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Can Our Culture Be Saved? The Future of Digital Archiving, by Diane Leeheer Zimmerman, New York University – School of Law, July 25, 2006 “This article steps behind the Google Library controversy to examine in depth what the enormous public benefits that would flow from allowing a broad right of digitization for preservation purposes, and …
Technology Review: Surprising Search Patterns – A new study questions the common assumption that search engines control the hierarchy of the Internet. Topical interests and the mitigation of search engine bias, by S. Fortunato , A. Flammini, F. Menczer, and A. Vespignani, School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47406; Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, …
Press release: The University of California libraries today (August 9, 2006) announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. UC becomes the latest partner in the Google Books Library Project, which was launched in December 2004 to digitize books drawn from the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford …
StopBadware.org Blog: “We’re entering a new phase here at StopBadware.org. Googlewhich is one of our partnerswill present people with a warning before they visit websites that have been reported to StopBadware.org as sites that distribute badware. These warnings currently link to a general page on StopBadware.org, but as we finish researching sites, we’ll replace the …
Joining more than a dozen product blogs, Yahoo launched a corporate blog on August 1: “We want to share insights into our company, our people, our culture, and the things that occupy our cluttered minds. Well cover emerging trends, provide some behind-the-scenes commentary, profile interesting Yahoos, spotlight our beloved users…”
About Google Trends: “With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and which geographic regions have searched for them …
Press release: “…FirstGov.gov, the official portal of the U.S. Government, has won the Pioneer Award from Federal Computer Week and the Government Solutions Center (GSC) for its “innovative use of technology in a government program.” See also Peggy Garvin’s article, The Government Domain: FirstGov becomes First in Government Search
Press release: “Amnesty International (AI) today released a new report, “Undermining Freedom of Expression in China,” (32 pages, PDF) exposing how Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google have violated their stated corporate values and policies in pursuit of the potentially lucrative Chinese market. In sync with the report release, the organization unveiled irrepressible.info, a new campaign for …
Fom Google Labs, Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged: “In addition to finding the most relevant results as measured by Google’s search algorithms, it further sorts results based on the simplicity of their page layouts.” Accessible Search FAQ Google Tests Accessible Search Page
From Tara Calishain: “This page allows you to search Googles government search engine and narrow your results by a state. Try adding a city or county name to your query as well.” See also Peggy Garvin’s review of U.S. Government Search on LLRX.com.
New York Times: A Search Engine That’s Becoming an Inventor
Press release: “Google Inc. today announced the launch of Google Checkout, a checkout process that makes online shopping faster, more convenient and more secure for Google users. Google Checkout offers an easy and trusted checkout option that enables shoppers to purchase from participating stores with a single Google login.” More information on this Official Google …
