Category «Search Engines»

Google and Others Provide Haiti Crisis Response Maps and Person Finder

Person Finder: Haiti Earthquake, embeddable application: What is your situation? / I’m looking for someone / I have information about someone. See also: Open Street Map Project’s Haiti Earthquake Map Free access to Haiti Earthquake imagery through DigitalGlobe’s Crisis Event Service Haiti 2010 Sahana Disaster Response Portal [all via Brady Forrest] and Haiti Earthquake Recovery …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Google Announces "A new approach to China"

Official Google Blog: “In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident–albeit a significant one–was something quite different…We launched Google.cn in …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Intellectual Property, Search Engines

Search Engine For Combined Senate and House Health Bills

“The House of Representatives HR 3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act together with the Senate Patient Protection and Affordable Care bill as amended and passed December 24, 2009 are presented here in searchable form. This is provided as a public service. MarpX is a precision search engine uses the “Words Close Together” method of …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation, Search Engines

Withdrawn support for open-education content projects blow to educators and public

Chronicle of Higher Education: “The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is closing a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects, leaving some worried about a vacuum of support for open-source ventures. Mellon’s decade-old Research in Information Technology program, or RIT, helped bankroll a catalog of freely available software that includes Sakai, a …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

New York Review of Books – Google & the Future of Books: An Exchange

Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search – Google & the Future of Books: An Exchange By Paul N. Courant, Laine Farley, Paula Kaufman, John Leslie King, Theodore Koditschek, Anthony Lewis et al. “To the Editors: In his recent article criticizing the Google settlement [Google and the New Digital Future, NYR, December 17, …

Subjects: Copyright, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Study on children and keyword searching – how children and adults search

New York Times: “83 children, ages 7, 9 and 11…participated in a study on children and keyword searching. Sponsored by Google and developed by the University of Maryland and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, the research was aimed at discerning the differences between how children and adults search and identify the barriers children face when …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines

New on LLRX.com – A Guide for the Perplexed Part III: The Amended Settlement Agreement

A Guide for the Perplexed Part III: The Amended Settlement Agreement – On Friday, November 13, 2009, Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers filed an Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) in the copyright infringement litigation concerning the Google Library Project. The amendments proposed by the parties are designed to address objections made …

Subjects: Copyright, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Library Associations Ask DOJ for Active Supervision of Google Settlement

Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book Search settlement, this letter to DOJ Antitrust Division: “The American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries (the Library Associations) write to express our views concerning how the United States should respond to the Amended Settlement Agreement filed …

Subjects: Copyright, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines