Search Payments Cause A Wave Of Concern For Surfers
News Paid inclusion is a class of search marketing in which companies, such as Yahoo-owned Inktomi, accept fees to "crawl" Web sites more often so that fresh product data is included in the index. Under financial pressure, many such services have...
[October 14, 2003, 15:15]
Search Engines Own Up To Paid-for Results
News Under financial pressure, many such sites developed programs that guaranteed they would "crawl" or search a Web address more often, for a price. Inktomi, for example, recently increased the frequency and depth of its search engine to "crawl" about...
[August 19, 2002, 13:12]
LookSmart Draws On Desktop Power
News In January, LookSmart quietly bought the assets of Grub, an Oklahoma-based developer of technology that lets people donate their computers' otherwise unused processing power to run spiders, or software programs that continually crawl the Net...
[March 21, 2003, 12:18]
Overture Acquisitions Target Google
News AltaVista and Fast use search engines to crawl the Web and return relevant results in response to queries. On a combined basis, revenue for Fast and AltaVista was around $60m (£38m) for 2002. AltaVista's and Fast's paid inclusion businesses and...
[February 26, 2003, 11:24]
Search Engines Make Some Noise
News But in Thomas' case it wasn't that simple: most "spiders" that crawl and index the Web are effectively blind to audio and video content, making NPR's highly regarded radio programming all but invisible to mainstream search engines.
[May 28, 2004, 11:35]
Search Engine Crawlers Dig Up Way Too Much
News Search engines already go to some pains not to crawl where they are unwelcome. The overall problem is worse than it was in the early days, when you could do AltaVista searches on the word password and up come hundreds of password files," said...
[November 26, 2001, 14:41]
