Internet Search News Archive 2001

Below find a list of messages on search engine and directory news published by Pandia in 2001. For the latest news on search engines and Internet searching, go to the Pandia Search World home page.

DECEMBER 2001

• Yahoo introduces annual fee.
• The Pandia Post Newsletter on Internet searching No. 11
• Google breaks the 3 billion documents barrier

NOVEMBER 2001

• The end of Excite as we know it
• Google allows stop words in search phrases
• Google is testing voting tool bar
• AllTheWeb adds updated news searching and topic oriented grouping of search results
• The future of Fast
• The new design of the Lycos search portal
• Google adds more file types to its search engine index

OCTOBER 2001

• Google considers subscription services
• Upcoming search engine conferences
• On the size of the World Wide Web
• Fast dominates European searching

SEPTEMBER 2001

• Searching for the predictions of Nostradamus
• The ambiguous Inktomi anti-spam policy
• Ask Jeeves buys Teoma
• GoTo changes name to Overture
• Yahoo! Express inclusion now costs USD 299

AUGUST 2001

• The financial woes of Fast
  
• AltaVista drops local databases
  
• Fast develops new and larger search engine index
  
• Excite in big trouble
• The final end for the NBCI/Snap directory
• The Atomz website search engine

JULY 2001

• LookSmart and Zeal directories united
• Life in the Fast lane
• Internet marketing pub conference
• GoTo invades the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser
• NBCi now serves GoTo results only

JUNE 2001

• LookSmart launches new paid inclusion program
• Google's new image search
• AltaVista offers paid inclusion program
• The future of Excite and Inktomi
• Coming search engine conferences
• Fast offers paid inclusion program

MAY 2001

• Excite to close sites in Germany, France and Spain
• New search keyword database from Wordtracker
• Google allows Usenet postings
• The relaunch of the Profusion metasearch engine
• New daily newsletter from Search Engine Watch
• New changes at AltaVista

APRIL 2001

• Full Usenet archive now available
• Search Engine Sizes
• What Web searchers want
• Fast lays off "idiots"
• The end of the NBCi directory?
• New newsletter on Web searching
• On online translation

MARCH 2001

• FindWhat to deliver paid results to Excite
• Pandia launches search engine promotion portal
• Apple closes the iReview site
• AltaVista launches news search
• New image based search engine
• Pandia Awards 2001
• GoTo replaces Infoseek at Go
• Napster in deep trouble
• More changes from AltaVista

FEBRUARY 2001

• Google buys Deja.com
• Another new look for AltaVista
• Google starts indexing Acrobat pdf files

JANUARY 2001

• Disney to close the Go portal
• Pandia redesigns its Powersearch gateway
• An AltaVista search engine monopoly?
• The alternative AltaVista
• The new Sprawlnet search engine
• Deja.com moves back to square one: Usenet searching
• The Scout Report launches new searchable archives

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