search engine showdown update the shifting sands of search
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Search Engine Showdown Update The Shifting Sands of Search. Greg R. Notess SearchEngineShowdown.com. Year Worth of Changes. Google Prominence & Dominance Other Search Engine News Ownership Shuffle Vital Statistics Mortality & Natality. Google Prominence. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Search Engine Showdown Update The Shifting Sands of Search
Greg R. NotessSearchEngineShowdown.com
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Year Worth of Changes
Google Prominence & Dominance Other Search Engine News
Ownership Shuffle Vital Statistics
Mortality & Natality
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Google Prominence
Often now: first & only search engine Heavy traffic & time spent Now claims 250 million searches per DAY
Very active early in 2002 Partnerships at end of 2002 Portal / Destination Move?
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Early 2002 Activity
Google Catalogs Google APIs Google Programming Competition Google Labs
Voice search Keyboard shortcuts Google sets Glossary project
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More Recent Activity
Froogle Product (Shopping) Search
Buys Blogger Not Directly Search Related
Combined with News = More Destination Google Labs Adds
Google View Web Quotes
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Revenue Generating Activity
AdWords Select Competes with Overture, Espotting
Google Search Appliance Google Answers Content-Specific Ads
Not Search Related
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Evolving Partnership Deals
Switched from Inktomi to Google AOL CompuServe iWon
Made Google more Prominent Yahoo! Netscape Search
Go Goes from Overture to Google
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Google News
Expanded scope Over 4,000 news sources A 30 day archive
Emphasis on Algorithmic Browse Commercial Online
Has Much More Archive Depth
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Search Feature Changes
Aggressive spell checking in English automatic correction if misspelling = 0 Now turned off?
Stop words searchable in phrases Even ‘the,’ formerly non-searchable
Wildcard in phrase “addictive * vice of biblioscopy”
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Google Backlash
Banned in China for awhile Censored at google.fr, google.de
cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/google Sued in U.S. Privacy Concerns Dominance / Monopoly Concerns
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Other Search Engine News
Google is not comprehensive Others offer unique features, content FAST at Lycos & AlltheWeb AltaVista Inktomi at MSN Search & Hotbot Teoma
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FAST Activity
Starts Indexing PDF, Flash, Word Docs Lycos adds Fast Forward Main Activity at AlltheWeb Overture Announces Intent to Buy
AlltheWeb and Web Search Portion of FAST Not the Enterprise Search Side
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AlltheWeb Changes
Full Boolean Searching (finally) Size limits, IP address limits PDF and Flash file limit User-customizable date limit Embedded content limit KWIC display Home page/doc depth limit (now gone) FAST Topics also gone
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AltaVista
Overture to Acquire Remodeled: Larger, Fresher Geo Targeting Added PDF indexing Prisma (11% Usage, More Languages) Truncation Improved (* = unlimited) News Search: More Depth & Features
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HotBot Relaunch
Now with 4 Databases AlltheWeb, Google, Inktomi, Teoma Sequential, not simultaneous searches Emphasis on Customization & Advanced
Search Some Inktomi Search Features Gone
No truncation No page depth No unclustering
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Inktomi (at MSN Search, HotBot) Yahoo! Buys Inktomi Indexes PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint Larger, Fresher Database Geo Targeting Smart Abstracts
KWIC, editorial, or custom
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Teoma
Bought by Ask Jeeves Last Year Teoma Adds More Advanced Features
Field searching intitle: inurl: site:
Boolean capability expands OR available, but does not yet combine well
Advanced Search Page
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Search Engine Vital Statistics Mortality
Northern Light Direct Hit
Natality OpenFind (Taiwan research)
Large, but very much a prototype Gigablast
Advanced Features, Cache, Honesty in Dates
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Current State of Search Engines Google Remains Important
Sole source for some info Google Groups File types such as .rtf, .ps, .wpd
Size and scope Cached files
Other Search Engines Offer additional content & features Still surviving New ones still being created
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Current Status of Major SE DatabasesDatabase Also At Owned ByAlltheWeb Lycos, HotBot Overture
AltaVista -- Overture
Google AOL, Yahoo!, others Google
Inktomi HotBot, MSN, Overture
Yahoo!
Teoma Ask Jeeves, HotBot Ask Jeeves
WiseNut -- LookSmart
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Search Engine Update
SearchEngineShowdown.comMore on Advanced FeaturesFeature ChartDetailed Reviews