A new study to be released Monday by Ziff-Davis research group InfoBeads will report that Microsoft's Internet Explorer is used by half of the combined household and corporate browser market, surpassing Netscape's Navigator. However, nearly 60 percent of users with five or more years of Web experience use Navigator, but only 42 percent of users with one year of experience use Netscape's browser. These two search engines have recently added significant new features. Google, a search engine originally developed at the Stanford University Computer Science Department, rates the relevance of a Web page to a particular search query in part by examining how many other Web pages link to it. Google's new feature, Uncle Sam, indexes US Government sites.
Returns feature brief text excerpts and backlinks to the other sites that link to that page.
Search returns note whether the content is audio, video, or both. The company plans to build its business, and then later generate revenue through advertising, sponsorships and add-on services. Under the basic service, customers will be assigned a telephone number where they can receive all of their messages. The messages can then be retrieved either on the Onebox Web site or via telephone. A similar service is also offered by Telebot, which says it already has 35,000 subscribers.