References

Timeline (a history of search engines)

Search Engine History .com 
www.searchenginehistory.com 


A Brief History of Search Engines 
www.webreference.com/authoring/search_history/ 

Wikipedia 
Web Search Engine 
Ted Nelson

Tim Burners-Lee 
History of the World Wide Web

Hypertext 


A History of Search Engines 
www.wiley.com 

Project Xanadu 
www.xanadu.net 

The Atlantic Online 
www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush 

A Brief History of the Internet 
www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html 

 

 


 



How web search engines work?

How Stuff Works 
How Internet Search Engines Work 
computer.howstuffworks.com/search-engine.htm 
 
What is the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web 
computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-versus-world-wide-web.htm 


Buzzle.com 
How does a search engine work 
www.buzzle.com/articles/how-does-a-search-engine-work.html 

Search Engine Watch 
How Search Engines Work 
searchenginewatch.com/2168031 

The Animated Internet 
How Search Engines Work 
www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/search.html 

Life of a Google Query 
www.google.com/corporate/tech.html 
 


Revenue side of search engines

Financial Times 
Search Engines are not the only sites 
John Gapper

March 6, 2006 


Rocky Mountain News 
Advertising Revenues flows to search engines more than to Websites

Jeff Smith

July 20, 2008 


Organic Spam 
Search engine optimization and web marketing 
www.organicspam.com/what_is_search_engine_marketing.asp 
Google’s Revenue Model 
www.organicspam.com/google_revenue_model.asp 


Wikipedia 
Search Engine Marketing 

 



Search engine optimization

Wikipedia 
Search Engine Optimization 
Search Engine Marketing 

Google Webmaster Guidelines 
www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769 

Yahoo! Webmaster Guidelines 
help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/basics/basics-18.html 

Live Search Webmaster Guidelines 
help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-us&project=wl_webmasters 

How Stuff Works 
How Search Engine Optimization Works 
computer.howstuffworks.com/search-engine-optimization.htm 
 



The darkside of search engines

Netscape Internet Service 
The 8 Most Dangerous Search Words Ever 
channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/package.jsp?name=fte/searchdanger/searchdanger&floc=wn-nx 

Wikipedia 
Click fraud 
Criticisms of Google 
Criticisms of Yahoo! 

Enquiro Search Solutions 
Website Re-design Dangers 
www.enquiro.com/marketing-monitor/website-redesign-dangers.asp 

Computer Weekly.com 
Search engines expose website vulnerabilities 
www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2004/07/30/204224/search-engines-expose-website-vulnerabilities.htm 

The New York Times 
E.U. Probes Google Over Data Retention Policy 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/business/26google.html 

BBC News, Technology 
Google ranked 'worst' on privacy  
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6740075.stm 
 
 


 



Other search engines

Infoaxe 
www.infoaxe.com 
infoaxe.wordpress.com 

Gigablast 
www.gigablast.com 

Factbites 
www.factbites.com 

Exalead 
www.exalead.com 
blog.exalead.com 

Snap 
www.snap.com 

Cuil 
www.cuil.com 


TechCrunch 
www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/17/infoaxe-records-your-browsing-sessions-lets-you-search-your-web-history/ 

About.com 
Search the Web with Gigablast 
   websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/a/gigablast.htm

Factbites, an Answer Finding Search Engine 
websearch.about.com/od/referencesearch/a/factbites.htm 
Exalead 
websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/a/exalead.htm 
Snap - A New Kind of Search Engine 
websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/a/snap.htm 

TIME, Business and Tech 
Why Cuil is No Threat to Google 
www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1827331,00.html 

 


Blinkx 
www.blinkx.com 


SkreemR 
www.skreemR.com 

Mp3Realm 
www.mp3realm.org 

Music-map 
www.music-map.com 

FindSounds 
www.findsounds.com 

About.com 
Blinkx Video Search 
websearch.about.com/od/imagesearch/a/blinkx.htm 
Find Music You Like with Music-Map 
websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0623.htm 
Find Free Sound Effects with FindSounds 
websearch.about.com/od/imagesearch/a/findsounds.htm  

Hakia 
www.hakia.com 
blog.hakia.com 


ReadWriteWeb 
Hakia Takes on Google With Semantic Technologies 
www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hakia_takes_on_google_semantic_search.php 
 

Sensebot 
www.sensebot.net 
www.sensebot.net/samples.htm 
 

Pandia.com 
Sensebot summarizes search engine results on the fly 
www.pandia.com/sew/479-sensebot.html 
 

Powerset 
www.powerset.com 
 
Wikipedia source 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_set 
 

Deepdyve 
www.deepdyve.com 

 

ReadWriteWeb 
Deepdyve: Indexing the Deep Web 
www.readwriteweb.com/archives/deepdyve_indexing_the_deep_web.php