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Anjali
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:54 am Post subject: What is Infoseek? |
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| What is Infoseek? and what role it plays in the search engine optimization? |
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seox
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
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Location: NY, USA
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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Infoseek was a very popular search engine founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch, et al. By September 1997 it boasted 7.3 million visitors per month [1]. It was bought by Disney in 1998, and the technology was merged with that of the Disney-acquired Starwave to form the Go.com network. Since then it has been replaced with Yahoo! search and is no longer in use.
Infoseek featured a very complex system of search modifiers, including boolean modifiers such as the most basic "OR" and "NOT", parentheses, and quotes, up to being able to say that you want one word or phrase to appear within x number of words from another word or phrase. Infoseek was also known as "big yellow". |
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Mort Godwin
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InfoSeek Ultra (http://ultra.infoseek.com) is a another new search engine.
InfoSeek Ultra uses the + (plus) and - (minus) characters to indicate AND and NOT. So if you wanted to search for the Natural History Museum in London you would type +"Natural History Museum" +London
This will ensure that InfoSeek Ultra should only retrieve documents which contain both the phrase "Natural History Museum" and the word London. You can also search using the OR operator by leaving a blank space between words or phrases. |
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