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Today’s Wall Street Journal featured a front page article ($), Lawyers’ Delight: Old Web Material Doesn’t Disappear – Wayback Machine and Google Archive Billions of Pages, Including Deleted Ones, which is worth review. It focuses on how old web pages available from the Internet Archive and cached pages from Google can be of particular value …
“What is Podscope? Podscope is the first search engine that actually allows you to search for spoken words within any audio or video file. We’re starting with podcasts and will be adding all types of multimedia in coming months.” Press release: Podscope Search Engine to Index Entire Spoken Podcast Universe; First Spoken Word Index Search …
Another follow-up to groups voicing opposition to Google’s project to digitize major library collections, this time from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), which is “the international trade association for not-for-profit publishers and those who work with them.” The group’s July 11, 2005 “response to Google Print for Libraries digitisation project” (3 …
From the Canadian Globe and Mail, Could Googling become illegal? See C-60, An Act to amend the Copyright Act, specifically Sec. 40.3 (scroll down the page to locate)
“Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to send queries as text messages over your mobile phone or device and easily get precise answers to your questions. No links. No web pages. Just text and the information you’re looking for…local business listings…driving directions…movie showtimes and theater locations of movies currently playing near you…weather conditions …
Press release: Topix.net, the Internet’s largest resource for online news with over 300,000 news channels, announced today that it has expanded its product offering to include a new dedicated news channel for Canada and local news for over 4,200 Canadian cities and towns – the first in a series of initiatives to bring local news …
OCLC Data Mining Projects: “…Internet giants such as Amazon and Google provide valuable lessons on the importance of squeezing the full value from available data. Whether in the form of book recommendations, search result rankings, targeted advertising, or collection views (e.g., Google Scholar), the “Amazoogle” companies make a concerted effort to release as much value …
Press release today: “Mamma.com Inc….today announced the beta release of its innovative Health Search… [the] technology does more than aggregate results from various content providers [WebMD, MedLine Plus, HealthAtoZ, MayClinic.com, MedicineNet.com, NHSDirect Online] for medical information; we crawl deep into the websites of certain handpicked, trusted, medical websites to extract and format results in a …
Following are links to several related documents worth reviewing on the Google Library Project to digitize the entire collections of participating libraries. Google Library: Peril for Publishers? Michigan Digitization Project Brief Overview (12/13/04) PDF Format Cooperative Agreement between the University Library and Google (PDF Format) Sample Titles Googles Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and …
“Yahoo! Search Subscriptions beta is a new way to search the subscription content that’s important to you. By partnering with publishers, Yahoo! is providing the convenience of a single place to access and find all relevant content, whether it’s generally available web content or content from your personal subscriptions.” [FAQ] “You can search subscription content …
“Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which …
Reuters reports, via CNN, Google’s long memory stirs privacy concerns.
