A recent tour of Google headquarters (Aug. 13), and a highly cordial meeting with staff responsible for their advertising programs, offered me palpable confirmation: This is a young company on top of the world but taking...
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Google’s search partnership with Yahoo is coming up for renewal. Recall that Google extended its reach significantly and gained credibility when it was chosen to provide search infrastructure for Yahoo, replacing Inktomi, which had...
Infospace, the undisputed world heavyweight champion in metasearch, has rolled out a new search engine under the Excite Metasearch brand name. Recall that Infospace, which also operates metasearch engines Dogpile and Metacrawler, acquired the traffic and brand and various...
This is the first blog to the new, improved Traffick weblog. How can it be a weblog, you ask, if we’re not using blogger or some other “blog tool” to build it? Um, because...
Those who are concerned about major search engines’ poor track record for relevance will be delighted to know that Teoma is alive and well and living with Jeeves. Importantly, although acquired outright by Ask Jeeves in...
So how are the rating agencies doing when it comes to tracking down which search engine is really most popular with users? A fresh article by Danny Sullivan notes that Jupiter Media Metrix is finally...
What is it with people who think they invented the Internet? Or at least seemingly important aspects of it? Not so long ago in absolute terms, but an eon ago in Internet time, a company called...
Why did Google win? No, you haven’t missed any awards ceremonies, and yes, there are still a few other search engine companies in business. But consider this: if you’ve looked at yours or anyone else’s server...
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FAST Search Targets Enterprise Clients and Mid-Range Webmasters with Site Search Products
FAST Search has made some recent announcements which indicate that its focus will increasingly be on the enterprise and middle-range site search market. Recently-announced FAST PartnerSite is a site search product which competes with companies like Google, Atomz,...
How many editors does it take to build an Internet directory? How about 500,000? That’s how many people use online bookmarking service HotLinks. Similar to Backflip, HotLinks allows users to quickly save and categorize their favorite links in an online...