Category «Search Engines»

Google Launches New Music Search Feature

Official Google Blog: “…we’re rolling out a search feature that…enabl[es] you to search and more easily discover millions of songs, all via a simple Google web search…Now, when you enter a music-related query — like the name of a song, artist or album — your search results will include links to an audio preview of …

Subjects: Search Engines

New Book Available Online – Search User Interfaces

Search User Interfaces by Marti A. Hearst [the author, with permission of Cambridge University Press, has placed the full text online free of charge. See the terms of service]: “This book focuses on the human users of search engines and the tool they use to interact with them: the search user interface. The truly worldwide …

Subjects: Internet, Search Engines, Web Site Accessibility and Usability

Google and Bing Side By Side Search Comparison

“Can’t choose default search engine? Want to compare Bing & Google results? Just put your query in the search box and press Enter. You’ll see results from both engines side by side. Search provider for Internet Explorer 7/8 and Firefox is also available – search both engines from your browser: www.bing-vs-google.com. Made by Domagoj Pavlesic.”

Subjects: Search Engines

NYT Op Ed – A Library to Last Forever

Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book Settlement, this New York Times Op-Ed today: A Library to Last Forever, by Sergey Brin/Google: “Because books are such an important part of the world’s collective knowledge and cultural heritage, Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, first proposed that we digitize all books a decade ago, …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Commerce, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

Google Family of Sites Remain Atop Search Engine Chart

“Since launching Bing, Microsoft sites have seen a significant increase in search queries, but Google still controls nearly two-thirds of the U.S. search query market, according to a new report released last week. In August, Google sites, including Google, YouTube, and other Google-owned websites, handled 64.6 percent of all searches originating in the United States, …

Subjects: Search Engines

Deloitte: Cloud computing – A collection of working papers

Deloitte: Cloud computing – A collection of working papers, released September 17, 2009 and published on July 31, 2009. “Cloud Computing frequently is taken to be a term that simply renames common technologies and techniques that we have come to know in IT. It may be interpreted to mean data center hosting and then subsequently …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Microsoft, Search Engines

DOJ Filing on Google Book Setttlement – Digital Library Delayed

Follow up to previous postings on what is becoming the saga of the Google Book Settlement, the following articles, legal documents and commentary today: New York Times: Google Working to Revise Digital Books Settlement Author’s Guild: “Beating their midnight deadline by about 90 minutes, the Justice Department on Friday filed a brief calling for modifications …

Subjects: Copyright, Courts, Government Documents, Libraries, Search Engines