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Changes on SearchTools.com in 2002

Date

Changes

12/18
  • change inktomi search to ultraseek, yikes.
  • Add chi workshop.
12/17
  • put up WQ study info, index, news rss.
12/11
  • Update dtSearch page, news
  • Update conferences pages.
  • Update KM page with Gilbane.
  • Whitney on UI page, checking with her now.
  • Add Engenium, UKP
  • Update SearchKey page, news.
  • Add Noreen to consultants list.
  • Add Infonortics to news page.
  • Update RSS
12/10
  • Add Gilbane reports to overviews, update metadata, Albert, classifiers, Autonomy. ¯
  • Don't forget WQ report ¯
  • Add SiteFerrett page, news, rss.
  • Add linkSearch, news, rss.
  • Add Intelliseek to news, rss.
12/09
  • Add Inxight to faceted metadata page.
  • Add TYPENGO page, listings, news.
  • Update Intelliseek.¯
  • Minor updates to HomePageSearchEngine
  • Add IMP, listings.*
  • Update Muscat/APR Smartlogik Discovery page.*
  • Update news, rss and index.
12/06
  • Extensive notes on the451 report, all over, including news and rss.
  • Add taxonomy myths link to classifiers page.
  • Minor update to youramigo.
  • Start relevance page. **
12/05
  • Update news page, index & rss.
  • Add NN and Head intranet reports.
12/04
  • Update Endeca, iPhrase, EasyAsk, Commerce Search page ¯
  • Minor Amberfish update, XML page.
  • Add Blue Angel MetaStar page & update tools pages ¯
  • Add two articles to faceted metadata.

