Category «Search Engines»

Kaiser Foundation Offers Pre-Queried Searches on Health Policy Issues

From kaiserEDU.org: “SmartLinks provides ‘pre-queried’ searches on health policy topics (Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Electronic Medical Records; Children’s Health Coverage; Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan; Direct-to-Consumer Advertising; Public Health Preparedness; Drug Safety and Regulation; Stem Cell Policy; Drug Reimportation; VA Health System) in several different internet search engines. You’ll get results from: PubMed, Kaisernetwork Daily …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Search Engines

Google Launches Blog Alert

Via Official Google Blog: “…the new Blog Alert, which notifies you about new blog search results. We’ve also added a Comprehensive Alert, which can show results from multiple sources (including Google News, the web, and blogs) so you get fuller information whenever your favorite topics appear online.”

Subjects: Blogs, Search Engines

Library of Congress Launches Comprehensive New Search Feature

New Search (BETA): “For the first time you can search the largest sections of the Library’s site from one search box.” Search individually or collectively, the following content: U.S. historical and cultural collections (American Memory); Library of Congress Online Catalog; Prints & Photographs Online Catalog; Library of Congress Web site.

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

Belgian Newspapers In Discussions With Microsoft Over Copyright Fees

Follow-up to September 18, 2006 posting Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Copyright Dispute, reports that Begian news rights representative Copiepresse is continuing its breach of copyright action against Microsoft and will target Yahoo in future.

Subjects: Copyright, Legal Research, Search Engines

Google Launches Custom Search Engine

Google press release: “Google Custom Search Engines empower users to choose which pages they want to include in their index, how the content should be prioritized, whether others can contribute to their index, and what the search results page will look like…organizations or individuals simply go to www.google.com/coop/cse and select the websites or pages they’d …

Subjects: Search Engines

Enhanced Image Search Capabilities Added to Firstgov.gov

Press release: “Convera Corporation…announced it has been selected by prime contractor Vivisimo to support the image search at FirstGov.gov, the official web portal of the United States Government. Convera search technology will be supplementing the image index for FirstGov.gov search, enabling FirstGov.gov to better deliver images in response to the millions of queries made by …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Search Engines

University of Wisconsin-Madison Joins Google Books Library Project

Press release: “Together, the UW-Madison and Google will expand access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical materials from the UW-Madison libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. Some wonderful examples from their collection can be found here. The combined 7.2 million holdings of these libraries comprise one of the largest collections of historical …

Subjects: Copyright, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Google Docs and Spreadsheets Launched Today

“Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers.” Take a tour of Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Google Code Search Launched

“…Google Code Search…gives programmers a single place to search publicly accessible source code.”

Subjects: Search Engines

WaPo Examines Google's Graphic Interface Over the Years

The Heart of Google’s Wild Success Is a Home Page of Calculated Simplicity

Subjects: Search Engines

University Complutense of Madrid Joins Google Book Project

Press release: “Working together, Google and the University Complutense of Madrid will digitise the university’s hundreds of thousands of public domain works, so that anyone, at anytime will be able to view, browse, read, and even download the full texts from the library’s historic and special collections. The library of the Complutense University of Madrid …

Subjects: Copyright, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

Google Transit Trip Planner Expands to Include 5 More Cities

Google Transit Trip Planner allows “commuters to find the fastest and most effective way to get around the city using public transportation….we’ve added five more cities to our coverage: Eugene, Oregon; Honolulu, Hawaii; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Seattle, Washington and Tampa, Florida.”

Subjects: Search Engines

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