1	Developments in search engine features and search tools Phil Bradley ONLINE 2003
2	Developments during 2003 Rise and rise of Google: 200 million searches a day 75% of all search engine generated traffic to websites (Seattle Times June 2003) “Google’s search service has changed the way everyone from CEOs to their teenagers look for and think about information” (Fortune Magazine, December 2003) Google has now become a verb
3	Google (cont) In 18 months it has quadrupled in size, the annual revenues have sextupled and pre-tax profits have grown by a factor of 23 Competition is strong however: Microsoft is spending millions of $’s to build its own search engine, to incorporate into MSN and the new operating system due out in 2006 Yahoo has been playing Monopoly
4	Google - competition Yahoo has bought Inktomi, Overture and therefore owns AltaVista and AlltheWeb AOL, eBay and Amazon are all drawing up battle plans to attack the Google weakspot – lack of customer lock-in. What keeps people wedded to Google? Compare what Google knows about you and what Amazon knows Google recently purchased the Kaltix Corp
5	New search engine features Google added ‘Define’ and ‘~’ for synonyms Also added a calculator function and news alerts. Gigablast dropped the date sort, but added support for Boolean and nested logic. Also indexing meta tags.
6	New features (cont) Ask Jeeves has added an advanced search page Consequently Teoma has done the same Neither are particularly advanced Database size has increased: Google 3.3 billion web pages AlltheWeb 3.2 billion web pages
7	File Type formats Gigablast now searches PDF’s, Postscript, PowerPoint and Excel AlltheWeb added Rich Text Format, PowerPoint, Excel, Postscript, Word Perfect and Star Office
8	Year of the toolbar Toolbars have been popular: Google Hotbot AltaVista Ask Jeeves Infospace
9	New search engines Mooter (http://www.mooter.com) Clusters results graphically Zapmeta (http://www.zapmeta.com) Multi search engine with sort facility Fazzle (http://www.fazzle) Multi search engine competing with Zapmeta WotBot (http://www.wotbot.com)
10	New search engines (cont) Netnose (http://www.netnose.com) Users can rank results for accuracy and use Babieca (http://www.babieca.com) PPC engine Turbo10 (http://turbo10.com) Designed to search the deep net
11	In other search news… Amazon has launched a searchable database of over 120,000 books Google is responding by talking to OCLC to include a subset of their WorldCat database of library holdings Google buys Blogger Continued rise of Weblogs and search engines to go with them
12	Was it good for you? More search engines Increased number of search facilities (just!) Monopoly approach Rise of Google Personalisation What’s on the horizon?