Google was the largest and the most versatile search engine on the Internet. The search engine had a robust workload and query-processing abilities. Realizing the importance of a fast, scalable search engine, Google employed linked PCs to quickly find the results of a query. This resulted in faster response times, greater scalability and lower costs. Google used PageRank10 and Hypertext-Matching Analysis11 technologies to provide fast and accurate results. Besides, it employed special software robots called Spiders that built a list of important key words found in the millions of websites on the Internet. This process of automated listing was called web crawling.
About 95% of Google’s revenue came from advertisements, primarily through its two popular offerings, AdWord and AdSense.
Yahoo– search engine
Yahoo pioneered the online commercial directory concept when it first launched the service in 1994 but did not pay much attention to search services during its initial days, preferring to source it from other parties like Open Text, Alta Vista, Inktomi and eventually, Google. Yahoo realized the importance of search engines in the late 90s when they
gained prominence and started affecting e-commerce to a level that almost a third of online ad revenues were generated through them.
Yahoo started focusing on search engine business starting October 2002, by outsourcing the service to Google. The purchase of Inktomi for $235 million in late 2002 and subsequently Overture in October 2003 (for $ 1.6 billion) made Yahoo the owner of two of the largest and the oldest of the commercial paid search services. This also gave Yahoo 100 billion new users and the capability to promote its own internal search engine through innovative advertising solutions that competed with Google’s AdWords and AdSense programs.
In February 2004, Yahoo scrapped its relations with Google and began using its own search engine instead. The Cable News Network (CNN), the leading media giant, replaced Google for Yahoo in May 2004 to provide algorithmic and paid results to its users.
gained prominence and started affecting e-commerce to a level that almost a third of online ad revenues were generated through them.
Yahoo started focusing on search engine business starting October 2002, by outsourcing the service to Google. The purchase of Inktomi for $235 million in late 2002 and subsequently Overture in October 2003 (for $ 1.6 billion) made Yahoo the owner of two of the largest and the oldest of the commercial paid search services. This also gave Yahoo 100 billion new users and the capability to promote its own internal search engine through innovative advertising solutions that competed with Google’s AdWords and AdSense programs.
In February 2004, Yahoo scrapped its relations with Google and began using its own search engine instead. The Cable News Network (CNN), the leading media giant, replaced Google for Yahoo in May 2004 to provide algorithmic and paid results to its users.
Cuil – search engine
Cuil is a brand new search engine created by former Google and IBM veterans. Cuil, an old Irish word for knowledge, was co-founded by Tom Costello, CEO; his wife, Anna Patterson, president and Russell Power, vice president of engineering.
Cuil may succeed where others have failed and give powerhouse Google a run for its money. Cuil has developed new architecture and algorithms and that its search engine has indexed 120 billion Web pages. Cuil's robot Web crawler, Twicler, supports the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive robots.txt to help small sites that are bandwidth-limited. Moreover, unlike other search engines Cuil's privacy policy states that it does not store records of users’ search activity or IP addresses.
Cuil may succeed where others have failed and give powerhouse Google a run for its money. Cuil has developed new architecture and algorithms and that its search engine has indexed 120 billion Web pages. Cuil's robot Web crawler, Twicler, supports the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive robots.txt to help small sites that are bandwidth-limited. Moreover, unlike other search engines Cuil's privacy policy states that it does not store records of users’ search activity or IP addresses.
Ask Jeeves – search engine
Ask.com formerly known as Ask Jeeves is a search engine was founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. Three venture capital firms, Highland Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, and The RODA Group were early investors.
The original Ask Jeeves software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. The technology provided smart search features that lent access to weather forecasts, stock quotes, news headlines, etc. The search site offered various specialized search options apart from effective categorization facilities. It also offered the options to edit, to categorize and to annotate both saved searches and search history.
Ask Jeeves had its own search engine Teoma, which is now defunct. Ask Jeeves again on February 27, 2006 disassociated the character Jeeves and renamed the firm Ask.com and later in 2007 Ask.
The original Ask Jeeves software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. The technology provided smart search features that lent access to weather forecasts, stock quotes, news headlines, etc. The search site offered various specialized search options apart from effective categorization facilities. It also offered the options to edit, to categorize and to annotate both saved searches and search history.
Ask Jeeves had its own search engine Teoma, which is now defunct. Ask Jeeves again on February 27, 2006 disassociated the character Jeeves and renamed the firm Ask.com and later in 2007 Ask.
Vivisimo – search engine
Vivísimo was founded in 2000 by a trio of computer science researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The name was taken from the Latin root viva for "life," with the Romance suffix – issimo indicating a superlative.
Vivísimo is a privately held enterprise search software company in Pittsburgh that develops and sells software products to improve search on the web and in enterprises. The technology that Vivísimo uses could classify search results based on clustering and metasearch technology. The company made active use of business intelligence and data mining techniques to explore its database and to bring out the veiled and hidden relationships therein.
Vivísimo technology is available to enterprise in the form of a cohesive search suite, Vivísimo Velocity, which includes the Velocity Search Engine, Velocity Clustering Engine and Velocity Content Integrator. The technology is also freely available to the public in the form of Clusty. Vivisimo , despite a negligible share in the search engine market, was able to achieve high quality results on any type of textual content with little or no customization.
Vivísimo is a privately held enterprise search software company in Pittsburgh that develops and sells software products to improve search on the web and in enterprises. The technology that Vivísimo uses could classify search results based on clustering and metasearch technology. The company made active use of business intelligence and data mining techniques to explore its database and to bring out the veiled and hidden relationships therein.
