Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Good overview on the current state of the search industry:
Economist.com: "Spiders in the web
May 13th 2004 - From The Economist print edition
Searching for profit has become highly competitive
THE tech folk in Silicon Valley knew something was up last year when another web spider appeared. Web spiders are powerful software programs that crawl around the world wide web, automatically analysing words, following links and collecting vast amounts of data. The catalogues they assemble are used by search engines to display an index of web pages in response to key words entered by a user. What was intriguing about this particular spider is that it belonged to Microsoft. Even the world's biggest software company cannot afford to ignore the power of search..."
Economist.com: "Spiders in the web
May 13th 2004 - From The Economist print edition
Searching for profit has become highly competitive
THE tech folk in Silicon Valley knew something was up last year when another web spider appeared. Web spiders are powerful software programs that crawl around the world wide web, automatically analysing words, following links and collecting vast amounts of data. The catalogues they assemble are used by search engines to display an index of web pages in response to key words entered by a user. What was intriguing about this particular spider is that it belonged to Microsoft. Even the world's biggest software company cannot afford to ignore the power of search..."
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