1. Identify a Specialized Search Engine/Subject Directory from Module 2 of Lesson 4 that relates to your topic. Search for information on your topic. Discuss the type of information you found. Be specific.
Answer:
Searched the Bloogz for information on Da Vinci Code and found 635 results and abstracts that contained useful information. I choose the The da vinci code topped a poll because it appeared to be especially useful as it dealt with the comments and issues surrounding Da Vinci Code. It appeared to discuss the comments of the people regarding to the Da Vinci Code, a greatmind sharing of knowledge about the Da Vinci Code, and other related topics to it.
2. Select a Subject Directory from the Invisible Web, Module 1 of Lesson 4. Search for information on your topic. Describe the search and the results retrieved. Be specific.
Answer:
Searched Infomine for information on Da Vinci Code and found 3 Web sites. But I choose the website titled, Paw Paw District Library . The URL for the site is: http://www.pawpaw.lib.mi.us/This site is like a library just like its title, it retrieved different kinds of books including the topic I have searched, and also other useful books for the end-users. I simply described it as a library in computer.
3. Using Yahoo!, find 2 Web sites on your topic. Provide the exact path through the hierarchical directory that you took. Also, list the URL of the 2 Web sites and provide a brief explanation of each site.
Answer:
The path I took for Da Vinci Code contradicts Christianity was: The Da Vinci Code - the book, the movie, the deception and Da Vinci Code Truth – The Manuscript. One that seemed helpful was entitled: The Da Vinci Code - the book, the movie, the deception. The URL for the site is: www.about-jesus.org/davincicode.htm - 34k - Cached - More from this site, The Da Vinci Code presents a theory that Christianity is a lie and that the New Testament of the Bible is a forgery. It discuss some of the pages related to the book of Dan Brown "The Da Vinci Code".
And also the Da Vinci Code Truth – The Manuscript. The URL for the site is: www.allaboutgod.com/da-vinci-code-truth.htm - 36k - Cached - More from this site, it tries to revealed the truth about the Da Vinci Code, questioning others if they think that it was true. And also some other information related to the topic.
4. Using either AltaVista or HotBot, locate one audio and one video file on your topic. Include the exact search statement used to locate the sites. Be specific.
Answer:
Audio File:
File Name Dr_Darrell_Bock-Breaking_the_DaVinci_Code-2005-06-13-1600-C.mp3
File Info mp3 • 01:24:00 sec
Page URL http://av.rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5W.q.8pFWAgAKndxCqMX;_ylu=X3oDMTBvM25obDdyBHBndANhdl9tcDNfcmVzdWx0BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=13640afrf/EXP=1171017002/**http://www.bethinking.org/resource.php?ID=211&Media=Audio&MediaType=DownloadMore info Open in new window
Video File: http://video.google.com/url?vidurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D9040790170422542543&docid=9040790170422542543&ev=v&esrc=gvpl&usg=AL29H22SnwmVM0gHIcvlgtUZt1XiHzirUA
I used the keyword "Da Vinci Code"
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Activity #3 in ITE 5
1. Using Google, devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses both phrase searching and the Boolean AND. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
Answer:
"Da VInci Code" contradict "Christianity" search statement found 90,100 on February 01, 2007
2. Using Google, devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses a title field search in addition to a domain search. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
Answer:
intitle:"Da Vinci Code" site:org found 3,320,000 websites on February 01, 2007
3. Did one search retrieve more relevant information than the other? If so, why? (1 point)
Answer:
Yes, because it displays more information than the other one; in terms of photos, details, comments, and videos. It directly goes to the topic that I've search and displays respectively the information that I wanted.
4. Did the searches retrieve other than HTML Web sites? i.e., Word or pdf documents? (1 point)
Answer:None
5. Which key terms from your thesis statement retrieved the most relevant information? (1 point)
Answer: In my own opinion, I choosed the search strategy using in a question form and also in a phrase form because it displays the information I'd expected to appear and displays more relevant results from the other.
