As of January, 2012, this site is no longer being updated, due to work and health issues

Changes on SearchTools.com in 2001

Date	Changes
12/28	Fix URL error on info index page. Add 4.3 info to Inktomi (also identify modules). Add XQuery stuff to xml page. Add Google to PDF page.
12/06	Update slides index page with Internet Librarian link. Update Conferences pages. Add simple queries paper to IR page.
12/05	Update Isys page.
12/04	Supersitesearcher, reachcast and dmp-scout product inaccessible, check again * Update Sharepoint training info. Reset UIE link to actual site. Update TEC-IMS page. Update ic-find page and add ic-classify to classifiers tools page. Update DC NISO PR approval link. Update links on intermedia page. Update northern light page, add EIP special edition to Intranets page, XML special edition to XML resources page. * Mondosearch PR link fix and new award. * Update ASPseek with a bunch of new language info * FreeFind - new review, bad link removed, new examples added Atomz - new review PicoSearch - new review Remote tools - links to new reviews * Inktomi, AskJeeves- fix bad link Search-it: gone? * index finger classifier seems to be gone. * KM page - link fixed PLS page - link fixed XML res page - XMLX bad link removed. Overviews, IA, CLIR, ice.html pages- fatbrain link fixed. Fixed mailing list archive link on robots page. Fix all the old links to webcrawler robots pages.
11/01	Fix name of UKOLN on metadata page. Add AskJeeves to listings (duh) and news. Add google to alpha list (duh).
10/30	Update 80-20 page with URL. Update Zoom page. Add Developer Mailing List page.
10/24	Add Ripfire page & update commerce, database and classification pages. Add listings to commerce page. Re-create Juggernaut page (what happened??)
10/23	Update metadata page. Update pdf page. Change name of ultra search to Enterprise Search. Update news page Update main page.
10/22	Fix many many more bad links. RightSearch acquired, service discontinued. NetMind Search-It and Seek-It servers don't respond, calling them discontinued.
10/19	Add Juggernautsearch. Update news page.
10/18	Update URL Spider page. Add autonomy link to listings pages. Fix EasyAsk platform & price info.
10/17	Add Dieselpoint page. * Add GammaSite to classifiers-tools. Alkaline 1.6 update. Update interMedia page. Update lycos/inmagic page, and change name to inmagic. Major updates to Metadata page. * Started dating pages. Added htdig secruity info to htdig and news pages, also metadata. * Added evision to multimedia search. Add web tools award to atomz page. Add ultra search and url spider pro pages. * ISearch ported to VMS * New stuff on Inxight. Upated PDF page with all known compatible SEs (about 40).
10/16	Add sourceforge to open source listing. Add Zebra toolkit. Add uiowa and ebrandmanagement to robots-books. Add watchfire to Inktomi. Update Fulcrum URL and add hummingbird to intranets page. Add robots-books link to robots txt page. Add WebTechniques article to overviews page. Add www2002 to conferences page. Add acme spider to robots code page. IT-director articles to classifiers. Add doctorow article to metadata. Add article to index server page. JHLsearch has been discontinued. * Add Eurecom to multimedia page. Twirlix discontinued. * Update metasearch page with ZNG and more listings. NavZone test on usability page. Add Fraser article to IA page. Add new IR glossary links on glossary page. Add IRTools to cross-language IR page.
10/15	Add Everyfind page. * Add Orangevalley page.* Very minor updates to iPhrase, Inktomi, and Mondo pages. Prices updated on FreeFind. Add SURL to UI page. Add DMOZ to visualization page. Add article to verity & Muscat page. Add Word Wranglers article to classifiers page. Add MohoClassifier to classifiers-tools. Note on news page that eoExchange is closing shop, remove from classifiers page.
10/12	RSS file update, syndic8, etc. Morgan article on Open Source Indexers.
10/11	Fixing bad links. BUS and XRS search engines discontinued. *
10/10	Fixing bad links.
10/09	Bad links fixed. Add XDisect to XML resources page. * New Zoom page. * Minor updates to FreeFind. Updates to Alkaline. New Elise page. * New consultants page. * Mod date checking note in robots checklist page. Added Morville article etc. to classification page, which has more umph now. * Added Feldman article to metadata page.
10/08	New empolis orenge page. New educesoft page. * Update SSServer, unix and languages. Update MondoSearch page.
