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Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, A White Paper by Oya Y. Rieger, February, 2008. 52 pp. Published by the Council on Library and Information Resources. Executive Summary: “The digitization of millions of books under programs such as Google Book Search and Microsoft Live Search Books is dramatically expanding our ability to search and …
“The University of Michigan’s University Library has just put the millionth book from its collection on-line. That’s one million out of the 7.5 million volumes in the library’s current holdings. Digitized materials are made available publicly via the Mirlyn library catalog and MBooks. MBooks provides full text of works that are in the public domain, …
Press release, February 1, 2008: “Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. Microsofts proposal would allow the Yahoo! shareholders to …
Top 60 Little-Known Technology Web Sites, By Charles Babcock, Thomas Claburn, John Foley, W. David Gardner, Antone Gonsalves, Nicholas J. Hoover, K.C. Jones, Elena Malykhina, Richard Martin, Paul McDougall, Marianne McGee, Chris Murphy, Cora Nucci, Art Wittman, and Serdar Yegulalp, InformationWeek, January 26, 2008 “Our guide to great blogs and Web sites worth adding to …
Advancing Advanced Search, by Stephen Turbek: “Websites have come to depend on their search engines as the volume of content has increased. Yet advanced search functionality has not significantly developed in years. Poor matches and overwhelming search results remain a problem for users. Perhaps the standard search pattern deserves a new look. A progressive disclosure …
Grants and Investments: “As of January 2008, Google.org has committed $75.4 million in grants and investments to further our five initiatives.” WSJ: “Valued at about $2 billion, the assets currently set aside for the company’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, make it larger than any in-house corporate foundation in the U.S., according to the Foundation Center, a …
Press release: “A new report, commissioned by the UKL JISC [Joint Information Systems Committee] and the British Library, counters the common assumption that the Google Generation young people born or brought up in the Internet age is the most adept at using the web. The report by the CIBER research team at University …
Press release: “The University of California announced this week that its widely used eScholarship Repository has surpassed the 5 million mark for full-text downloads of its open access scholarly content. This major milestone reflects the impressive adoption and usage rate the repository has enjoyed since its inception in 2002, with University of California academic units …
“Google U.K. and comScore, Inc…announced the results of a study into online consumer behaviour in the travel sector, finding that consumers are using search engines in more sophisticated ways to research and purchase travel in the UK. The Internet is rapidly becoming the number one resource for the travel consumer. The study revealed that 20 …
Google Maps: enter the “start address” and the “end address.” [Google Blogoscoped]
“The European Library launched a new version of its website on the 4th of December; the changes involve significant lay-out improvements and reflect a constant care for understanding user needs. It also introduces the latest partners collections and the first The European Library web-exhibition.” New collections and new themes: The European Library introduces 6 new …
Courthouse News: “The Federal Circuit renewed patent infringement claims over Google’s AutoLink and AdSense programs by tossing out part of a summary judgment ruling for Hyperphrase Technologies LLC. The circuit decision is a setback for the Internet search engine and a victory for Hyperphrase, which challenged the judgment that neither program infringes any of 15 …
