Search Engine Milestones for October 2003
Notable news and announcements from the web search world during the past month.
Notable news and announcements from the web search world during the past month.
Notable news and announcements from the web search world during the past month. Announcements without links to online versions were received via email.
Warning: The links and descriptions below are from official press releases, and may contain marketing hyperbole, claims or euphemisms not necessarily endorsed by Search Engine Watch.
October 1
Fast To Power Search Capabilities For Allegis Group
Fast Search & Transfer today announced Allegis Group is deploying FAST Data Search to power the search capabilities on the next generation of Thingamajob.com, its online recruitment site.
October 6
Dogpile Search Engine Introduces New Toolbar Features
Dogpile announced the launch of an updated version of the Dogpile Search Toolbar with new features including a scrolling news ticker with headlines from ABCNEWS.com, a pop-up ad blocker and Cursor search that lets users a search on a word or phrase within any Web page by simply highlighting it and right-clicking their mouse.
October 7
America Online and Google Announce Expanded Alliance as AOL Enhances Search Capabilities
The companies have extended their marketing agreement, enabling Google to continue providing AOL and CompuServe members and users of AOL.COM and Netscape its targeted paid search listings product. America Online also announced a variety of improved search capabilities.
LookSmart Launches Bid-for-Placement Search Product
The new product enables advertisers to target their campaigns by bidding for the terms that are core to their business. The Company also announced that it is distributing Sponsored Listings across a network of partners that includes CNET, Road Runner, InfoSpace, LookSmart.com, Cox Internet, Mamma.com and Alltel.
Pricegrabber’s Announces New “Shopping List” Feature
PriceGrabber’s Shopping List takes a list of items and calculates the best price available, whether that be from a single merchant or from multiple merchants.
October 13
Go Toast Offers Holiday Shopping Promotion for Online Advertisers
The promotion package supports Go Toast subscribers’ online holiday marketing programs with a free subscription to its Intellidex and MasterList services until December 31, 2003, and access to the major online shopping sites. The company also announced the addition of a Mass Update Tool to its BidManager online advertising keyword bidding system.
October 14
Axandra.com Updates Internet Business Promoter Program
The new program combines seven web site promotion tools in one software program. It covers all aspects of ethical search engine optimization and web site promotion.
Metrobot Llc Releases Map Based Search Engine & City Guide
Metrobot employs a user interface that depicts a network of road segments and associated businesses listings in major U.S. cities. The roads are displayed in a straightened and aligned manner with businesses appearing on either side.
xrefer Launches Research Mapper
The Research Mapper is a visual map that displays how search terms and topics in xreferplus are interconnected. A public version of the Mapper is available at www.xrefer.com/research.
October 15
Google Alert Enhances Automated Search Service
Google Alert’s free service tracks anything on the web by automatically running daily Google searches and sending email alerts when new results appear. The new release adds features for integrating search results into web pages and desktops.
October 16
Yahoo Introduces Smartsort Technology: Personalized Product Recommendation Tool
SmartSort helps narrow the search for a specific product by taking a broad category like digital cameras, which has hundreds of choices, and asking a user to rank criteria (i.e. price, brand, optical zoom) according to importance. SmartSort then instantly recommends the top ten models based on the selected criteria.
October 17
Overture and Microsoft Extend Search Distribution Relationship in the U.S. and UK
Under the terms of the new deal, the companies have entered into a paid placement search agreement to provide Overture search results to U.S. and UK users of MSN Search. The agreement provides for the companies to potentially expand into additional countries.
October 20
MetaCrawler Search Engine Launches Improved Interface and New Features
MetaCrawler announced the introduction of a streamlined user interface and several new features, including “Refine your Results”, a browser-based search toolbar, integrated people and business finder and the ability to sort results by the engine or by relevance.
Nordstrom to Deploy FAST Data Search
Fast Search & Transfer announced that Nordstrom, Inc. has signed an agreement to deploy FAST Data Search to power the search capabilities of its e-commerce site.
October 29
KnowledgeStorm Opens Online Research Center
KnowledgeStorm, a search site for IT product, service, reseller and hardware information, today launched its Online Research Center, offering white papers, webinars and case studies for technology buyers.
October 30
Espotting Media Announces New Growth Figures
Espotting’s advertiser base is now 20,000 in Q3 2003, up from a previously quoted advertiser figure of 16,000, and volume base of queries has grown to 1 billion in September 2003, up from a previously quoted figure of 850m per month.
NOTE: Article links often change. In case of a bad link, use the publication’s search facility, which most have, and search for the headline.