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As of January, 2012, this site is no longer being updated, due to work and health issues

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1998 Changes On the Search Tools Site

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Date	Changes
12/31	New Boolean Search report. Updated dtSearch page to include code library information. New code library listing page New Findex code library report.
12/28	New intraSearch remote site search from whatUSeek. New JObjects QuestAgent Pure Java index and search tool. Added several items to the Conferences listing. Updated listing pages and added new Remote Search Hosting Services listing. Added CGI-resources listings to the Links page. Added new Folio siteDirector page, training info on Training page, new article to Intranet page. Updated MondoSearch page with examples and overview (also added to search page). Updated Knowledge Management page with Illuminar review, knowledge management concept analysis and criticism.
12/17	Updated Knowledge Management page, added stock info and quarterly press releases for Verity, Open Text and PC DOCS/Fulcrum. Updated ASTAWare SearchKey page with new prices, example link, stock information.
12/16	Added survey link to news page
12/14	Updated conferences page.
12/06	Set up site search survey.
11/29	Added chami.com tips and Add search to your site CNET article to Overviews. New FreeFind remote indexing service New Selena Sol's Keyword Search Perl CGI Extracted ICE ice.html from the Perl listing. Added Intermediate Search and Xavatoria Indexed Search Engine (Perl scripts) Added Aeneid and WEBPLANET to MetaSearch section.
11/28	Added Cross-Language Information Retrieval to Information Retrieval page. Updated Conferences page. Separated Overviews page into Links, Newsgroups & Mailing Lists, and Training pages. Added Search Engines books to Overviews page. Added XMLInfo.com to XML page. Added Intranet Journal survey to the Reviews page. Ultraseek 3.0 info in Ultraseek and XML pages. Added scripting article to Microsoft Index Server page. Metasearch section in webwide search page. Intranet survey to reviews, survey and Ultraseek pages; ht://Dig survey to survey and ht://Dig pages.
11/21	Added Extended Character Code Test Page.
11/17	New Alkaline search tool report. Updated Isearch report. Added 1996 comprehensive report: "A review of robot based internet search services" to the Overviews page.
11/12	Ultraseek XML news.
10/23	Extended description of local file and robot spider indexers on Guide page. New MondoSearch page. New PicoSearch and NetCreations PinPoint Remote Indexers. Updates and new version info for Phantom, Webinator, and Ultraseek. Added Web Navigation book to News. Web Developer.com Guide to Search Engines book note in News, their BDDBot Java engine gets its own page. Added dc:DC and Builder.com Live Search Panel to Conferences page Added Education Dept. example process to the Guide page, and various product pages. Updated Site Info page.
10/6	Added info on Legacy Publishing to the Guide page.
9/14	Updated Reviews page. Added ITMS report. Added I-Search report. Updated the Search Administrators Guide, adding information on Search Engine Types and Search Indexes. Updated the Glossary and extracted a Markup Language Glossary. Updated XML page Added RSAC rating
08/29	New Information on RDF, XML-QL, and Sgrep. Added InQuizit report Added Domino Extended Search report Added Webinator Remote Index to Search page. New Conferences page. Updated Overviews page. Added Lotus info to Knowledge Management page Fixed link problems on for ICE (Perl script) Updated ASTAWare SearchKey, DocFather pages Added image.
08/10	server finally seems to be stable Updated tools listings Info on NetResult's name change to SearchKey Plus Updated CHIC information in Distributed Indexing page
08/08	Added Dataware Knowledge Management System to Knowledge Management page and XML page. Updated XML page with listings, articles and annotations. Added dtSearch, Dataware BRS/Search and ZyIndex pages. Added Data Warehousing Information Center - Document Retrieval Tools listing to Overviews. New link to SPEX: Evaluation Kits: Web Search Engines in Reviews.
08/06	New articles in Overviews, also put in the News page. Re-arranged default search page to include both Phantom and SearchButton.
08/04	Added example links, fixed bad URLs and other mistakes in Muscat entries. News on the BUS XML search engine
07/27	New info for PDF searching, including ht://Dig.
07/26	New review for Isys:Web. New Web Server 4-D Site-Search short report Both of the above can index and search PDF documents.
07/20	News about Verity corporate management as well as more articles about their products. Added Tecumseh Scout product page. New Perl listings, including Matt's Simple Search. Updated inQuery report with version 5 press release.
07/13	Added price and platform information to most of the Tools pages. New Information Retrieval link to Andrew McFarlane's listings. News about Infoseek's Java Search Engine project.
07/11	New Magnifi and Muscat product pages. New page on SOIF and RDM. News on Open Text. Updated Web Admin Guide, improvements to the selection section and new maintenance and search log analysis sections.
07/08	New PDF Search page Additional review for Fulcrum
07/05	New info for SWISH, NetResults.
06/30	Overview listing for NewHoo - Computers:Software:Internet:Servers. New info for AltaVista, examples for Excerpt, ht://Dig Examples, conference presentation and info about the paid support and customization for WebGlimpse. New information on Harvest. University of Pennsylvania evaluation of search engines in overviews.
06/25	News only.
06/17	PLS news Started Search Tools News mailing list, sign-up page added forms on front page for mailing list sign-up and site search
06/12	Added a bunch of stuff on Excalibur RetrievalWare. More knowledge management information
06/11	This site is Cool Tool of the Day :-) Updated DocFather report (formerly called SiteSearch).
06/10	Info on Lycos' crawler patent.
06/09	New Thunderstone Webinator page. Added May 97 article to intranets page. Updated knowledge management page.
06/03	Created product lists by platforms: Java, Mac, Unix, and Windows in additional to the alphabetical listing. More links for intranets. More links for knowledge management.
06/02	New Compass review.
05/31	Added award to Ultraseek page. Added Htgrep to the Perl page. Added new articles to the Overview page. Added Cold Fusion info for Verity.
05/29	Added link to Alise new link in the Overview page to Netscape Compass Server 3.0: Bringing Order to Intranet Chaos and Netscape Learning: Compass Server. New MetaData page in Related Topics area covering the concepts, Dublin Core and Warwick Framework standards. Added information about Recall and Precision to Glossary page. Improved the What is a Web Site Search Tool page. Added a Sovereign Hill InQuery page. Added an Inktomi page.
05/04	Added some new articles to the Overviews page, links from the Reviews page to tools information pages copied reviews to the local tools info pages added ht://Dig information added to the XML page. Updated News page with new site info. Added platform icons to the tools page. New Search Tools Consulting info page.
05/03	info about Java applets that let you index sites where you don't have server access other Java search tools including Cybotics Java Servlet Search Tool (very cool) Quadralay WebWorks Search
05/01	Changed "products" to "tools" added Related Topics folder other site rearrangements as I prepare to co-locate the server.
04/27	News from web.builder conference (and moved it to the info folder), combined commercial and shareware in tools page.
04/02	Added more tools information.
04/01	Lots of work on Tools.
03/30	Everything is new