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Official Google Blog: “Six months ago we started rolling out a new look and feel for Search, News, Maps, Translate, Gmail and a bunch of other products. Our goal was to create a beautifully simple and intuitive user experience across Google. Were now ready for the next stage of our redesigna new Google bar that …
Follow up to previous postings on The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls project, via NYT – “When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When the museum opened an enhanced Web site with newly digitized …
Google Scholar Blog: “A few months ago, we introduced a limited release of Google Scholar Citations, a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time. Today, were delighted to make this service available to everyone! Click here and follow the instructions to get started. Heres how it works. You …
Official Google Blog: “Behind the simplicity of Google search is a complex set of algorithms that expands and improves the query youve typed to find the best results. Automatic spelling correction ([vynal] to vinyl) and substituting synonyms (matching [pictures] to photos) are just two examples of the improvements we make…weve received a lot of requests …
Google Transparency Report – Government Requests: “Like other technology and communications companies, Google regularly receives requests from government agencies and courts around the world to remove content from our services and hand over user data. Our Government Requests tool discloses the number of requests we receive from each government in six-month reporting periods with certain …
News release: “New research from SMU’s Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, documents significant geothermal resources across the United States capable of producing more than three million megawatts of green power 10 times the installed capacity of coal power plants today. Sophisticated mapping produced from the research, viewable via Google Earth at …
Official Google Blog: “As search becomes an increasingly customized experience, we recognize the growing importance of protecting the personalized search results we deliver. As a result, were enhancing our default search experience for signed-in users. Over the next few weeks, many of you will find yourselves redirected to https://www.google.com (note the extra s) when youre …
“What is Page Speed Online? Page Speed Online analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Reducing page load times can reduce bounce rates and increase conversion rates. See also: The need for speed, MIT technology review | When seconds count, Gomez
Daniel Soar: “This spring, the billionaire Eric Schmidt announced that there were only four really significant technology companies: Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google, the company he had until recently been running. People believed him. What distinguished his new gang of four from the generation it had superseded companies like Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Cisco, …
Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums Part 1: Site Reviews – Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Program Officer OCLC Research; Cyndi Shein, Assistant Archivist Getty Research Institute “This report provides an overview of social metadata to enable cultural heritage institutions to better utilize their users’ expertise and enrich their descriptive metadata to improve their users’ experiences. Metadata …
Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship’s Hidden Terrain, by Jennifer Howard Imagine a Google Maps of scholarship, a set of tools sophisticated enough to help researchers locate hot research, spot hidden connections to other fields, and even identify new disciplines as they emerge in the sprawling terrain of scholarly communication. Creating …
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: “Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser …
