As of January, 2012, this site is no longer being updated, due to work and health issues

Changes On the Search Tools Site in 1999

See the Current Year Change List

Date	Changes
11/9	Added example to Site Server page, article to Index Server, updated inQuery page with new ownership, added Linux info to Fulcrum page Updated Conferences pages. Added link to Robots White Paper to Robots Info page. Minor additions to Metadata, XML Resources, and Classifiers pages.
11/6	Updated Conferences pages. Updated Virage page, SearchButton page. Created Google Remote Search Service and WannaSearch pages. Added MiniSearch and IndexMySite to Remote Search Service Review
11/05	Updated articles on AltaVista Search page, Verity page, Ultraseek page, Excite page. Updated Microsoft Site Server page. Added Evaluation paper to the Overviews page. Moved Articles page to Reviews folder, added Reviews Index page. New UI page in the Related Topics folder.
10/15	Added robot directory and non-text page test files. Added index page for info folder.
10/11	Added protected folders for robot tests, one with allow code and one without. Updated ASTAWare SearchKey page, added API to Code Libraries page cleaning up Microsoft Site Server page.
09/27	Updated SearchButton page. Updated DocFather page. Updated ht://Dig page. Updated Ultraseek page. Updated XML Resources page. Updated Excalibur Retrievalware page. Minor update to PDF page. Minor updates to Information Retrieval page. Updated Conferences page. Updated Inktomi page. Added mailing list link to the PLWeb page.
09/22	Added Remote Site Search Service review. Added Second Survey Results and Search Tools Ratings. Updated Conferences page. Added XML Query language mailing list link. Added Verity at TREC-6 link and other Verity articles. Changed "Directory Creation Tools" to "Classification Tools". updated Glossary updated Intranets page. Added Trident Search Site Server page. Added articles to Robots page. Removed "site search tools" and just used "Search Tools" on many pages. Added IndexMySite remote search service page. Added MiniSearch remote search service page.
09/09	updated Glossary added info on atomz PDF search.
09/08	added Natural Language Processing (NLP) section to Information Retrieval page and News page. changed from "default.html" to "index.html" added gateway page "searchtools.html" to try to capture searches for the word 'searchtools'
08/06	removed inappropriate links from the examples folder pages.
08/03	Added intraSearch to the Search page (it had been missing) Updated robots.txt file to avoid indexing examples and temporary st subdirectory
07/24	Finished News page. Updated XML and Search page.
07/23	Added link to WebMonkey Perl code article. Added new robots info to robots.txt page. Added SiteMiner remote site search engine. Updated PLWeb page.
07/22	Added Super Site Search (Perl CGI, with directory creation modules). Added "Modern Information Retrieval" book to Overviews page, Information Retrieval and Visualization. Also new edition of "Managing Gigabytes". Added Inktomi Directory Engine to Directory Creation Tools page. Added Virage page. Updated XML and Search page. Updated ht://Dig page. Updated Knowledge Management page.
07/21	Added atomz remote site search engine, also to Search page. Updated price for Webinator. Added information on SurfMap Search and it's sister PortalAuthor product. Minor updates to Metadata and XML Resources pages. Added PerlfectSearch page. Added page of Linux Search Engines to Links page. Updated Alkaline page.
07/16	Added Report from the Search Engines Conference Cleaned up the site info page. Added Rules for Robots draft, Robots.txt page and META Robots tag page. Updated Guide page to link to them.
07/15	Updated Conferences page. Added new Robot Testing page.
04/01	Finished Survey Results and Survey Ratings pages. Updated News page.
03/31	Added MAI and LinkBank to Directory Creation Tools page. Added a paper to the Cross-Language Information Retrieval section. Minor update to Excalibur RetrievalWare page. Minor update to Webinator page. Added a Search Interface article to Overviews page. Updated intraSearch page. Updated WAIS page with Y2K compatibility link. Added Sybrarian to the Directory Creation Tools page. Separated XML info into two pages: XML and Search, and XML Resources. Updated Boolean Search page. Fixed problems with the mailing list addresses on the home pages and the list pages.
03/30	Updated ZyIndex URLs New information on Harvest NG in the Harvest page. Added free Entry Level info to AltaVista Search Intranet page. Updated information on PicoSearch remote site search page. Updated Conferences page. Added a book to the Visualization page. Updated PDF Search page with information about PDF-to-text converter.
03/14	Added Search User Experience section to Guide page. Added Cha-Cha presentation link to Information Retrieval page.
03/13	Updated XML page: lots of new info about XML and Search, XML Query, Metadata, and how it all works together. Updated Information Retrieval page with report from the Infonortics search conference. Updated Conferences page.
03/05	Ultraseek now runs on Linux.
02/10	Added SearchButton remote search hosting service report, links. ht://Dig updated to version 3.1
02/03	Added Web IR and IE link to Information Retrieval page. Updated News.
02/01	New product reports for Extense, FAST Search and SiteSurfer. Updated DocFather report with new version info
01/29	Created a section in Information Retrieval page for academic research projects and added IBM's Clever and UC Berkeley's Cha-Cha. Added Judy Brown and Jared Spool articles to Overviews. Added AIAT (Sherlock) code library report. Added WebCat library web interface report. Added Metabot to Metadata page. Updated Conferences page. Added JHLSearch Java site & CD search tool report.
01/28	Added SiteSearch-GD Perl Script report. Added Alkaline to the list of PDF-compatible tools. Added the Inxight LinguistX library information. Started a summary and listing for directory creation tools. Rearranged all the sublistings in the tools folder so the cross-references are now on the bottom.
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.

For earlier changes to the site, see the 1998 Change List