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From the Official Google Blog: “Today we’re launching a feature of Google Scholar which will make it easier for researchers to keep up with recent research…It’s not just a plain sort by date, but rather we try to rank recent papers the way researchers do, by looking at the prominence of the author’s and journal’s …
From Microsoft Research, Photo2Search: Explore the Real World via Camera Phone “Seeking information about something seen, a user takes a photo of the object and sends the photo, via e-mail or Multimedia Messaging Service, to a Web-based server, which searches an image database for matches. The server then delivers database informationwhether it be a Web …
Press release: “The iProspect Search Engine User Behavior Study reveals that 62% of search engine users click on a search result within the first page of results, and a full 90% of users click on a result within the first three pages of search results. These figures were just 48% and 81%, respectively, in 2002.” …
“Windows Live Academic is now in beta. We currently index content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas. Academic search enables you to search for peer reviewed journal articles contained in journal publisher portals and on the web in locations like citeseer. Academic search works with libraries and institutions to search …
http://pixsy.com/ A picture can be worth a thousand words, but an RSS feed is worth a million pictures. That’s the virtual promise of Pixsy, a visual search engine that scours syndication feeds (in the format of Really Simple Syndication) for up-to-date images and then makes them searchable. On Tuesday, the company will relaunch its engine …
As previously noted in a series of postings this year, DOJ has sought, and obtained, voluminous data search records from companies including Yahoo, MSN and Verizon. Today, InformationWeek reported that their FOIA request yielded 54 documents [made available in a Zip archive], that include subpoenas, replies, and related legal documents involving 34 ISPs, search companies …
Newsweek: Why Privacy Won’t Matter Google, Yahoo and Microsoft desperately want to know every last thing about what you do, say and buy. Here’s how they’ll do itand why we’ll let them.
New York Times Op-Ed, March 26, 2006: Searching for Dummies, by Edward Tenner.
According to the Official Google Blog, Google’s newly released Finance service is in beta, with additional content and features to be added in future. Currently, users are offered data in the following categories: Market Summary, Today’s Headlines, Company Facts and Financials, Related company data, a Company Summary, Management info, blog posts and links to topical …
Google launches its challenge to financial news websites in US: “Google Finance is trumpeting features that will allow users to monitor their portfolio and get access to chief executives’ pay details without wading through annual reports.”
Wikipedia has published an extensive comparison of over two dozen web browsers. Included is information on each respective browser’s general history, features, operating system support, web technology support, languages in which the brower is available, and technical vulnerabilities. Readers note that all data is subject to verification, as this is a collaborative, open source publication.
ComputerWorld reports on enterprisewide search applications implemented by large corporations for a range of tasks, including competitive intelligence, e-discovery, and generating intranet content. Solutions such as FAST, Autonomy and Endeca index formats including text, audio and video.
