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Magellan Gone, MSN Review, & Chart Updates

Sometime recently, Excite finally pulled the plug on Magellan, one of the earliest search engines. Going to the Magellan site (which was always located at www.mckinley.com now brings up an Excite screen. WebCrawler still has separate logos and surrounding text, but it now appears to use exactly the same database and search features as Excite. Therefore, both Magellan and WebCrawler have been removed from the Search Engine Feature Chart. I have added a full review of MSN Search and added it to the chart. I have also updated the chart to reflect the lack of functioning truncation at HotBot and have added a "site" notation under sorting for those sites that cluster by site by default.

Dated May 23, 2001 in Site Updates


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