Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David developed a navigational guide to search the Web, and soon Jerry found himself keeping track of not only his favorite sites but also David's. They dubbed their growing list "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web." But their part-time hobby quickly grew into a full-time obsession. More and more of their friends wanted to keep up with what was happening on the Web, and by fall the two enthusiasts were surfing the Net day and night. "It was impossible even to sleep," says Yang. Clearly there was a demand for some sort of service that...
...lure of megasites like Yahoo is that in a place like the Net--where people tend to go wherever they want with ease--there are very few locations that attract a mass audience of the sort that advertisers can get through, say, the Superbowl. As a result, search and commerce sites like Yahoo and chief rival Excite have become gateways (the Net buzz word is portals) to the rest of the electronic universe. And owning a portal is looking a lot like owning a toll bridge. Yahoo charges about 4[cents] for every ad it serves up on many...
WASHINGTON: Worried by President Clinton's boost in the polls following his China trip, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has repeated calls for an independent counsel into allegations that Beijing sought to influence U.S. elections. "Senator Lott is mashing together several unrelated charges in search of an issue for the November election," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "He's going to throw everything up against the wall to see what sticks...
Millions of other Americans are getting bitten as well and, like Wilkinson, are poring over courthouse documents, library books and archives in search of their heritage. A 1995 study by Maritz Marketing Research found that 45% of adults in the U.S. declared they were at least somewhat interested in genealogy, and of those ages 45 to 64, half were actively pursuing it in some...
...recommendation is save your money. Use one of the free family-friendly search sites that are popping up all over the Web. Last week the popular search engine Lycos unveiled SafetyNet, an easy-to-use tool. Simply go to lycos.com click on SafetyNet, select a password and activate the filter. Then whenever you or anyone on your computer searches the Web from lycos.com content will be filtered. Be warned though; there are still plenty of bugs: a search of the word sex returned no results. (Sex education, however, was chock-full of advice that most parents would probably tolerate.) Then...