Category «Search Engines»

ACSI: Apple, Google Surge in Customer Satisfaction

News release: “Customer satisfaction continues on a bumpy path without momentum or trend in the second quarter, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index. After a small uptick last quarter, ACSI slips 0.1% to 75.1 on a 100-point scale. The ACSI second quarter report, released today from the University of Michigan’s National Quality Research Center, …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Search Engines

Pew Internet Report on Search Engine Use

News release: “The percentage of internet users who use search engines on a typical day has been steadily rising from about one-third of all users in 2002, to a new high of just under one-half (49%). With this increase, the number of those using a search engine on a typical day is pulling ever closer …

Subjects: Search Engines

Report: Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs

Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs, by Kat Hagedorn Metadata Harvesting Librarian, Digital Library Production Service, University of Michigan Libraries, Ann Arbor, MI and Joshua Santelli Applications Programmer, Digital Library Production Service, University of Michigan Libraries, Ann Arbor, MI. D-Lib Magazine, July/August 2008, Volume 14 Number 7/8.

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

New on LLRX.com – Review of Zotero

A Review of Zotero, the free, Firefox extension to assist in collecting, managing and citing research sources – Stacy Bruss focuses on specific and practical examples of using this flexible application to organize and manage current collections of resources as well as citations to documents, web sites, and blogs. — Published July 24, 2008

Subjects: Search Engines

Google Launched Elections Video Search Gadget

Official Google Blog: “Today, the Google speech team (part of Google Research) is launching the Google Elections Video Search gadget, our modest contribution to the electoral process. With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube’s Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget you can search …

Subjects: Government Documents, Search Engines

HealthMap Global Disease Alert Map

“HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Google Launches 2008 US Election Trends Site

2008 US Election Trends: “See what Americans are searching for on politics. Use the Search Queries Map to view search trends from the 2008 election by location. Track the most searched elections-related terms below, and find out which candidates are hot in different cities. Find out how other Americans stay politically engaged online…Use the Candidate …

Subjects: Search Engines

Introduction to Information Retrieval

“This is the companion website for the following book. Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. This “is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering. Written from …

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

Google Book Search Bibliography

Google Book Search Bibliography, Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Version 2: 5/27/2008 “This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works …

Subjects: Search Engines