Clash of the Titans...

Last year's web site:               http://goose.ycp.edu/~vkline/pala2001/

Keeping Track

• Catalog search (beta, 2002)
• News search (9/2002)
• 77 language interfaces (7/2002)
• Partnering with AOL (5/2002)
• Google Answers (5/2002)
• Google Web APIs (5/2002)
• 20 year archive of 700 million Usenet postings (4/2002)
• 3 billion pages (12/2001)
• Google tool bar (10/2001)
• Image search (7/2001)
• Spell checker improved (5/2001)
• Translate this pages (5/2001)
• Phonebook (3/2001)
• PDF (3/2001)
• Stock quotes (10/2000)
• Dictionary (7/2000)

• Expanded Yahoo! Health (9/2002)
• New Maps (3/2002)
• Launch (music) (12/2001)
• Yahoo! Finance Money Manager (12/2001)
• Yahoo! Shopping (10/2001)
• Yahoo! Enducation (08/2001)
• Yahoo! Broadcast (04/2001)
• Other Milestones

• Prisma (7/2002)
• Breaking News Images (5/2002)
• Expanded multimedia (5/2002)
• Improved crawling (4/2002)
• Shortcuts (2/2002)

• XHTML/CSS compliance (10/2002)
• Macromedia Flash searching (9/2002)
• Alchemist (7/2002)
• 2.1 billion documents (6/2002)
• PDF searching (5/2002)
• Real-time update of news (11/2001)
• Query rewriting (11/2001)
• Customization (11/2001)

• "Powered by Google"
• Traffic graphs
• Traffic rankings
• Referring sites
• Site details
• Wayback Machine
• Site information
• Reviews

• No advertisements
• No popups
• Powered by Google

• Beta
• 3.5 billion pages
• What's new
• Daily search
• Chinese

• Formerly GoTo.com
• "Pay-for-Performance"
• Results in Yahoo!, MSN and Lycos

• Good selection of search engines
• Clustering
• Customizable news and weather

• Clustering
• Customization

• Open Archives Iniative
• Collections from 112 institutions
• good for e-prints
• some historical collections

• Special Collections
• Topics (clustering)

• Congressional Record
• Federal Register
• United States Code
• Congressional Record

• Stocks
• Funds
• Industries
• Personal finance

• Physics, science, medicine
• Search algorithms
• Query reformulation"

News Search Engines

• Designed for news junkies
• Colorful!

• 40 major sources
• Ratings
• Email notification
• Help files would be nice

• 120 papers
• 20 countries

• Audio
• Video
• Streaming media

• 6 languages
• Looks for sentences

• Good for reference queries
• Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Medical, Science, Web links, Translations, etc. as tabs

• Browse by verbs!
• "What do you want to do?"

• Visual results
• Site details
• Sites linked by concepts

KnowPlay?

Search simplifier

• Web
• Finance
• Local
• Map
• Reference
• People
• Media
• Product
• Recipe
• Music
• Computer
• Internet Utilities

• Companion to The Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research
• Weekly newsletter available
• Links to news sites go stale quickly

• Feature comparisons
• Size comparisons
• Overlap
• Dead Links
• News 

• Web Searching Tips
• Search Engine Lists
• Reviews, Ratings & Tests
• Search Engine News