11/22
  • Update recommind.
  • Add RiSearch.
  • Update index, news and rss.
  • Panoptic **
11/22
  • Minor updates to Alkaline & inktomi.
  • Update news, index and rss.
  • Must check starred items to make sure they go on the news page. **
  • Double stars = to finish
11/21
  • New Doclinx page
  • New microsearch page.
  • Update Fusionbot.
  • Minor update to BRS page.
11/20
  • fix link on Endeca.
  • Update TEXTML to XML & db pages.
  • Add CGISRCH.
  • Note searchengine.com service is discontinued. ¯
  • Note Ripfire bought.
  • Update tools, win, remote, java, libraries pages.
11/18
  • Add Inxight info to news, main & rss
  • Add the451 link to Inxight, overviews and classifiers (waiting for response before news) ¯
  • Finish Atomz update (news, main & rss pages)
  • Link to InfoToday analysis of Verity-Inktomi (news, main and rss pages)
11/15
  • Update Webinator & MondoSearch.
  • Add mondo survey to surveys page and fix survey link problems.
  • Start updating Atomz, iPhrase and dtSearch pages. ¯
  • Add Morville & UIE articles to UI page. *
  • Update Namo prices.
  • Update Ripfire to Plumtree and put note on news page.
  • Add RDF article to XML page.
11/14
  • Update Conferences page & put in rss feed
  • Add inktomi 5 to news page & rss.
  • Updates not done to usability, intranets & recommendations pages. ¯
11/13
  • Update Inktomi page.
  • Add Verity - inktomi buyout info to news page.
10/28
  • Update contact info on About Us page.
  • Update GoodURLs page with CF info
  • Add Inquira page
  • Add Endeca & i411 to news page
  • Add HTML::Index to perl page
  • Mark discontinued Perl search engines: FluffySearch, ODARS4Search, Site Search 2, Super Site Search, Xavatoria Indexed Search ¯
10/25
  • Update faceted metadata.
  • Add faceted classification.
  • Update classification and metadata pages.
  • Add pages for Endeca and i411.
10/01
  • Add faceted metadata page.
09/30
  • Update Google Appliance page, news and front pages, analysis index page.
  • Update metadata search page.
09/27
  • Update SWISH-E 2.2 & add to News page.
  • Fixed Survey thank-you page to point at actual current one.
09/20
  • Create new SWISH-E and SWISH++ page, use SWISH page for old reviews and links to new versions.
  • Update mnoGoSearch, Namazu, Verity, SWISH-E, tools listings, Xapian,
  • Very minor link changes to: Zebra, Webworks, WAIS, SiteDirector, NextPage, MPS, MS Index, Isearch, iPlanet, inMagic, Inktomi, ht://Dig, Glimpse, AltaVista
09/19
  • Update ASPSeek, ht://Dig
08/07
  • Add survey 5 to news & index
08/06
  • Post Survey 5
08/05
  • Fix typo on survey page
  • Update Google App page
  • Update Retrievalware page
  • Add Robotcop note
  • Fix links on MP3 search page
  • Update News page
06/28
  • Add how people search article.
  • Major revamp of Oracle search page, redirect from intermedia.
06/27
  • Add Teapot page, metadata & commerce pages.
  • Update Atomz with Promote, recommendations page.
  • Add InteractiveTools Search Engine page.
  • Add t.find page.
06/26
  • Add ActiveSearch page.
  • Update Phantom page.
  • Lemur consulting on consulting and Muscat pages.
06/25
  • Minor updates to Google appliance page.
  • Minor updates to conferences page.
  • Disallow aliases in robots.txt
06/24
  • Add ActiveSearch page.
  • Minor updates to empolis orenge
06/19
  • Change name of IndexMySite, add fee info to page, review, news page.
  • Update robots-txt page with bad examples.
  • Add bobulate taxonomy to ui page.
  • Update verity & easyask & bbdbot.
06/18
  • Add good urls page in robots (redirect from info folder).
  • Moved slides to own directory, alias from info directory.
06/17
  • Add DrawingSearcher to multimedia search page.
  • Make google.html page look nicer
  • Update google-app page & news.
06/14
  • Add new Inxight products.
  • Update overviews, classification, surveys, news pages.
  • Update partnerships: retrievalware & webware; verity & paperthin
  • Update Intelliseek ESS 3.6, add to many lists where it wasn't before
06/13
  • Add Forrester brief to overviews, google, netrics, easyask pages.
  • Update classification, classifier-tools, metadata search.
  • Update inmagic page.
06/07
  • Add YourAmigo.
  • Update Netrics (formerly LikeIt)
  • Add new article to overviews, commerce, Netrics, EasyAsk, Mercado
05/24
  • Add K2 dev update and clean up Verity page.
  • Remove old "new" gifs.
  • Add IXE.
  • Update Spiderline.
  • Added Isys the other day.
05/15
  • Add Inktomi Toolkit to main page, news page & inktomi-search page.
  • Update conferences pages.
  • Minor fixes on Amberfish & metasearch pages.
  • FreeFind: indexing password-protected sites.
  • FusionBot: additional admin and no-matches options, new example sites
04/10
  • Fixed lycos to redirect to lycos-service.
  • Updated InMagic.
  • Fixed Fulcrum redirect.
04/09
  • update PicoSearch & news blurb.
  • Update webinator.
  • Update Inktomi & news blurb.
  • Update Google Analysis.
  • Remove yahoo groups links.
03/29
  • Update RSS.
  • Add XYZFind acquisition.
  • Fixed typo in news.
  • Added new consultant.
  • New search form for Lycos.
03/28
  • Change Fulcrum to Hummingbird.
  • Add Ksearch page.
  • Put Lycos service on search page.
  • Update PDF page.
  • Add AltaVista update.
  • Add SE evolution slides to listings
  • Minor update to dioweb and retrievalware and webinator and copernic.
  • Update analysis index page.
  • Took pics out of gsa review.
03/27
  • Add Google Search Applicance v1 review.
  • Change answers to recommendations
  • Start taxonomy of search page
03/22
  • Add Lycos Service page.
  • Add WizDoc page.
  • Put in news, put news on front page and upload.
  • Update DolphinSearch page.
  • Minor update, Atomz page.
  • Clear bad links from excite page.
  • Add WideSource page.
  • Add Thunderstone to metasearch.
  • Add GuideBeam & WordMap to classifiers-tools.
  • Add OMNIDEX to db search.
  • Add InfoJukebox to metasearch
  • Add askOnce to metasearch (might need a report for this though).
  • Webinator 4!
03/20
  • Change Excalibur file name to RetrievalWare and update with version 7 info.
  • Mess with old file dates & scripting.
  • Change reviews folder name to analysis.
  • Start Alpine page, need to add to related pages.
03/19
  • Update Innerprise Enterprise search page.
  • Add X-Hive to XML resources page.
  • Update information and search tools on database search page.
  • Update conferences page.
  • Update open-source tools page.
  • Update overviews and intranets page.
  • Add boxes and arrows to IA page
  • Update mondosearch page.
03/07
  • Add dev list to lists page and news page.
  • Fix name on robots-consultants page.
02/25
  • Add Traffick to seo page.
02/15
  • Minor cleanup on database-search page.
02/14
  • Add redirect for sli search, fix link on search & metasearch pages.
  • Add server redirect for index.htm for powerpoint slides.
  • New AltaVista Desktop, also updated examples, news page.
02/11
  • Add Google Appliance page, separate out google service page, add info to news, main, metasearch, etc.
01/30
  • Update Copernic with indexer
  • Update NorthernLight & news & rss.
  • Update FusionBot with new features.
  • Added Voquette to metadata page.
  • Add AFSearch to tools-disc listing.
  • Add Saqqara to classfiers-tools & inprog content-management.
  • Add BrightPlanet to class-tools & metasearch
  • Add SiteSearch Indexer (JavaScript).
01/25
  • New eVe page and add eVision to multimedia page.
  • Add MatchPoint to metasearch and database pages.
01/24
  • New search engine and service from S.L.I.
  • Publish news & rss.
01/23
  • Add Ginny Risk to consultants page.
  • Fix bad links in about pages.
  • Update conferences pages.
  • Add ixiasoft to xml page & database page (retitled that away from database-backed).
  • Update HomepageSearchEngine
  • Add Bravo to classifiers.
  • Update askjeeves and iphrase.
01/18
  • Create 96-99 Overviews page.
  • Add Forrester and UIE reports to overviews page.
  • Minor updates to znow, askjeeves, sharepoint, inktomi, atomz.
01/17
  • Add paging study to user-interface page.
  • Update tools listings.
01/04
  • Add Answers page to info section.

01/03

  • Clean up site for new year, update news and front page.

For earlier changes to the site, see the 2001 Change List, 2000 Change List, 1999 Change List and the 1998 Change List


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