6. Discuss the relative merits of phrase searching, Boolean AND searching and field searching. (1 point)
Answer:The advantage of using phrase searching is that the results are related to the phrase form present in the website. The advantage of boolean is that it minimizes the topic to be searched using only the keywords and its operators such +, -, /. The advantage of field searching is that it displays broader abd complex information.
Answer:
"Da VInci Code" contradict "Christianity" search statement found 90,100 on February 01, 2007
2. Using Google, devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses a title field search in addition to a domain search. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
Answer:
intitle:"Da Vinci Code" site:org found 3,320,000 websites on February 01, 2007
3. Did one search retrieve more relevant information than the other? If so, why? (1 point)
Answer:
Yes, because it displays more information than the other one; in terms of photos, details, comments, and videos. It directly goes to the topic that I've search and displays respectively the information that I wanted.
4. Did the searches retrieve other than HTML Web sites? i.e., Word or pdf documents? (1 point)
Answer:None
5. Which key terms from your thesis statement retrieved the most relevant information? (1 point)
Answer: In my own opinion, I choosed the search strategy using in a question form and also in a phrase form because it displays the information I'd expected to appear and displays more relevant results from the other.
6. Discuss the relative merits of phrase searching, Boolean AND searching and field searching. (1 point)
Answer:The advantage of using phrase searching is that the results are related to the phrase form present in the website. The advantage of boolean is that it minimizes the topic to be searched using only the keywords and its operators such +, -, /. The advantage of field searching is that it displays broader abd complex information.
7. Select one of the following Meta Search Engines. Devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses both phrase searching and the Boolean AND. Be specific, i.e., list the Meta Search Engine used, the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
Answer:
Metacrawler, "Da Vinci Code" contradict "Christianity" retrieved 76 Web sites on February 01, 2007.
8. Were some of the same sites retrieved by Google and the Meta Search Engine? (1 point)
Answer: Yes, some of the results of metacrawler and google have in common but not all.
9. What differences did you notice between the results of this search and the results of the Google searches? (1 point)
Answer:The result of google displays more websites than the metacrawler. Metacrawler display the website which is relevant and exclude those very far from the topic searched.
10. What impact might this have on the validity of the search results? (1 point)
Answer: Its validity of searching displays more relatively near from the topic , relevant results, and rated on how many times the website are mostly used.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Metacrawler as a Meta-search Engine
Metacrawler is a meta-search engine that is easy to use in terms of logic forms; phrases, sentence, question form, etc. It has nice design; simple, good combination of color, its color doesn’t irritate my eyes. But its just a plain page without advertisement or attractive photos; I think they can still improve their homepage by making some advertisements, attractive photos, etc.
As a meta-search engine; one of its good advantages is that it goes straight to the point of the topic, balances the strengths and weaknesses of the several engines that it utilizes, it also serves as a tool for comparison
of diverse search services, its not case sensitive, and user’s friendly. But I think one of its disadvantages is that it somewhat questions the user if we proceed to the results of research topic because using our common sense, if we search for something we wanted to have a result for it, why still questioned us. That’s all…!
As a meta-search engine; one of its good advantages is that it goes straight to the point of the topic, balances the strengths and weaknesses of the several engines that it utilizes, it also serves as a tool for comparison
of diverse search services, its not case sensitive, and user’s friendly. But I think one of its disadvantages is that it somewhat questions the user if we proceed to the results of research topic because using our common sense, if we search for something we wanted to have a result for it, why still questioned us. That’s all…!
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Playmaker's Project in ITE 5
Design Ease of Use ContentScope Customer Service Total
Search Engines:
Yahoo! 4 3 5 4 16
Google 3 5 5 2 15
Hotbot 1 5 2 5 13
Design:
As it relates to design Yahoo! was at the forefront of this category, Yahoo had a nice colorful design with blue font and other colorful accents all over the page. The also had the great advertisements, and photos from the major news stories of the day. Google had a great logo but a very plain page. I feel that they could have done more with the space. Hotbot was just horrible with bland colors and just an overall boring and dull homepage.
