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From the March 2004 issue of Technology Review (reg. req’d), Search Beyond Google “takes a look at the technologies fueling more than 550 million search requests entered every day worldwide — and what’s coming down the pike to potentially replace them.”
The Vivisimo eBay search tool provides users with search results clustered according to the following categories: “auction titles and descriptions, price ranges, time left, and number of bids on item.”
A new Forrester Brief (reg. req’d) referenced in this New Zealand Business Review article states that the valuation of Google, in anticipation of its anticipated IPO this spring, has been estimated to be in the area of $15 billion, a significant overestimation according to Forrester CEO George F. Colony.
An article in today’s Washington Post focuses on the growing volume of sensitive personal data, aggregated on commercial, corporate, academic and government websites, that is accessible via search engines. Mistakes that result from inexpert programming, server vulnerabilities and configuration related issues facilitate the compromise of personal data, the results of which are chronicled with growing …
How to Do Everything With Google, by Fritz Schneider, Eric Fredricksen, Nancy Blachman Google ~Guide: “This online Google tutorial will occupy you from 0.5 to 8 hours, depending on how many sections you elect to skip, and how many of the examples and problems you work through. Most people spend about half an hour at …
Audit Results Move Google a Step Closer to Offering
Read the following articles in the new issue of LLRX.com: West Publishing Fires and Sues FindLaw Co-Founder Tim Stanley Public Libraries and the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA): Legal Sources Electronic Guide to the Best Mexican Law Websites Doing Legal Research in Canada – Updated Metaforix@Health: Healthcare, Online and Off Burney’s Gadgets for Legal Pros …
In PCWorld’s February 2004 issue, the articleWeb Stars: Best of the Web includes search engines (winners are Google, Dogpile and AllTheWeb), Blog Sites & Aggregator Tools (winners include Feedster, Memigo, and SharpReader).
A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services by Martha L. Brogan, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington DC, December 2003. From the Executive Summary: “This reports provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters and then evaluates them more …
Google’s new search features include: airline tracking by flight numbers and Search by Number, and includes UPS tracking numbers, FedEx tracking numbers, USPS tracking numbers, Vehicle ID (VIN) numbers, UPC codes, Telephone area codes, Patent numbers, FAA airplane registration numbers and FCC equipment IDs. Via Google Blogoscoped.
Yahoo Gets Set to Give Google Run for Money. The search engine competition is prepared to heat-up in 2004 with the hyping of a Google IPO, and rival Yahoo is reportedly planning their own enhancements in the arenas of paid inclusion and search features.
From AP, news on search engine alternatives to the ubiquitous Google, with features of interest to researchers. See Vivisimo and Grokker. See also this BBC article, “Technology analyst Bill Thompson wonders why he cannot stay away from Google, even though he has his doubts about it.”[Link]
