With the addition of the language limit to the top page, the number of results option has been moved to the results page. Google also has changed its results list and now clusters by site, showing only two hits from any one site. No option to uncluster is available. In March, Google added a directory component using the Open Directory. In April, Northern Light launches its Geo Search which uses technology from Vicinity to search for geographic information on Web pages.
Searchers can use it to limit by street address, city, state, province, ZIP code, and area code.
The overlap and unique hit analyses have been updated with data from February. This was their first update since September 1999. Despite some significant growth in the largest search engines, overlap continues to remain low, at least at the individual page level. Fast, AltaVista, Excite, and Northern Light found the most unique hits that no other tested search engine could find. Internet Search Engine Update.