Nov. 1, 2000 Search Engine News

In clearing out some Supplemental pages on our site, I ran across this. It is amazing that this was just six years ago. How the market has changed. Of the engines discussed, only Google remains (Inktomi doesn’t count).

Search Engine Update

AltaVista - Has joined the “GoTo.com” affiliate network. They display the Top 3 results from GoTo at the bottom of their search results. These results normally appear in Green with the “Sponsors Listings” title.

Excite - We have seen their spider active on many of our servers but we have seen no new pages updated in their index.

HotBot - They joined as a “GoTo.com” affiliate in November.

Google - Just posted an update and have been actively spidering sites. If you aren’t receiving the bulk of your traffic from Google, you should resubmit your pages.

Infoseek - The executives at Go.com obviously are looking for a revenue stream, but forgot that you have to have a good product before people will buy. Go actually believes it can hop on the “paid listing” wagon and charge $199 like Yahoo! and LookSmart. With less than 2% market share we advise to steer clear.

Inktomi - Has launched a “pay to be spidered” program. Terry Plank, CEO of The Academy of Web Specialists highly recommends the service as part of your overall search engine strategy.

Lycos - Joined the “GoTo.com” family in November. They are displaying GoTo listings at the top of their search results. They display under “Featured Listings”.