Category «Search Engines»

Data – Google and Facebook now have direct influence over 70% of internet traffic

Do you use Google all the time – at work, on your personal and work mobile devices, tablets, and home/work laptops? This article by André Staltz, The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how, was published on October 30, 2017 and the data he references may surprise you, or not. “Before the year 2014, there …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Google no longer lets you change domains to search different countries

The Verge: “You’ve long been able to get localized search results by visiting Google at different domains — like google.com for the US, google.co.uk for England, or google.co.jp for Japan — but that won’t be the case any more after today. Google said that it’ll now deliver search results relevant to your current location no …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Search health related topics on Google to locate mapping of stats on state and local level

Fortune, John Patrick Pullen – “You can find a lot of things using Google, though sadly the cure for cancer won’t likely be one of them. But a new initiative at the search giant may help provide a better understanding of how the disease and other American health challenges—like diabetes, depression, stroke, and obesity—impact our …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Search Engines

Virtual travel for hikers, travelers and the great outdoors

“Since 1999, UntraveledRoad has been capturing the scenery of modern highways, mountain roads, city streets and trails, visiting places both exotic and familiar to create a photographic virtual world, where you can stop to look at wildflowers, lakes, mountain vistas, and read historic markers, all from the comfort of your computer chair. With 396,883 hand-held …

Subjects: Search Engines

Google Scholar – Follow Related Research for Key Authors

Follow Related Research for Key Authors, October 13, 2017: “Scholar provides several ways to keep up with research in your area. You can set up keyword alerts, get recommendations related to your publications and follow your colleagues’ profiles. Today, we are adding another approach to stay up to date in areas of your interest. Now, …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

The number of linked references of publications in Microsoft Academic in comparison with the Web of Science

The number of linked references of publications in Microsoft Academic in comparison with the Web of Science, Robin Haunschild, Sven E. Hug, Martin P. Brändle, Lutz Bornmann (Submitted on 11 Oct 2017) arXiv:1710.04031 [cs.DL] “In the context of a comprehensive Microsoft Academic (MA) study, we explored in an initial step the quality of linked references …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Enigma Public – Helps Connect You To Free Public Data

The world’s broadest collection of public data. By India Kerle, Associate Product Manager, Enigma “Data released by federal departments, state agencies and the like can reveal trends or anomalies that are in the public’s interest for data journalists to cover. From housing and pricing to hiring and the environment, public data can be critical to piecing …

Subjects: Economy, Energy, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Google – First, Flexible Sampling will replace First Click Free for Articles

Google Blog: “Journalism provides accurate and timely information when it matters most, shaping our understanding of important issues and pushing us to learn more in search of the truth. People come to Google looking for high-quality content, and our job is to help them find it. However, sometimes that content is behind a paywall. While …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines

Elsevier DataSearch Beta

Search for research data across domains and types, from many domain-specific, cross-domain and institutional data repositories. “Elsevier DataSearch (https://datasearch.elsevier.com) is a data search engine that allows scientists and researchers to search for many different data types and formats across a variety of domain-specific and cross-domain institutional data repositories and other data sources. Results display datasets …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines