Category «Search Engines»

Google Maps Adds Public Transport Routes, Schedules for MA

Google Maps now includes routes, schedules for all public transportation authorities in Mass. by Matt Rocheleau: “Google Maps now includes routes and schedules for all of the public transportation authorities in Massachusetts, including the MBTA and 15 regional transit authorities, state officials say. The move will allow Bay State travelers to use just one tool …

Subjects: Search Engines

Text & Data Mining – A Librarian Overview

Text & Data Mining – A Librarian Overview, Ann Okerson – Senior Advisor, Center for Research Libraries, Chicago IL, USA “Text and data mining offers exciting research opportunities over a broad range of fields. As large corpora of data accumulate, automated and semi-automated analysis of their contents (and often of many different data sets correlated …

Subjects: Copyright, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

The Librarian/Internet-Search Relationship

Defining What We Do — All Over Again”: Occupational Identity, Technological Change, and the Librarian/Internet-Search Relationship. A. Nelson, J. Irwin. Academy of Management Journal, 2013; DOI: 10.5465/amj.2012.0201 “Although a growing literature explores occupational identity, or the overlap between “who we are” and “what we do,” this literature has not fully considered how occupational identity may …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

NIH – Dietary Supplement Label Database

“The Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) is a joint project of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) and National Library of Medicine (NLM). The DSLD contains the full label contents from a sample of dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S. Within the DSLD you may select one or more …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Search Engines

Google – In-depth articles in search results

Posted by Pandu Nayak, Member of Google Technical Staff: “Users often turn to Google to answer a quick question, but research suggests that up to 10% of users’ daily information needs involve learning about a broad topic. That’s why today we’re introducing new search results to help users find in-depth articles. These results are ranked …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

50,000 new words added to Wolfram|Alpha’s dictionary

“We just added over 50,000 new words to Wolfram|Alpha’s dictionary, including archaic words such as pythonist (a conjurer or diviner) and technical terms like cosmochronometer, which refers to processes that are used to determine the age of stars (like radioactive decay). Wolfram|Alpha provides word definitions and, when available, other features such as etymologies and anagrams—pythonist, …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

New Zagat website is free

Google Official Blog: “[July 29, 2013 we launched] a new Zagat website and mobile app for Android and iPhone that puts the very best restaurants and nightspots right at your fingertips. And for the first time, our trusted Zagat ratings and reviews are available for free with no registration required. The new Zagat features the …

Subjects: Search Engines

Google Image Search Improvements

Google Research Blog: [In May 2013] at Google I/O, we showed a major upgrade to the photos experience: you can now easily search your own photos without having to manually label each and every one of them. This is powered by computer vision and machine learning technology, which uses the visual content of an image to generate searchable tags …

Subjects: Internet, Search Engines

American Customer Satisfaction Index e-business report

“The annual ForeSee American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) e-business report 2013 includes an analysis of individual companies within three measured e-business categories. Social Media: Google+, Pinterest.com, Twitter.com, LinkedIn.com, Facebook.com, Wikipedia.com, and YouTube.com Portals and Search Engines: AOL.com, Bing.com, Google.com, MSN.com, and Yahoo.com News & Information Websites: ABCNews.com, CNN.com, FoxNews.com, HuffingtonPost.com, NBCNews.com, NYTimes.com, and USAToday.com”

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing, Search Engines

DeepField Blog – Google Sets New Internet Record

Craig Labovitch via DeepField Blog: “While it is old news that Google is BIG , the sheer scale and dominance of Google in the Internet infrastructure has significant implications on network design and evolution. When we last published some large-scale measurements in 2010, Google represented (a now seemingly small) 6% of Internet traffic. Today, Google …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Search Engines