines

By Tom Mighell on April 3, 2003

Search engines are changing every day, and it pays to keep up with the latest innovations in search technology. Of course, learning the basics of search engines is a must, and where better than Search Engine Watch? Yesterday’s SearchDay provides a guide to Search Engines 101.

Changes over at Ixquick

By Tom Mighell on March 31, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

Metasearch tool Ixquick is experimenting with clustering its search results, a la Vivisimo. Give it a try. (Via Pandia)

And while you’re learning more about search skills…

By Tom Mighell on March 27, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

…learn more about the language of search engines. This article from Law.com provides a nice set of definitions of words like Boolean, Fuzzy Search, and Stemming, which links to other sites that can help you out.

Inside Google’s Success

By Tom Mighell on March 20, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

Fast Company has a long, interesting report on How Google Grows….and Grows…..and Grows.

De-Google yourself

By Tom Mighell on March 18, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

Tired of being Googled? Christina Buu-Hoan offers some tips on creating a Google-free space online.
Good luck with that. (Via Search Engine Blog)

Image search engines reviewed

By Tom Mighell on March 12, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

TASI, the Technical Advisory Service for Images, has a nice review of image search engines. If you need to perform a search for images, this report will give you some good guidance on the best tools to use.

Stores should take a clue from Google

By Tom Mighell on February 28, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

A new study reports that about two-thirds of online stores have ineffective search engines, which of course is bad for business. On the other hand, just use Froogle to search online stores, and skip the store engines entirely.

The Overture power play, Part II

By Tom Mighell on February 26, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

Last week I mentioned web advertising giant Overture’s purchase of search engine AltaVista. Apparently one search engine was not enough. This week, Overture is purchasing search services from FAST Search, which runs the terrific AllTheWeb search engine. Overture now owns two of the better search resources on the Internet — big news indeed.

The One-upsmanship continues

By Tom Mighell on February 19, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

First Yahoo purchased search engine Inktomi. Then Google buys Blogger (okay, that’s not the same, but follow me here…). Now Overture, one of Google’s rivals in the area of search-related paid advertising, has purchased search engine AltaVista. That’s AltaVista’sthird owner in the past few years; let’s see if Overture can do anything