IntelliSeek also released version 2.5 of BullsEye, its desktop metasearch engine. Lycos will become Terra Lycos as the European Terra Networks buys the well known portal property. This should increase the global reach of both services, but no other direct impact to their search engines has been announced yet. Using technology from Vicinity, the Geo Search enables limiting a search to a specific geographic region within the United States or Canada. The limit is based on geographic information that appears on a Web page.
Searchers can limit by street address, city, state, province, ZIP code, and area code.
The Geo Search results also include extracts of the matching addresses on the pages. PortalB is a new subscription-only business search engine from Data Downlink. This commercial site offers both a directory and a search engine for business-related Web sites. Sites are indexed in the directory by librarians or library school students. The only new option is the ability to request up to 50 results at once, but other options include a family filter, language limits, and language encoding.