Excite Goes Meta
Although I still consider Excite a “dead” search engine since it no longer gathers, builds, and makes searchable its own database, the site lives on. Previously just serving results from Overture, new...
View ArticleInfoSpace Gets Google
True search engines do not always like meta search engines that seem to freeload on their hard-built databases and yet contribute not cash to the process. Google usually blocks meta search engines from...
View ArticleBullsEye Discontinued
Intelliseek has “discontinued sales and support of its BullsEye Plus and BullsEye Pro products.” And though the statement does not say so, the free BullsEye is gone as well.
View ArticleInfoSpace Offers Dogpile Toolbar
InfoSpace is introducing a toolbar with their meta search engine Dogpile. It only works in Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher and on Windows. The press release notes that the toolbar gives meta search...
View ArticleClusty from Vivisimo
Vivisimo has launched a new search site called Clusty which provides another look at Vivisimo’s clustering capabilities. A nice, new design, with tabs for Web, News, Images, Shopping, Encyclopedia, and...
View ArticleClusty Adds U.S. Government Database
Clusty, Vivisimo’s new clustering meta search engine, has added a new government search available both as a tab and a direct search site. It includes FirstGov, various think tanks, U.S. political news,...
View ArticleIxquick Redesign
Metasearch engine Ixquick has launched a redesigned site. In their press release [pdf] mentions a re-engineered algorithm, an updated user interface, an international phone directory, and results...
View ArticleInfospace to Add MSN Search
Dogpile and other Infospace search properties will add MSN Search to Google, Ask Jeeves, and Yahoo! this summer according to a company press release. With that addition, Dogpile (and other Infospace...
View ArticleMissing Pieces at Dogpile
Dogpile has been redesigned and has added the ability to easily see which results come from Google, Yahoo!, or Ask Jeeves. Clicking the button for one or more of the search engines (in the blue bar at...
View ArticleConflicting Overlap
I seem to be on a roll lately in finding Web pages that are not indexed by Google and are only found by one search engine. Yesterday I was exploring LibraryThing, a social networking and book...
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