Web Searching Strategies for Health- Related Data
Magic Search Words-Health: Strategies and Search Tactics to Discover the Best of the Internet. See the book review here.
Category «Search Engines»
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Report on Consumers Lack of Understanding On How Search Engines Work
Consumer Web Watch published a new report, 66 pages in pdf – False Oracles: Consumer Reaction to Learning the Truth About How Search Engines Work Results of an Ethnographic Study. From the abstract: “Many online consumers think of search engines as online tools that help them to quickly find Web sites most relevant to their …
Google Toolbar Adds Pop-Up Blocker and Blogging Tool
The Google Toolbar Beta 2.0 introduced last week includes three major new features: a pop-up ad blocker, a tool that automatically fills-out those ubiquitous web forms requiring personal data, and a “blog this” button to post to a blog. See also the Google Toolbar Beta 2.0 Help Index and the Google Toolbar Frequently Asked Questions.
AlltheWeb Vs. Google – Is there really a contest?
AllTheWeb Now A Better Search Experience Than Google. Includes a summary of features tested.
“Clustering” Search Engine Worth a Review
Vivisimo, co-winner of the 2002 Search Engine Watch award for Best Meta Search Engine, is featured in this new article, CMU (Carnegie Mellon) trio develops Internet search tool that sorts results in helpful clusters. (via Search Engine News). For more information, see the company’s Clustering Engine webpage.
AltaVista Claims World’s Largest Multimedia Index
From the company’s press release: AltaVista’s expanded multimedia index catalogs more than 540 million comprehensive, high-quality image files and approximately 11 million video and audio files, including popular formats such as MP3 and MPEG.
Blogs and Google Ranking
Jerry Lawson’s detailed and informative article on LLRX.com, Web Logs for Lawyers: Lessons from Ernie the Attorney, received a mention in the June 16 MSNBC Weblog Central column.
Grants Awarded for Homeland Security Info Gathering
Vivísimo, Inc. issued this press release today concerning nearly $1 million in grants awarded to the company to “enhance and modify [their] on-the-fly document clustering products to help intelligence analysts easily recognize patterns and identify trends from large amounts of unstructured data in many different languages.”
Librarians/Researchers Question Reliance on Google
The Web, According to Google: “Google has grown so fast that even those who use it religiously have started to worry about the tendency of its huge audience to increasingly regard the site as comprehensive when in reality its compilation of information is anything but…Webmasters are starting to question the opaque rules that Google uses …
Google Search Engine Tips
Getting More From Google: ‘Searching the Web can be a frustrating exercise. Here are some tips and tricks to help you find exactly what you want from the leading search engine.”
Profile of Google In-House Counsel
The National Law Journal profiled Google’s general counsel and vice president for corporate development, David Drummond.
