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Press release from McAfee, Inc.: “…Foundstone Professional Services, a division of McAfee, has released SiteDigger 2.0, a security tool designed to help companies identify information that has been made available on the Web. The Foundstone SiteDigger 2.0 tool uses indexed search information at Google to quickly pinpoint human error information vulnerabilities that appear on search …
Press release: Technology experts and scholars foresee a bigger role for the internet in people’s personal and work lives in the next decade: “The Future of the Internet: A wide-ranging survey of technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and analysts finds that most internet experts expect attacks on the network infrastructure in the coming decade as …
CBS News 60 Minutes, January 2, 2005: Defining Google: “What began as a school project is now worth about as much as Ford and General Motors combined, thanks to a stock that has roughly doubled in price since the company went public last August. And for the first time since then, Google has opened its …
Pandia Search Central (which features as a logo my favorite Leonardo da Vinci portrait, Dama con l’Ermellino) has launched a very useful tool for researchers, Pandia Search Engine Topic Search, powered by Gigablast – “Use this search form to search the best search engine oriented sites, blogs and forums on the Web.” See also the …
“Goebel Group, Inc. a leading integrator of search technology products and services…released the first comprehensive matrix detailing and comparing the status of technologies and other features of the industry’s current and future Desktop Search applications… The matrix includes versions and searchable document types of the industries leading Desktop Search Applications…” (including AOL, Autonomy, Ask Jeeves, …
James Fallows reviews cutting edge work underway in the area of desktop search applications, with a focus on I.B.M.’s Unstructured Information Management Architecture Project. “An Unstructured Information Management (UIM) application may be generally characterized as a software system that analyzes large volumes of unstructured information (text, audio, video, images, etc.) to discover, organize and deliver …
Digitizing books: A mountainous task for Google Major collections readied for online, one page at a time.
Whats Next for Google, by Charles H. Ferguson: “Google seeks to become the gatekeeper for not only the public Web but also the “dark” or hidden Web of private databases, dynamically generated pages, controlled-access sites, and Web servers within organizations (estimated to be tens or even hundreds of times larger than the public Web); the …
According to this December 17, 2004 OMB Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on Policies for Federal Agency Public Websites, “The efficient, effective, and appropriately consistent use of Federal agency public websites is important to promote a more citizen centered government.” This memo includes a series of requirements which must be met …
Robert J. Ambrogi highlights 13 websites, launched this past year, that merit your review, including an online legal bookstore, an e-discovery resource, a new meta-search engine, and a collection of historical documents on the civil rights movement.
A thoughtful and provocative commentary on all the hype surrounding Google’s announcement this week, by Michael Gorman, dean of Library Services, California State University, Fresno, and president-elect of the American Library Association, in today’s Los Angeles Times (reg. req’d). See also this related San Francisco Chronicle article, ‘Googleizing’ libraries won’t replace books. In addition, more …
press release: blinkx TV makes hours of TV content fully searchable from your PC What is blinkx TV?: “blinkx TV allows you to search the web for video and audio clips. Unlike other search providers, blinkx TV not only lets you search using standard keyword and Boolean queries but you can also use conceptual search.” …