Ease of Use:
Although Yahoo had a great homepage design it throws so many different links at you at once it is kind of overbearing. Though all of the links were running quickly and efficiently, things were a little cluttered. Google was straight to the point offering everything that you need in a nice and neat fashion. Hotbot did not have much but what they did offer was presented as user friendly as possible.
Content Scope:
Searching Yahoo is a goldmine, in some cases it offered up to 201,000,000 links for my search. It gave me exactly what I was looking for in most cases, and in my opinion this is the best search engine on the net. Google offers a ton of information for its searches, not as much as Yahoo, but it is more that capable of getting the job done. If Yahoo is number one Google is definitely number two. Hotbot was ok, but just did not stack up to the competition, it did give a good number of links, but with search engines like Google and Yahoo out there Hotbot is pretty much obsolete.
Customer Service:
Yahoo had great detail concerning there customer service, it provided privacy policies, Help desk, terms of service and suggestions. The only problem to me was the location which was al the way at the bottom of the page. Google had pretty ok customer service; it offered help, its privacy policy, and terms and conditions. However, these things were not provided of the homepage, and had to be searched for. Hotbot had great customer service offering everything that Yahoo had to offer but in a better location right there for you on the homepage in plain site right under the search bar.
Conclusion:
We found that Yahoo.com was the best overall search engine. Though they all have their strengths and weakness, and can probably suit the searchers needs well, Yahoo seem to go above and beyond the others to make the best user friendly environment possible.
Search Engines:
Yahoo! 4 3 5 4 16
Google 3 5 5 2 15
Hotbot 1 5 2 5 13
Design:
As it relates to design Yahoo! was at the forefront of this category, Yahoo had a nice colorful design with blue font and other colorful accents all over the page. The also had the great advertisements, and photos from the major news stories of the day. Google had a great logo but a very plain page. I feel that they could have done more with the space. Hotbot was just horrible with bland colors and just an overall boring and dull homepage.
Ease of Use:
Although Yahoo had a great homepage design it throws so many different links at you at once it is kind of overbearing. Though all of the links were running quickly and efficiently, things were a little cluttered. Google was straight to the point offering everything that you need in a nice and neat fashion. Hotbot did not have much but what they did offer was presented as user friendly as possible.
Content Scope:
Searching Yahoo is a goldmine, in some cases it offered up to 201,000,000 links for my search. It gave me exactly what I was looking for in most cases, and in my opinion this is the best search engine on the net. Google offers a ton of information for its searches, not as much as Yahoo, but it is more that capable of getting the job done. If Yahoo is number one Google is definitely number two. Hotbot was ok, but just did not stack up to the competition, it did give a good number of links, but with search engines like Google and Yahoo out there Hotbot is pretty much obsolete.
Customer Service:
Yahoo had great detail concerning there customer service, it provided privacy policies, Help desk, terms of service and suggestions. The only problem to me was the location which was al the way at the bottom of the page. Google had pretty ok customer service; it offered help, its privacy policy, and terms and conditions. However, these things were not provided of the homepage, and had to be searched for. Hotbot had great customer service offering everything that Yahoo had to offer but in a better location right there for you on the homepage in plain site right under the search bar.
Conclusion:
We found that Yahoo.com was the best overall search engine. Though they all have their strengths and weakness, and can probably suit the searchers needs well, Yahoo seem to go above and beyond the others to make the best user friendly environment possible.
Activity 2 in ITE 5
1. Name two possible side effects of Prozac -- or any other medication?
Answer:
a.Gastrointestinal - Nausea, Disturbances of appetite, Diarrhea
b.Respiratory - Bronchitis, Rhinitis (inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes), Yawning
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com
2. What is the most popular sport in Egypt?
Answer:
SOCCER is the most popular sports in Egypt.
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com
3. What is the weather forcast today for Houston, Texas?
Answer:
Current conditions as of 11:53 pm CST
Light Rain
Feels Like: 45°
Barometer: 30.39 in and steady
Humidity: 86%
Visibility: 8 mi
Dewpoint: 41°
Wind: N 9 mph
Sunrise: 7:17 am
Sunset: 5:47 pm
Search Engine:
http://www.yahoo.com
4. What is President's George Bush E-Mail Address?
Answer:
president@whitehouse.gov
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com
5. What is one medication used for the treatment of Asthma?
Answer:
Oralmat Treatments
Search Engine:
http://www.dogpile.com
6. How did the great Chicago fire start:
Answer:
It indeed start at the barn of Mr. & Mrs. Patrick and Catherine O'Leary on Sunday evening, October 8, 1971
Search Engine:
http://www.findspot.com
7. What is the title of a story written by Andrei Codrescu?
Answer:
THE BLOOD COUNTESS: A NOVEL
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com.com
8. Where can you join an association of rabbit breeders?
Answer:
ARBA: American Rabbit Breeders Association
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com
9. Who was the highes paid athlete in the year 2000 and how much did he or she make?
Answer:
Formula One race car driver Michael Schumacher of Germany was named the world's highest paid athlete of 2000 by Forbes Magazine in March 2001.
According the magazine, the four-time F1 champion made $59 million in winnings and endorsements—$6 million more than golfer Tiger Woods
Search Engine:
http://www.dogpile.com
10. Where can you purchase a Durian?
Answer:
Cape Trib Exotic Fruit Farm
Search Engine:
http://www.dogpile.com/
Answer:
a.Gastrointestinal - Nausea, Disturbances of appetite, Diarrhea
b.Respiratory - Bronchitis, Rhinitis (inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes), Yawning
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com
2. What is the most popular sport in Egypt?
Answer:
SOCCER is the most popular sports in Egypt.
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com
3. What is the weather forcast today for Houston, Texas?
Answer:
Current conditions as of 11:53 pm CST
Light Rain
Feels Like: 45°
Barometer: 30.39 in and steady
Humidity: 86%
Visibility: 8 mi
Dewpoint: 41°
Wind: N 9 mph
Sunrise: 7:17 am
Sunset: 5:47 pm
Search Engine:
http://www.yahoo.com
4. What is President's George Bush E-Mail Address?
Answer:
president@whitehouse.gov
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com
5. What is one medication used for the treatment of Asthma?
Answer:
Oralmat Treatments
Search Engine:
http://www.dogpile.com
6. How did the great Chicago fire start:
Answer:
It indeed start at the barn of Mr. & Mrs. Patrick and Catherine O'Leary on Sunday evening, October 8, 1971
Search Engine:
http://www.findspot.com
7. What is the title of a story written by Andrei Codrescu?
Answer:
THE BLOOD COUNTESS: A NOVEL
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com.com
8. Where can you join an association of rabbit breeders?
Answer:
ARBA: American Rabbit Breeders Association
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com
9. Who was the highes paid athlete in the year 2000 and how much did he or she make?
Answer:
Formula One race car driver Michael Schumacher of Germany was named the world's highest paid athlete of 2000 by Forbes Magazine in March 2001.
According the magazine, the four-time F1 champion made $59 million in winnings and endorsements—$6 million more than golfer Tiger Woods
Search Engine:
http://www.dogpile.com
10. Where can you purchase a Durian?
Answer:
Cape Trib Exotic Fruit Farm
Search Engine:
http://www.dogpile.com/
Thursday, January 11, 2007
The History of Some Search Engines
Yahoo’s History
Yahoo has been founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers. Later on, Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors. Realizing their new company had the potential to grow quickly, Jerry and David began to shop for a management team. They hired Tim Koogle, a veteran of Motorola and an alumnus of the Stanford engineering department, as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallett, founder of Novell's WordPerfect consumer division, as chief operating officer. They secured a second round of funding in Fall 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees. And as the years go by, Yahoo became more popular and still in progress!
Google’s History
Google began as a research project in January 1996 by Larry Page, a Ph.D. student at Stanford.[1] Larry was soon joined in his research project by Sergey Brin a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student and close friend. Larry Page hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better results than existing techniques (existing search engines at the time essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page).[2] It was originally nicknamed, "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate a site's importance.[3] A small search engine called RankDex was already exploring a similar strategy.Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant Web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. Originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The name Google is a play on the term googol, which is the large number 10100. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. Google received a big break in 1999 when one of the most popular search engines, AltaVista, relaunched itself as a user web entry point, or portal. This unexpected change alienated part of AltaVista's user base. Google quickly outgrew its University Avenue home. The company settled into a complex of buildings, called the Googleplex in Mountain View in 1999. Silicon Graphics leased these buildings to Google. And Google became popular!
Lycos’ History
Lycos came online in 1994 as a search engine, and has since acquired HotBot, Raging Bull, Tripod, Wired, as well as others.. Lycos has changed from a search engine to more of a Yahoo! style directory. The Lycos.com portal includes a news, shopping, search, directory, personalized, and topics section, just as Yahoo! does. It attempts to offer it's users enough content and options to keep them at the site for extended periods of time. Enough about the portal, let's get to the search results. There have been changes to the way Lycos runs it search engine lately. The web site submission and payment options have changed as well, but we will discuss that later in the article. Lycos search results resemble many that we have looked at in the past. The current results that are displayed is dependant upon the search that is performed, just as with the past portals, but you can expect to see Overture results, Lycos's own paid results, and results from Fast/AllTheWeb.com. It became one of the popular search engines today!
Excite’s History
Ben Lutch and Martin Reinfried. The founders were all students in computer science (except for Kraus, who was a political science major) at Stanford University. In July 1994 International Data Group paid $100,000 to the team to develop an online service.In January 1995 Vinod Khosla, (also a former student of Stanford) a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, arranged $250,000 first round backing with $1.5 million in ten months. In addition Geoff Yang, of Institutional Venture Partners, brought in $1.5 million in financing. It took another year, until December 1995, to launch Excite on the Web.In January 1996 George Bell joined Excite as their Chief Executive Officer. Later that year the company bought two search engines, Magellan and WebCrawler, and went public on April 4, 1996 with an initial offering of two million shares priced at $8.50; just seven days before Yahoo!'s initial public offering on April 11, 1996, placing 2.6 million shares of common stock at $13.50 per share. It gained exclusive distribution agreements with companies such as Netscape, Microsoft, and Apple Computer. Days moves on, it excites us more!
Altavista’s History
AltaVista, which means "a view from above," was inspired by the creation of big ideas from a team of experts with a fascination for keeping track of information. During the spring of 1995, scientists at Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab in Palo Alto, CA, devised a way to store every word of every HTML page on the Internet in a fast, searchable index. This led to AltaVista's development of the first searchable, full-text database on the World Wide Web. Other notable AltaVista inventions include the first-ever multi-lingual search capability on the Internet and the first search technology to support Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. We are proud of Babel Fish, the Web's first Internet machine translation service that can translate words, phrases or entire Web sites to and from English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Russian. Later on, still in improving!
Hotbot’s History
Another powerful search engine had its genesis in yet another university research project. Eric Brewer and assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Paul Gauthier, a computer science graduate student working on a computer science PhD, started work demonstrating that a cluster of small computers could achieve the same computing performance as a large supercomputer. They set about to commercialize this work and founded Inktomi (ink-to-me) Corporation in February 1996. Just three months later, they unleashed the HotBot search engine and quickly licensed it to one of the hottest web sites around, Wired Magazine’s Hotwired.com.Hotbot proved itself to be one of the most powerful search engines of its day, with a spider capable of indexing 10 million pages a day. This meant HotBot not only had the most up to date list of available new sites and pages, but was capable of re-indexing all previously indexed pages to ensure they were all up to date as well
Go's History
Go.com historically provided a good range of search capabilities, but outsourced the work to another search engine.
Overture was the search engine that originally powered Go.com, and it has used other search engines including Yahoo.
Yahoo has been founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers. Later on, Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors. Realizing their new company had the potential to grow quickly, Jerry and David began to shop for a management team. They hired Tim Koogle, a veteran of Motorola and an alumnus of the Stanford engineering department, as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallett, founder of Novell's WordPerfect consumer division, as chief operating officer. They secured a second round of funding in Fall 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees. And as the years go by, Yahoo became more popular and still in progress!
Google’s History
Google began as a research project in January 1996 by Larry Page, a Ph.D. student at Stanford.[1] Larry was soon joined in his research project by Sergey Brin a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student and close friend. Larry Page hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better results than existing techniques (existing search engines at the time essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page).[2] It was originally nicknamed, "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate a site's importance.[3] A small search engine called RankDex was already exploring a similar strategy.Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant Web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. Originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The name Google is a play on the term googol, which is the large number 10100. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. Google received a big break in 1999 when one of the most popular search engines, AltaVista, relaunched itself as a user web entry point, or portal. This unexpected change alienated part of AltaVista's user base. Google quickly outgrew its University Avenue home. The company settled into a complex of buildings, called the Googleplex in Mountain View in 1999. Silicon Graphics leased these buildings to Google. And Google became popular!
Lycos’ History
Lycos came online in 1994 as a search engine, and has since acquired HotBot, Raging Bull, Tripod, Wired, as well as others.. Lycos has changed from a search engine to more of a Yahoo! style directory. The Lycos.com portal includes a news, shopping, search, directory, personalized, and topics section, just as Yahoo! does. It attempts to offer it's users enough content and options to keep them at the site for extended periods of time. Enough about the portal, let's get to the search results. There have been changes to the way Lycos runs it search engine lately. The web site submission and payment options have changed as well, but we will discuss that later in the article. Lycos search results resemble many that we have looked at in the past. The current results that are displayed is dependant upon the search that is performed, just as with the past portals, but you can expect to see Overture results, Lycos's own paid results, and results from Fast/AllTheWeb.com. It became one of the popular search engines today!
Excite’s History
Ben Lutch and Martin Reinfried. The founders were all students in computer science (except for Kraus, who was a political science major) at Stanford University. In July 1994 International Data Group paid $100,000 to the team to develop an online service.In January 1995 Vinod Khosla, (also a former student of Stanford) a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, arranged $250,000 first round backing with $1.5 million in ten months. In addition Geoff Yang, of Institutional Venture Partners, brought in $1.5 million in financing. It took another year, until December 1995, to launch Excite on the Web.In January 1996 George Bell joined Excite as their Chief Executive Officer. Later that year the company bought two search engines, Magellan and WebCrawler, and went public on April 4, 1996 with an initial offering of two million shares priced at $8.50; just seven days before Yahoo!'s initial public offering on April 11, 1996, placing 2.6 million shares of common stock at $13.50 per share. It gained exclusive distribution agreements with companies such as Netscape, Microsoft, and Apple Computer. Days moves on, it excites us more!
Altavista’s History
AltaVista, which means "a view from above," was inspired by the creation of big ideas from a team of experts with a fascination for keeping track of information. During the spring of 1995, scientists at Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab in Palo Alto, CA, devised a way to store every word of every HTML page on the Internet in a fast, searchable index. This led to AltaVista's development of the first searchable, full-text database on the World Wide Web. Other notable AltaVista inventions include the first-ever multi-lingual search capability on the Internet and the first search technology to support Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. We are proud of Babel Fish, the Web's first Internet machine translation service that can translate words, phrases or entire Web sites to and from English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Russian. Later on, still in improving!
Hotbot’s History
Another powerful search engine had its genesis in yet another university research project. Eric Brewer and assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Paul Gauthier, a computer science graduate student working on a computer science PhD, started work demonstrating that a cluster of small computers could achieve the same computing performance as a large supercomputer. They set about to commercialize this work and founded Inktomi (ink-to-me) Corporation in February 1996. Just three months later, they unleashed the HotBot search engine and quickly licensed it to one of the hottest web sites around, Wired Magazine’s Hotwired.com.Hotbot proved itself to be one of the most powerful search engines of its day, with a spider capable of indexing 10 million pages a day. This meant HotBot not only had the most up to date list of available new sites and pages, but was capable of re-indexing all previously indexed pages to ensure they were all up to date as well
Go's History
Go.com historically provided a good range of search capabilities, but outsourced the work to another search engine.
Overture was the search engine that originally powered Go.com, and it has used other search engines including Yahoo.
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