Category «Search Engines»

British Museum Launches Searchable Collection Database

“Welcome to the British Museum collection database. When complete, it will contain a record of every object in the Museum collection. This is the first release and contains records for the collection of two-dimensional works (almost entirely drawings, prints and paintings) from all over the world. New records and images are being added every week …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Geospatial One-Stop Geographic Information System Portal

National Archives: “Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) is a geographic information system portal that serves as a public gateway for improving access to geospatial information and data. This portal makes it easier, faster, and less expensive for all levels of government and the public to access geospatial information. GOS provides web access to maps, data and other …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Search Engines

E-Government Re-Authorization Act Requires Agencies to Ensure Transparency to Search Engines

Google Public Policy Blog: “Google has been working to make publicly available government information more accessible to the public. We’re doing so by helping government agencies implement the Sitemap Protocol, a technical standard that makes it easier for search engines to crawl and index pages on a website…The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee…[reported …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation, Search Engines

Commentary on Digitization of the World's Libraries

The New Yorker: Digitization and its discontents, by Anthony Grafton, November 5, 2007 “…the Internet will not bring us a universal library, much less an encyclopedic record of human experience. None of the firms now engaged in digitization projects claim that it will create anything of the kind. The hype and rhetoric make it hard …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

UN, Google, Cisco Unveil Online Resource

“The United Nations, Google and Cisco today unveiled a pioneering online site that tracks progress towards decreasing global poverty by 2015, a global campaign known as the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. Visit the website at www.mdgmonitor.org” Google press release: “MDG Monitor tracks progress toward the MDGs in a number of categories in nearly every …

Subjects: Internet, Search Engines

Guide to Finding Old Web Pages

Greg R. Notess updated his guide, Finding Old Web Pages: “The Web changes constantly, and sometimes that page that had just the information you needed yesterday (or last month or two years ago) is not available today. At other times you may want to see how a page’s content or design has changed. There are …

Subjects: Legal Research, Search Engines

Net Critic Hails Yahoo Search

Why Yahoo, not Google, should drive your search, by Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune Internet critic, October 12, 2007: “The Yahoo [search] effort…is so impressive I’m going to make it my default searcher. Best is “Search Assist,” an expandable box right below where you type your query that offers a bevy of clickable terms to help …

Subjects: Search Engines

Google Remains at the Top – comScore August 2007 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

“comScore, Inc….released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. Among core search engines in August 2007, Google Sites remained the top search property with more than 5.5 billion core searches conducted, representing a 56.5 percent share of the search market…In August, Google Sites maintained its position atop the core search rankings with 56.5 …

Subjects: Search Engines

Microsoft Launches Technology Platform to Collect, Store and Share Health Information

Press release: “Joined by nationally recognized medical providers, health-management device manufacturers and patient advocacy organizations, Microsoft Corp. today launched Microsoft® HealthVault, a software and services platform aimed at helping people better manage their health information. The company outlined its vision for ways that HealthVault can bring the health and technology industries together to create new …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Microsoft, Search Engines

New Paper on Google's Law

Google’s Law, Working Paper (2007), by Greg Lastowka, Rutgers University, Assistant Professor of Law: “Google has become, for the majority of Americans, the index of choice for online information. Through dynamically generated results pages keyed to a near-infinite variety of search terms, Google steers our thoughts and our learning online. It tells us what words …

Subjects: Patent and Trademark, Search Engines