History of Search Engines: Feeling nostalgic for the past in web searching or feeling a need to grieve? Two old-time search people review the search engines and search.
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved by Danny SUllivan SEW (Mar 4, 2003) -- rest in peace, changes, same as ever, new breed, powered by others.
I think Excite should be listed as one of the dead rather than as reborn. The search engine with concept-based search was abandoned, the news search that could learn from your searches was killed. The Canadian Excite.ca died. Today Excite.com has a mediocre meta-search engine and somewhat adequate portal.
A Decade on the Net by Greg Notess. On the Net in Online (March 2003) "On this tenth anniversary of that first column proclaiming the meeting of the Internet with the online searching world, much has changed. Looking back over 10 years' worth of columns gives a snapshot of the growth of the Internet as a major information resource and a look at how it has changed."
Posted by Gwen at March 5, 2003 09:54 AM