Vivísimo technology is available to enterprise in the form of a cohesive search suite, Vivísimo Velocity, which includes the Velocity Search Engine, Velocity Clustering Engine and Velocity Content Integrator. The technology is also freely available to the public in the form of Clusty. Vivisimo , despite a negligible share in the search engine market, was able to achieve high quality results on any type of textual content with little or no customization.
Eurekster – search engine
Eurekster is a company based in Christchurch, New Zealand, with an office located in San Francisco, California, that builds social search engines for use on websites, the search engines are called swickis.
The co-founder and chief scientist of Eurkester is Dr Grant Ryan, who is also the co-founder and chairman of Christchurch-based company, SLI Systems, who specialize in search engines that learns from the users.
Eurekster a startup launched in January 2004, specialized in providing highly personalized search results to users through its proprietary SearchParty technology. Its search engine was capable of analyzing the search behavior of its users and supplied results based on their preferences and interests.
The co-founder and chief scientist of Eurkester is Dr Grant Ryan, who is also the co-founder and chairman of Christchurch-based company, SLI Systems, who specialize in search engines that learns from the users.
Eurekster a startup launched in January 2004, specialized in providing highly personalized search results to users through its proprietary SearchParty technology. Its search engine was capable of analyzing the search behavior of its users and supplied results based on their preferences and interests.
Factiva – search engine
Factiva – search engine
Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters company provided global content, including newswires from Dow Jones & Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. Factiva has unrivaled collection of more than 14,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles. It offered a personalized single content solution with multiple language interfaces from archives of 9000 news sources. Thus, an engineering team got highly technical results while a marketing outfit got consumer friendly documents.
Factiva boosts of an innovative, XML-based and Web services-enabled technology platform provides access to this rich content collection via role-specific products or through customized enterprise, group or personal solutions
Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters company provided global content, including newswires from Dow Jones & Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. Factiva has unrivaled collection of more than 14,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles. It offered a personalized single content solution with multiple language interfaces from archives of 9000 news sources. Thus, an engineering team got highly technical results while a marketing outfit got consumer friendly documents.
Factiva boosts of an innovative, XML-based and Web services-enabled technology platform provides access to this rich content collection via role-specific products or through customized enterprise, group or personal solutions
Top ten search engine
A search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. Information may consist of web pages, images and other types of files. In 1993, Matthew Gray at MIT developed the first Web search engine Wandex. There were over 1000 search engines providing varying search results to online users. Popular among them are Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves), Baidu (Chinese), Cuil, Exalead (French), Gigablast, Google, Live Search (formerly MSN Search), gou (Chinese), Sohu (Chinese), Wikia Search, Yahoo! Search. Top ten search engine based on the Nielsen//NetRatings, 2007 are
Provider Share of Total Searches
Google 55.2 Percent
Yahoo 21.9 Percent
MSN/Windows Live 9 Percent
AOL 5.4 Percent
Ask.com 1.8 Percent
My Web Search 1 Percent
Comcast 0.5 Percent
EarthLink 0.4 Percent
Dogpile.com 0.4 Percent
My Way 0.4 Percent
Other 3.9 Percent
All search 100 Percent
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, 2007
Most of the search engine derived their revenues through advertisements and paid listings, a good many served as secondary service offerings. The industry saw many other players who also offered compatible services on competitive pricings. The smaller players targeted niche segments offering differentiated service or distinctive search technology. Since 1993 industry has seen various launches (see list) few of them survived and few had a premature death.
The best search engines launches:
Year Event Search Engine
1993 Launch Aliweb
1994 Launch WebCrawler
1994 Launch Infoseek
1994 Launch Lycos
1995 Launch (part of DEC) AltaVista
1995 Launch Excite
1996 Founded HotBot
1996 Founded Ask Jeeves
1998 Launch Google
1999 Founded Teoma
2000 Founded Baidu
2003 Launch Info.com
2004 Final launch Yahoo! Search
2004 Launch A9.com
2006 Founded Quaero
2006 Launch Live Search
2006 Beta Launch ChaCha
2006 Beta Launch Guruji.com
2007 Launched Wikiseek
2008 Launched Cuil
Provider Share of Total Searches
Google 55.2 Percent
Yahoo 21.9 Percent
MSN/Windows Live 9 Percent
AOL 5.4 Percent
Ask.com 1.8 Percent
My Web Search 1 Percent
Comcast 0.5 Percent
EarthLink 0.4 Percent
Dogpile.com 0.4 Percent
My Way 0.4 Percent
Other 3.9 Percent
All search 100 Percent
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, 2007
Most of the search engine derived their revenues through advertisements and paid listings, a good many served as secondary service offerings. The industry saw many other players who also offered compatible services on competitive pricings. The smaller players targeted niche segments offering differentiated service or distinctive search technology. Since 1993 industry has seen various launches (see list) few of them survived and few had a premature death.
The best search engines launches:
Year Event Search Engine
1993 Launch Aliweb
1994 Launch WebCrawler
1994 Launch Infoseek
1994 Launch Lycos
1995 Launch (part of DEC) AltaVista
1995 Launch Excite
1996 Founded HotBot
1996 Founded Ask Jeeves
1998 Launch Google
1999 Founded Teoma
2000 Founded Baidu
2003 Launch Info.com
2004 Final launch Yahoo! Search
2004 Launch A9.com
2006 Founded Quaero
2006 Launch Live Search
2006 Beta Launch ChaCha
2006 Beta Launch Guruji.com
2007 Launched Wikiseek
2008 Launched Cuil
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