WiseNut Launches Out of Beta
WiseNut has officially launched with a new logo, redesigned site, and a new feature. The new feature is the [Sneak-a-Peek] after the result. In Internet Explorer, clicking [Sneak-a-Peek] will bring up...
View ArticleWiseNut announces that it will
WiseNut announces that it will power Lycos Japan. The WiseNut database being used includes 78 million Japanese pages. Lycos Japan will include WiseNuts WiseGuide folders as well as their...
View ArticleLookSmart to Buy WiseNut
LookSmart announces its intent to buy the new search engine WiseNut. The press release notes that they will be integrating the WiseNut technology over the next few quarters, but what that means for...
View ArticleWiseNut Refreshed
At some unknown and unannounced point in the past month, WiseNut finally refreshed its database. For most of the past year, WiseNut had almost no new content from any later than July 2001. By this past...
View ArticleWiseNut Number Gone
I just noticed today that WiseNut no longer displays a number in the upper left corner. Formerly, WiseNut posted ” 1,571,413,207 Web pages and counting!” there. Now that they have finally launched a...
View ArticleWiseNut: Distributed Crawling by Grub
WiseNut owner LookSmart apparently bought Grub back in January. Grub is a project in “distributed Web crawling” that offers a screen-saver that will then use a computer’s spare clock cycles to do some...
View ArticleWiseNut Defunct
Gary noticed that WiseNut, the search engine that has done next to nothing for several years, is now defunct. Owner LookSmart, a long time bit player in search engines and directories now has no Web...
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