1. New Search Engine Initiatives in the Age of Google Dominance Eighth Southern African Online Information Meeting By Greg R. Notess SearchEngineShowdown.com

2. Slide 2 ©2005 Greg Notess2 Search Trends Changing Databases New Initiatives Some Unusual Search Options

3. Slide 3 ©2005 Greg Notess3 General Search Engines A New Roster of Unique Databases Probably More Stable Now Name Brands have Own Database

4. Slide 4 ©2005 Greg Notess4 Unique Search Databases: Big 4 Each has their Own Database Ask Jeeves (Teoma) Google MSN Search Yahoo! Search

5. Slide 5 ©2005 Greg Notess5 Unique Databases: Others to Consider Exalead Gigablast WiseNut (LookSmart)

6. Slide 6 ©2005 Greg Notess6 New MSN Search search.msn.com Large, new database Query building "Search Builder" Shortcuts to Encarta information Automatic Local Search Toolbar with Desktop Search

7. Slide 7 ©2005 Greg Notess7 Ask Jeeves/Teoma Initiatives More Ask shortcuts (SmartSearch)SmartSearch Added PDFs, but no limit Personalization: MyJeevesMyJeeves Save, store, organize, edit myjeeves.ask.com Desktop Search, Local Search

8. Slide 8 ©2005 Greg Notess8 Yahoo! Search Initiatives More shortcutsshortcuts Desktop Search, Local Search Personalization: MyWeb (beta)MyWeb myweb.search.yahoo.com/myresults/faq Video Search video.yahoo.com Y!Q Contextual SearchY!Q Contextual Search yq.search.yahoo.com Creative Commons search.yahoo.com/cc Labs: next.yahoo.comnext.yahoo.com

9. Slide 9 ©2005 Greg Notess9 Google Initiatives Desktop Search, Local Search Shortcuts (maps, satellite, Q&A) Google Print, Google Scholar Google SuggestSuggest Video (TV Actually) Search Labs: labs.google.comlabs.google.com Personalization: Search History, Portal

10. Slide 10 ©2005 Greg Notess10 General Trends & Changes Cache expansion: At Google, Yahoo, MSN, Gigablast, Ask? Dates at Google, MSN, Gigablast Text cache at Google, Gigablast Focus on Local (U.S.), Desktop, etc. More uniformity between engines

11. Slide 11 ©2005 Greg Notess11 Personalization Trend Search Histories A9 AOL Ask Jeeves Google Yahoo Customize Page A9 Google Portal My Yahoo! Exalead

12. Slide 12 ©2005 Greg Notess12 Exalead: Search Different exalead.com exalead.com 1 billion+ records Thumbnail screen Refining options Location Document Types Images Video Truncation Proximity Regular expressions Phonetic search Approximate Spelling Date sorting

13. Slide 13 ©2005 Greg Notess13 Gigablast: Another Approach Now 2 billion + Can Search and Display Meta Tags But hard to do Add to the end of the URL &dt=keywords+author+generat or+description:30

14. Slide 14 ©2005 Greg Notess14 Gigablast Custom Topic Search www.gigablast.com/cts.html - or – use Advanced Search Specify own sites Up to 200 web sites Can include a path (site.com/news) Output can be XML Free

15. Slide 15 ©2005 Greg Notess15 A9.com: Meta Search Galore Google for Web, Images Books (Amazon), Yellow Pages Answers.com, Movies OpenSearch to Add More opensearch.a9.com Library Catalogs, PubMed, NYTimes

16. Slide 16 ©2005 Greg Notess16 Specialized Search Tools For example: Creative Commons Search search.creativecommons.org Answers.com Free ready reference sources A9, Amazon Searching Inside the Book Scholarly Searching

17. Slide 17 ©2005 Greg Notess17 Print Searching At A9 Books, Amazon, Google Print Easiest to Find Book Record First Then Search Within, IF Available Google: Use book followed by title words Limit to 3 Records, New Search Option A9/Amazon Has More, For Now

18. Slide 18 ©2005 Greg Notess18 Scholarly Searching Google Scholar Now with Automatic Link Resolvers But still incomplete citations Strange scope and inaccuracies Scirus More traditional approach Commercial/non-commercial content

19. Google Scholar Accuracy Search on 5/23/05 Typographical errors

20. Slide 20 ©2005 Greg Notess20 The Future? Continued Emphasis on New Ideas Most will fail widespread popularity Monetization Focus New Data Sources Still Few Advanced Capabilities

21. More Information at SearchEngineShowdown.com Thank you! greg@notess.com