AlltheWeb First to Search Flash
AlltheWeb announces the ability to search Macromedia flash files. This is the first search engine to include these file types in their database. In addition, they have added several new features to...
View ArticleFast Company Article on FAST
Interesting article on FAST from the unrelated but similarly-named Fast Company magazine.
View ArticleUpdated Reviews
I’ve made minor updates to several reviews including HotBot, Lycos, MSN, Fast Search, and Inktomi. Changes include updates on which Inktomi features work at HotBot and MSN, and a note on how to get the...
View ArticleHotBot Searches Four
HotBot has relaunched and now can search Inktomi, Google, FAST, and Teoma. Terra-Lycos, the owner of HotBot, says that with the new HotBot, they want to give the users control. It certainly makes it...
View ArticleFAST at Espotting and Espotting at AlltheWeb
FAST announces an agreement with Espotting (a paid ranking search engine like Overture). FAST will provide the general search engine results at Espotting’s site after the paid ranking results. Also,...
View ArticleAlltheWeb and FAST also Bought by Overture
Another week, another acquisition. Last week, Overture announced plans to buy AltaVista. This week it announces the planned acquisition of the Web Search Unit of Fast Search & Transfer which...
View ArticleNow FAST Gets AltaVista Enterprise from Overture
On top of all the continuing confusion of acquisitions and ownerships changes in the search engine field, comes this one. Earlier this year Overture bought up AltaVista and the FAST Web Search business...
View ArticleYahoo! Grabs Overture (and AlltheWeb and AltaVista)
Yahoo! announces today that they are acquiring Overture, known for its highly profitable ads, ranked by the highest bidder. And Overture earlier this year bought up AltaVista and AlltheWeb. At a price...
View ArticleHotBot Drops FAST (AlltheWeb/Lycos)
Gary Price noticed that HotBot has dropped one of its databases. Originally labeled FAST and then changed to Lycos, the underlying database was basically the same as the one at AlltheWeb. It is...
View ArticleLycos Switches to Inktomi
There is no more AlltheWeb (or FAST Web Search if you prefer) database access anywhere that I know of. Lycos is now shows an Inktomi logo and uses the same Inktomi-based database as is seen at...
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