10/05	Update FAST search page. Update mnoGoSearch to 3.2. * New DMP Scout page. * Add Breadth-first paper to robots index page. Add Danny's summaries and TREC comparison paper to info-retrieval page. * Add Nielsen extract to usability page, also affiliate link for book. Update Domino Search page, add to metasearch. Add RoboGen to robots.txt page.
10/04	Add tomaytoes article to Intranets page. Discussion & netnews links to MS Index Server page. Inktomi article & award note. Start Zoom, add elan to pdf Add Nielsen May article to overviews and UI page, also link to usability.gov Update & check Harvest page. Minor changes here & there.
10/03	Add DOE article to metasearch page. Update PDFWebSearch page. Add article to htdig page. Minor updates to info architecture page. Add nice articles, LexTek to classifiers page. Add TopicalNet to classifiers-tools page.
10/02	Change Trident to Noviforum and add features list. Add Add 360 powered and pointera to peer to peer report page. Add MySQL link & database links to db vs. text search page. Add About.com link to Perl tools page. Add article to verity page. Update conferences page. Add fundamentals article to overviews. Add KM article to classifiers-tools, EasyAsk and fulcrum pages. Add topic maps to metadata page. Add IBM Intelligent Miner for Text, Nathra and ebhath Arabic search engines. * Update languages in dtSearch (including Arabic). Add Java article to robots code page. Update classifiers-tools page with IMT, Quiver, eoExchange, Applied Semantics and Inxight.* Update Inktomi page with good article. Add excellent Marti Hearst article to IR page. * Add FreezerSearch to metasearch page. Add corporate yahoo to intranets page. Add giga report to Excalibur page.
10/01	Upload long web2001 presentation and link from slides index and consulting. Update consulting pages. Cleaning up orphan files Add gif for open-source to tools alpha listing. Move unused images to new unused folder Delete a bunch of unused graphic files from info/slides/examples/images Move some unused examples to research examples from slides IA folder Delete a bunch more unused files from all folders Added Perl search engine F3DSearch. Minor update on classifiers-tools page.
09/26	Add new articles to overviews, e-commerce, intranets and news, also Autonomy, Verity, AltaVista, iPhrase and Muscat. Update conferences pages. Add ribbon gif and link to red cross to about us and home page.
09/25	Add Open Source listing page. Change Omsee to Xapian. Removing "new" gifs from pages. Starting the FAQ page.
08/15	Update PicoSearch page with new features.
08/13	Survey results #4 Index Server CodeRed worm note.
08/10	Minor updates in Albert, FusionBot, DolphinSearch, SearchEngine Site Search (great pricing), MondoSearch (big update). Add watchfire to metadata page. New SearchExpress and Atomica pages. Fixed a bunch of bad external links.
08/09	Update IndexMySite4Free page, name all over site, update remote report info. Remove Searchbutton from remote report & directory pages. Minor update to EasyAsk. Added major Multimedia Search report Fixed Background index page. Update to PLS page. New QueryServer Metasearch. New Visual Net page.
08/07	Add OpenFTS search engine. Update Recommind link. Update Atomz. Add Amberfish search engine. Update Isearch. Add Northern Light for search engine and EIP. Update Google. Working on changes to Open Text Livelink, BRS/Search and InQuery. Deprecated tools/dataware.html and turned it into a redirect page. Minor updates to mnoGoSearch page. Update robots page with dynamic URL link.
08/07	Major updates to Intranet Search page (incorporate EIP info). Minor updates to Knowledge Management page.
06/28	Update Peer to Peer page, add JXTA Search page Fix OmSearch links and references. Update conferences pages. Add Windex page. Update mnoGoSearch. Update Mac listing page with OS X ports. Update Inktomi Search page. Add link to XML Query WG.
06/27	MondoSoft acquires Searchbutton Inktomi and Quiver integration, updated classifier tools page with Quiver and H5 and Autonomy. Official page for Autonomy Search. New site for robots.txt information.
06/26	New Product: 80-20 Discovery. New product: LikeIt New product: XML Query Engine, with related updates to XML Resources page. XQuery Intro link on XML Search page. Update SWISH-E page.
06/18	AltaVista Enterprise news. Minor updates to seekit. Minor updates to re.search suite. Minor updates to albert. FizzyLabs closed.
06/05	Update Atomz pricing. Update ISYS page. New product: Recommind MindServer 5/16 Add anchors test pages.
