Category «Search Engines»

New Yahoo! Search

Press release: “Yahoo! Search today announced Search Assist, the most advanced assistance technology available on the Web, and the integration of audio, video and photos directly into the search results to help make Web search effortless for consumers. The new Yahoo! Search was designed to better understand user intent and get consumers to the results …

Subjects: Search Engines

Google Video Alerts

Official Google Blog: “Video Alerts enables you to specify any topics or queries of interest so we can deliver interesting and relevant videos on a daily, weekly, or as-it-happens basis (your choice) to you via email. To start receiving Video Alerts, you can visit the Google Alerts homepage directly or set up the alert during …

Subjects: Search Engines

New Search Engines Focus on Biomedical Literature and Clinical Trials Information

Press release: “Healia announced today the launch of two new search engine tools – Healia PubMed/Medline Search and Clinical Trials Search – to help consumers find relevant biomedical literature and clinical trials information…Healia PubMed/Medline Search is specifically designed to help consumers retrieve abstracts (summaries) of scientific articles published in biomedical journals in a user-friendly way. …

Subjects: Search Engines

Senate Plans Hearing on Google-Doubleclick Merger

EPIC: “The United States Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled An Examination of the Google-Doubleclick Merger and the Online Advertising Industry: What Are the Risks for Competition and Privacy on Thursday, September 27. Dave Drummond of Google, Brad Smith of Microsoft, Scott Cleland of Precursor, Tom Lenard of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, …

Subjects: Congress, E-Commerce, Privacy, Search Engines

Windows Live Translator Beta

Windows Live Translator Beta: “If you click on a “Translate this page” link in the Live Search results or enter a web address in the web page translation box on translator.live.com, translations will be presented to you in the Bilingual Viewer, providing easy access to the original web page and its translation. In the Bilingual …

Subjects: Search Engines

Google Privacy Chief Calls for International Data Protection Standards

Heise Online: “The world’s number one search engine Google is calling for international standards for data protection. “Three quarters of the countries in the world have no privacy regimes at all”, Peter Fleischer, Google’s Privacy Chief, explained at a conference organized by UNESCO, the UN’s Education, Science, and Culture Organization, on the topic of “Internet …

Subjects: EU Data Protection, Privacy, Search Engines

Reading Books in the Digital Age Subsequent to Amazon, Google and the Long Tail

Reading Books in the Digital Age subsequent to Amazon, Google and the long tail by Terje Hillesund, Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway. First Monday, volume 12, number 9 (September 2007), “In the last decades, the book industry has changed and is now characterised by two (or three) opposite tendencies: Many publishing firms …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Libraries, Search Engines

Google Adds New Features to Book Search, Advanced Search and Google Reader

Google Launches New Features to Collect, Share, and Discover New Books – ComputerWorld: “Users may now…”create and search their own library built on Google Book Search, so they can organize, annotate and do a full text search through the books they have chosen…share their expertise by allowing them to annotate their libraries with labels, write …

Subjects: Blogs, Knowledge Management, Libraries, RSS, Search Engines

Free Federal Court Opinions Website Now Searchable From 2004 to Present

Tim Stanley: US Federal District Court Opinions with Full Text Search: “We have put online the Federal District Court case opinions and orders that are available using the opinion report in the Federal Courts’ ECF. These are updated daily. We have categorized the opinions by state, court, type of lawsuit and judge and combinations of …

Subjects: Courts, Legal Research, Search Engines

Current Awareness Search Engine Indexes 1,400 RSS Feeds on Library Related Topics

“LibWorm Beta is intended to be a search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries or care about libraries. LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output …

Subjects: Blogs, Libraries, RSS, Search Engines

Medical RSS Filter Engine Offers Over 4000 Authoritative RSS Feeds

“MedWorm is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds…MedWorm collects updates from over 4000 authoritative data sources (growing each day) via RSS feeds. From the data collected, MedWorm provides new outgoing RSS feeds on various medical categories that you can subscribe to, via the …

Subjects: Blogs, Legal Research, RSS, Search Engines