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Sunday, September 30, 2001
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-7340905-0.html?tag=nbs Searching for Google's success From Knowledge@Wharton For all the problems faced by dot-coms over the past year, the Internet nonetheless offers stunning services. Type a few keywords into a good search engine and up pops a list of related Web sites from all over the world, research that could have taken months prior to the search engine. Indeed, searching is the second biggest activity on the Internet, behind e-mail. Odd, then, that so many well-known search engines have struggled. Excite is in deep financial straits, and many analysts expect it to go under. Well-known engines such as WebCrawler, Lycos and Infoseek have either shut down or turned themselves into fronts for other engines. One of the biggest names, AltaVista, has suffered a steep decline in market share....
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