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From Steven M. Cohen, Keeping Current, Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian Patron Needs. This book comprises five chapters, and focuses primarily on web-based current awareness strategies; resources for staying abreast of advances in search engines techniques and learning about new features; reviews of software for monitoring changes on websites; and how best to leverage …
Google Print (BETA) FAQ: “During this trial, publishers’ content is hosted by Google and is ranked in our search results according to the same technology we use to evaluate websites. On Google Print pages, we provide links to some popular book sellers that may offer the full versions of these publications for sale. Book seller …
As a follow-up to my posting yesterday, Are Paralegal Work and Legal Research Next to Go Offshore? this afternoon Reutersreported that Google will establish an R&D center in India in early 2004.
According to Government Computer News, two Google Seach Appliances have been purchased for use on the government’s intranet for classified information sharing that spans numerous agencies, called Intelink.
In anticipation of widely reported plans for a initial public offering (IPO) in early 2004, Google is seeking a ruling from District Court in San Jose, California to determine whether keyword searches associated with advertising sold by the site constitute trademark infringement. (Google, Inc. v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc. (Complaint) , ND Ca) …
From Google Help: “Google now uses stemming technology. Thus, when appropriate, it will search not only for your search terms, but also for words that are similar to some or all of those terms… Any variants of your terms that were searched for will be highlighted in the snippet of text accompanying each result.” [Search …
Google Viewer: “The Google Viewer displays the pages found as a result of your Google search as a continuous scrolling slide show. You can view your search results without using your keyboard or mouse and you can adjust the speed with which the images move across your screen. Each image of a page’s contents is …
From the December 8 issue of Fortune: Can Google Grow Up? “Google is one of the best things to happen to the Net. So will its IPO, expected this spring, be a must-buy? A look inside reveals a talented company facing trouble.”
Google No. 1 search site in the world according to OneStat.com: “Google’s global usage share has reached an all time high and has risen from 55.2 percent to 56.1 percent.”
Web search alert, Taking shortcuts, by Gwen Harris highlights useful quick and easy features to locate news, directions, weather, definitions, and zip-codes on Yahoo, Google and AllTheWeb.
“Software giant Microsoft is testing its answer to Google’s popular news aggregator and search site. “MSN Newsbot”, on MSN UK, France, Spain and Italy, signals at least one of Microsoft’s intentions as it seeks to build out its own search technology.” [Link]
Google Deskbar: Search using Google without opening your browser: “Access Google from any application by typing Ctrl+Alt+G.” “Use keyboard shortcuts for multiple Google searches, i.e., Google News (Ctrl+N),Google Images (Ctrl+I), or Froogle (Ctrl+F)” See also Google Plops Its Search on the Desktop and Pandia’s The Google Deskbar
