Search Full Text Archive of State of the Union Addresses
From askSam, a searchable version of the full text of all of the State of the Union Addresses from 1790-2005.
Category «Search Engines»
Guide to Website Reliability
Beyond Algorithms: A Librarian’s Guide to Finding Web Sites You Can Trust, by Karen G. Schneider, a librarian and writer, who is Director of Librarians’ Internet Index (LII).
New on LLRX.com
The January 15, 2006 issue of LLRX.com includes the following articles: Deep Web Research Research 2006, by Marcus P. Zillman The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate, by Jonathan Band Researching Laws and Information on Nutritional and Dietary Supplements On the Web, by Joel Rothman Election Law @ Moritz, by Sara Sampson Adobe’s Macromedia Studio …
Google Fights DOJ Order to Produce Records of Database Searches
MercuryNews.com, Feds after Google data: “The Mountain View-based search and advertising giant opposes releasing the information on a variety of grounds, saying it would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets, according to court documents. Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government’s …
Mobile Google Personalized Webpage
“Your Google personalized homepage puts the information you care about on one web page — and now you can access that page on your mobile phone or device, in a phone-friendly format that’s easy to read and navigate.” Personalized Home FAQ
Challenges Posed By Search Engines on E-Commerce Profitability
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, January 9, 2006: Search Engines as Leeches on the Web “Summary: Search engines extract too much of the Web’s value, leaving too little for the websites that actually create the content. Liberation from search dependency is a strategic imperative for both websites and software vendors.”
Citation Database of Scientific and Medical Literature Now Available Free
Press release, January 5, 2006 “Infotrieve, Inc. today announced that it had converted ArticleFinder, its online scientific, technical, and medical (STM) database with more than 26 million citations and eight million abstracts from over 54,000 journals, to a free access model. The move provides scientists and researchers, who work for corporations and are subject …
Google Earth To Limit Views of Sensitive Israeli Sites
Following up on December 19, 2005 posting, Google Satellite Imagery Stirs Security Concerns Here and Abroad, Israel National News reports that the Goggle Earth satellite imagery will now offer users limited resolution of sensitive military installations in the country. Please see this posting from Ogle Earth that adds facts, perspective and context to the above …
Challenges Remain for Google Book Program
Google’s Great Works in Progress – Academics point to content errors in the ongoing Book program, but the search giant says fixes are coming
Yahoo Introduces Time Saving Search Shortcuts
From the Yahoo Search Blog: Open Shortcuts (beta) are custom keywords that take you directly to a site, a search, or start a task right from the search box…To use an Open Shortcut, you type !(exclamation point) followed by the name of the shortcut in the Yahoo! Search box. For example, type: !ebay lamps. This …
New on LLRX.com
A Selected Bibliography on “Sensitive But Unclassified” and Similarly Designated Information Held by the Federal Government, by Sara E. Kelley Wrongful Conviction and Innocence Resources on the Internet, by Ken Strutin Foreign and Transnational Legal Forms, by Mary Rumsey 2005 Holiday Gadget Gift Guides, by Jeff Beard Dennis Kennedy’s Legal Technology Predictions for 2006: Small …
Google Satellite Imagery Stirs Security Concerns Here and Abroad
Google Offers a Bird’s-Eye View, and Some Governments Tremble Google Earth Aerial Images Provided by Leading Search Engines All the Rage
