Articles Sorted By Search Engine(3094) Articles in this category are broken down by search engine. These articles primarily cover business oriented issues.
Legal Issues(129) From lawsuits, to dealing with governments, the articles in this category cover the domestic and international legal issues facing search engines.
Artificial intelligence and the smarter search engine
Date: 2003-11-10 Source: Computerworld
Within three to five years, we could see a very different, next-generation search engine -- one that could extract specific facts, draw inferences and organize those facts based on a few key words, says Tom Mitchell, former president of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence in Menlo Park, Calif. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search engines face drug test
Date: 2003-11-10 Source: News.com
A major U.S. pharmacy trade group is pressuring Web-based search engines to ban advertisements from unlicensed drug dealers, highlighting growing pains for the Net's newest marketing powerhouses. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Support for third player as Yahoo! drops Espotting
Date: 2003-11-10 Source: newmediazero
The paid-for search sector needs a strong third player in order to prevent giants Google and Overture from ramping up prices. So say media buyers in response to news that Espotting has been dropped by its highest-profile distribution partner, Yahoo!. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The US White House & Blocking Search Engines
Date: 2003-11-06 Source: SearchDay
At the end of last month, controversy erupted over the US White House preventing portions of its web site from being indexed by search engines. Was the White House doing this as a means to rewrite history unnoticed, or was it an innocent mistake? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Down the Pub with : Brett Tabke WebmasterWorld
Date: 2003-11-05 Source: searchengineblog.com
The biggest thing for webmasters this last year, was the realization that it was really down to one and one only engine worth even considering for traffic. That in turn has led many site owners to start persuing alternative avenues of traffic. Newsletters, Blogs, partnerships, and even old fashioned classified ads have had a whole new resurgence on the web and off as traffic generators. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
It's in the algorithms
Date: 2003-11-04 Source: e-Content Institute
A search war is looming that will see search engines emerge sporting fancy new algorithms that customize search results for each and every individual searcher. That is, they will if mathematicians can overcome the personalization dilemma and develop search engines that deliver more relevant, customized search results based on our individual needs, interests and search patterns, rather than the group consensus approach taken by Google. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Prime Visibility
Date: 2003-11-03 Source: ComputerUser.com
Once a Web site gets created and tweaked, it won't do to just sit back and hope that people visit. Heavy site traffic requires serious marketing strategy, as Bethpage-based Prime Visibility well knows. Founder Andrew Hazen talks about lazy students, search engine marketing, and his theory of search evolution. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Player Aims for Optimization
Date: 2003-11-03 Source: InternetNews.com
Pay-per-click search engine optimization and online marketing vendor GO TOAST Monday launched its CampaignOptimizer, a strategic planning and management tool for keyword search marketers. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Non-English Search Tool Takes the Web World Wider
Date: 2003-10-31 Source: BizReport
A technology for finding Web sites by typing words into the address bar of a browser is taking off in South Korea after failing in the United States, and could make the Internet more accessible for non-English speakers. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Amazon: Sales up from book search
Date: 2003-10-30 Source: News.com
Just a week after Amazon.com introduced a tool that lets people search the entire text of many books it sells, the online retailer reported a boost in sales as a result of the feature. The Seattle-based company said Thursday that its "Search Inside the Book" feature, which launched Oct. 23, lifted sales for searchable books by 9 percent, compared with titles not part of the in-text database. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Amazon: Searching and Searching
Date: 2003-10-29 Source: Fool.com
The move may be Amazon's latest maneuver in the battle against Google over search results. Besides expanding its offerings through partnerships, Amazon has sought to take greater hold in the online marketplace through forming its own search unit, A9.com. In the days after Amazon's announcement, Google, perhaps on the defensive, announced that it had been holding its own conversations with publishers about a searchable online database of published content. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Analyzing Search Engines as Invesments
Date: 2003-10-29 Source: SearchDay
Search has become increasingly popular, but do the common stocks of search engines make a good investment? High-tech investment analysts share a glimpse of the techniques they see to value publicly traded search firms, and which companies appear to be succeeding. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Graphical Web searching gets Mooted
Date: 2003-10-28 Source: pcworld.idg.com.au
A new Australian search engine which claims to be the first of its kind to intuitively cluster Web search results has been forced to shut down some of its advanced search functionality and boost server capacity after just one week online due to an overwhelming surge in international traffic. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Mooter takes bold leap into cyberspace
Date: 2003-10-28 Source: The Age
Liesl Capper may be one of the bravest businesswomen in Australia. As chief executive of MooterSearch she has just launched a new internet search engine, plunging into what is, potentially, one of the bloodiest battlefields in cyberspace. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Robots.txt and White House Conspiracies
Date: 2003-10-28 Source: About Web Search
To think that a simple file that excludes search engines would allow the White House to cover up any changes they make to publicly released statements about Iraq is simply silly. Journalists and political watchdogs around the world keep incredible records of every statement the White House releases on matters as important as this one and would cry foul the moment the White House tried to claim that they never made a particular statement. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Queries Guide Web Crawlers
Date: 2003-10-22 Source: Technology Review
The algorithm, dubbed Vox Populi, picks up trends by analyzing patterns in people's Web search behavior. Vox Populi sends information about what the average user is looking for to the Web crawler component of an existing search system with instructions to more thoroughly index relevant sites. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The State of the Search Engine Industry
Date: 2003-10-22 Source: SearchDay
Noted search engine experts and analysts explored the major themes and trends driving the current and future state of the industry in a lively, wide-ranging forum at the Search Engine Strategies conference. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Australian Mooter takes on Google
Date: 2003-10-21 Source: ZDNet
In what it claims is an implementation of "artificial intelligence", the Mooter search engine groups together information in logical clusters, which is designed to save time. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Behind the theory of disruptive success
Date: 2003-10-15 Source: News.com
Several months ago, I talked to a fast-growing, privately held search company about alternatives. My advice? Sell out--now! ...When mega companies are threatened, the response is often brutal and fatal. Unless the upstart has seemingly invincible barriers to entry, it is rational to believe that selling out is the right course of action. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
