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Mindset: “A Yahoo! Research Labs demo that applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources).” FAQ about the demo Related news: New Search Stars – …
The Google Print program now has its own homepage, Discover and browse printed material online. [Google Blogoscoped] See also this May 23 posting, Publishers Express Continued Concerns With Google Print for Libraries Program.
One of today’s WSJ free features: Sky-High Search Wars – Microsoft, Google Vie to Offer Best Aerial Views of Earth See also this press release: “Pictometry Selected by Microsoft to Provide Unique Aerial Images for MSN Virtual Earth
From BusinessWeek.com, A Google Project Pains Publishers – The major presses are raising thorny legal issues with the search giant’s initiative to digitize the books of the world’s great libraries. “In [this] letter, the Association of American University Presses’ Peter Givler takes issue with Google’s Print for Libraries program.” [Link] See also related postings on …
On May 19, there was a Google Factory Tour, for which there are accompanying screen shots and a webcast. Details of the information presented include this posting about Google Machine Translation Systems, A Guided Tour of Google’s Personalized Home Page, and ‘Google Earth’ Ready to Travel the World.
Today Google Labs released Google’s New Personalized Homepage. It currently allows you to choose from among a discrete range of sources (gmail; news from Google, New York Times, BBC, Wired, Slashdot; weather; driving instructions; maps) for display on your homepage. Features will be expanded to include feeds from more sites. (Note: you need a Google …
“Google Desktop Search for Enterprise helps you easily manage the ever-growing mountain of information located on your computers and includes key standards-based administrator features that provide enhanced security, centralized configuration and easy company-wide deployment. Perhaps best of allit’s free.” Related references from Internetnews.com and InfoWorld. See also this article, Which Is the Best Desktop Search …
Missing Pieces: A Study of First Page Web Search Engine Results Overlap “A comprehensive study conducted by metasearch engine Dogpile.com in collaboration with researchers from The University of Pittsburgh and The Pennsylvania State University has found that page one results returned by leading single engines Google, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves differ substantially from one another. …
Yahoo! Video Search 1.0 was released today, after being in beta. See also the Advanced Video Search Preferences. From the Yahoo Search Blog: “We’ve partnered up with some major content publishers to fortify our content offering, including MTV, Buena Vista (including the latest clips and trailers for The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy), CBS News, …
“Google Web Accelerator (beta) is an application that uses the power of Google’s global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before. Please note that …
The Infinite Library, by Wade Roush, May 2005 issue of TechnologyReview.com. Related reference: European libraries join forces against Google
Google Personal-Search Tracker Raises Privacy Concerns My Search History (Beta) My Search History (Beta) Help Search and My History Shall Find (InternetNews.com)