05/04	OmSearch Changes New MP3 Search report, test files.
05/03	Update Glossary, including Semantic Web definition of ontology. Update Conferences pages. Mercado updates to database search page. Minor updates to commerce search page. Create new meta search engines page.
04/26	Remove all links to "background" directory, which is an alias to "info" Add more links to robots testbed directory, in hopes that Google will crawl it.
04/18	update Commerce Search page. Update nexTrieve page and search examples page. Update news page.
04/05	add web elements article to UI page and news page.
04/04	add AltaVista seminar to AV page and news page. Add Web2001 conference. Update Inktomi Search Software, mnoGoSearch, Alkaline, FusionBot, HomePageSearchEngine fix EasyAsk info update OmSearch and Muscat info.
04/03	update dtSearch. Add Internet Week article to Overviews.
04/02	add Namazu.
03/30	add SharePoint (Microsoft Tahoe). update Fulcrum page. Add RSS tags to the News page and use blogify to make an RSS feed. Add Squish RDF search engine to metadata page and news page.
03/29	add PWC study to surveys, news and home page. Remove"new" gifs from older items. Finish fixing title tags for consistency. Add LexiQuest page. Add boston.internet.com article to EasyAsk page. Add marthastewart.com link to Google page. Update conferences page.
03/28	fix title tags to give most important information first. Fix typos on HomePageSearchEngine page.
03/27	Fix some typos. Add redirects for tools/win.html and tools/windows.html.
03/22	Make listing page for CD/DVD tools. Remove year 2000 items from current news page. Update see also links for tools listing pages.
03/21	Add link to db search page to info page. Add p2p / InfraSearch item to news page. Minor rewording of index page directory.
03/20	Add meta description to PDF page.
03/16	Fix bad outgoing links. Futz with folder names. New ways to support the site financially.
03/14	Remove more links and references to Infoseek and Ultraseek. Update MondoSearch
03/13	Add description to nofollow test page. Remove discontinued product links from unix & win listings. Fix links for ASPSeek and Sharewire.
03/01	Add EasyAsk report, link in database-search and classification tools pages. Add NYT article to overviews, EasyAsk, Mercado pages. Update XML Searching Resources page. Update News page.
02/27	Add ASPSeek link to news and home page. Add survey info to surveys page.
02/23	Fix bad links to zdnet Add XRS page for XML search engine based on BUS.
02/20	Update AltaVista pricing. Fixed bad links. Add "Background" link to info. Remove "related" directory and moved everything into info. Update slides directory. Add HomePageSearchEngine
02/19	Change "consulting" link to "about us" Update almost every page to use Dreamweaver library navigation banners. Update search test pages to include an RTest number for both Good and Problem test pages. iHound is no longer developed or supported Inference is now part of eGain
02/18	Add Lucene page. Add Darwin SET page Update Atomz page. Update robots code page and Intelliseek page with Intelliseek search bot presentation summary.
02/16	Add Intelliseek ESS page. Add ReachCast ReachSite page. Add Sandy Bay white paper summary. Add Alexa study to UI, News and Index pages. Minor updates to ASPSeek page, Albert page, example link on FluffySearch page.
02/15	Add ASPSeek product page. Minor new links on seo and robots pages. Add DarWin Set portal search & classification code library. Update NextPage Search and Folio SiteDirector (discontinued). Update netnews page. Update Atomz and FreeFind pages. Add Spiderline remote search service. Fix link to WebReview article in various tools pages. Update Isys page.
02/14	Add Vivisimo entry in Classification Tools page Add ZNOW page and entry in Classification Tools page. Add iPhrase toolkit, update listing pages. Update Copernic info on web-wide search page. Add Information Foraging Theory to UI page. Misc. new conferences. Add BotSpot newsletter link to the Robots code page. Make a special NLP-IR page and update Related table of contents page. Make a special Cross-Language IR page and added CLEF to the Conferences page. Minor update to AltaVista page, XYZFind page.
02/13	Add ic-find page. Update Conferences page. Add Hearst and Fitts's Law articles to Usability page. Add e-commerce search page, add Nielsen article to it and overviews. Update Muscat page.
02/12	Add NQL page.
02/07	Add NQL to Robot code page.
02/06	Clean up robots-txt page, add robots-books page, update main robots page. Remove "new" icons from last update.

For earlier changes to the site, see the 2000 Change List, 1999 Change List and the 1998 Change List