Halley and Fran�ois discuss all things search. Francois has a strong background in specialized information retrieval applications, a fellowship from the Center for Interactive Systems Research at the City University of London, and experience in launching search products, having created an electronic journal search and browsing system in the late 1990's called ScienceServer, which he then sold to a subsidiary of the Dutch conglomerate and publisher Reed Elsevier.

They talk about Yahoo yielding their search market seemingly overnight to Google, as well as discuss the search engines which dominated the Net going back in time including AltaVista, Lycos, InfoSeek and Webcrawler among others. They ponder on whether there is a certain fashion to search and why one database catches on, pushing another aside.

Feedster's partnership with The Washington Post is discussed, as well as other unique features of Feedster. Fran�ois talks about the future direction of search, and the role new search databases like Amazon's A9 and Clusty may carve out.

This program is part of the Memory Lane series featuring Halley Suitt.