Category «Search Engines»

Making it easier to find government agencies

USA.gov Blog: “Finding contact information for a federal department or agency is a top task at USA.gov and USAGov en Español. Our A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies directory is a popular feature and the result of many years of user testing and website user metrics. Over time, we’ve noticed a pain point …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Google Seeks to Break Vicious Cycle of Online Slander

The New York Times: “For many years, the vicious cycle has spun: Websites solicit lurid, unverified complaints about supposed cheaters, sexual predators, deadbeats and scammers. People slander their enemies. The anonymous posts appear high in Google results for the names of victims. Then the websites charge the victims thousands of dollars to take the posts …

Subjects: AI, Search Engines, Social Media

The First ‘Google Translate’ for Elephants Debuts

Scientific American: “An online animal catalogue lets you decode communications and other behaviors for everyone’s favorite pachyderm..Elephants possess an incredibly rich repertoire of communication techniques, including hundreds of calls and gestures that convey specific meanings and can change depending on the context. Different elephant populations also exhibit culturally learned behaviors unique to their specific group. …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

How to make your offline self harder to find online

The Verge:  “There are two key concepts in information security: threat model and attack surface. “Threat model” is another way of asking, “Who’s out to get you?” If your threat model includes the curiosity of nation-state intelligence services, you have many more things to worry about than J. Random User. It’s more likely that voicing …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated May 2021

Via LLRX – Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated May 2021 – This guide on competitive intelligence resources on the web was first published in 2005, and Sabrina I. Pacifici has continued to edit, revise and update it over the course of 16 years. Her objective is to provide researchers with a …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 30, 2021

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 30, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Energy, Government Documents, Health Care, Privacy, Search Engines

A Map of the Internet 2021

Kottke.org – “Translating sites, search engines, social networks, browsers, ISPs, and other internet entities into geographic features, Martin Vargic has created a map of the internet circa 2021. It includes several thousand of some of the most popular websites, represented as distinct “countries”, which are grouped together with others of similar type or category, forming …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

The Sifter – Search the World of Food

A Tool for Food History Research – “The Sifter is a free website for searching and comparing authors, their works and the details of their works regarding food and related topics around the world and throughout history.  Browse and search through thousands of historical cookbooks and manuscripts dating back to the Middle Ages!  We have …

Subjects: Food and Nutrition, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Microsoft Academic discontinued & Semantic Scholar withdraws hosting of “Open access” papers

Musings About Librarianship – “In the last month, there were two interesting developments that caused quite a stir in my twitter feeds (see discussions here and here). Firstly, there was an interesting announcement on the Unpaywall mailing list, that Unpaywall had detected that Semantic Scholar which was one of the biggest repository sources they were …

Subjects: E-Records, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines, Social Media