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Information Today
August 2009
Barbara Quint |
Feature: Where Have All the Archives Gone? What are libraries getting for their precious and shrinking institutional dollars? The most interesting factor is what they are not getting, and all too often, that is a complete archive of online publications, including newspapers.   |
InternetNews
July 2, 2009
David Needle |
Bing Brings Twitter Into the Mix Microsoft dabbles in real-time search, announcing that Bing will search some of Twitter. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2009
Stephanie Bianchi |
Peerless Pathways to Find Peer Reviewers A workshop was offered to all new program officers at NSF on how to use standard library resources to quickly and easily find and evaluate possible peer reviewers, even if the subject area was unfamiliar. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2009
Marydee Ojala |
Transforming Information Quality Information professionals are devoted to finding quality information. No one doubts that. We high-mindedly point to peer review, value-added indexing, and sophisticated search strategies as guarantors of quality. |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2009
Nancy K. Herther |
Grantsmanship: Information Resources to Help Researchers Get Funding There are actually many different types of support available to researchers |
Searcher
August 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Money Searching Have info pros become a niche profession, restricted to collectors of odd services -- like personal valets or nannies? |
Search Engine Watch
June 26, 2009
Gregg Stewart |
Bing -- Early Estimations in Local Search It's way too early to say Bing is a success, but initial trials are favorable. Where Bing could shine is in local search, a relatively untapped revenue source and a fragmented marketplace. |
The Motley Fool
June 26, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Has Something to Say The search-engine giant is rolling out new services again. |
The Motley Fool
June 25, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google Too Blue for Red China? Google is showing too much skin for China's comfort. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Fred Vogelstein |
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet -- and Keep Google Out Today, the Google-Facebook rivalry isn't just going strong, it has evolved into a full-blown battle over the future of the Internet -- its structure, design, and utility. |
Chemistry World
June 22, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
ACS compress print journals to favor online While changing habits among students and researchers have meant that online resources are increasingly popular, old-fashioned print journals are likely to linger for at least some time yet |
InternetNews
June 19, 2009
Stuart J. Johnston |
Ballmer: Microsoft May Spend Billions on Bing Microsoft's CEO tells a crowd in Chicago that the company is in online search for the long haul. |
Search Engine Watch
June 19, 2009
Joshua Palau |
Bing: The Agency Perspective It's true that Bing has low market share and likely won't put a dent in Google at this time. But we need to get back to some fundamentals and think about what it could mean for the future of online marketing. |
Wired
Nicholas Thompson |
And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov't Info Online The Obama administration's most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place. |
InternetNews
June 18, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Who's Really Winning the Search Race? While Google continues to dominate in search market share and volume, social media sites are the only properties showing positive growth, according to comScore's numbers comparing May to April. |
InternetNews
June 18, 2009
Stuart J. Johnston |
ComScore Gives Bing's Second Week Thumbs Up Gains are small but Microsoft's Bing may be slowly clawing its way up towards competitors Yahoo and Google. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Alarm Bells Ring Over Bing Microsoft is turning heads in search, as it's new Bing search engine continues to grow its audience. |
InternetNews
June 17, 2009
David Needle |
Search Heavyweights Debate What's Next Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others focus on advances in semantic search and how results can be made more effective. |
Information Today
June 2009
Dick Kaser |
Editorial: Bridging the Past The Special Libraries Association is "celebrating 100 years of learning, sharing and promoting the value of information" this month. |
Search Engine Watch
June 11, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
Can Bing Really Bring It for PPC Advertisers? Advertisers want to know if Bing can really provide a new experience for searchers, or if it's just Live.com with a cooler name. |
Search Engine Watch
June 9, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Are PPC Ads Now Counting in Google Organic Backlinks? In the past, I've said there's no direct correlation between editorial rankings and paid advertisements. Well, it seems I was wrong. Paid search really can affect organic search. |
Search Engine Watch
June 8, 2009
Ron Jones |
Video Search 101, Part 2 Last time, we looked at keyword research, tips on video production, and landing pages for video search. Today, we'll look at distribution and keyword placement and tracking/analytics. |
Search Engine Watch
June 1, 2009
Ron Jones |
Video Search 101, Part 1 With Internet video on the rise and the search engines looking more favorably on video content, there's an opportunity to leverage this medium for your SEO efforts. We'll focus on five steps for optimizing for video search, many which run parallel to traditional SEO best practices. |
Searcher
June 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Stormy Seas and Piracy Some idea you come up with could bring Silicon Valley's venture capitalists back from the roof edge on a dangerously tall building. Even if it just readies you for "daily bread" options, rather than Amazon.com-scale opportunities, that bread might have garlic butter on it. |
Searcher
June 2009
Irene E. McDermott |
The Internet Express Free tools for job seekers |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Guy Gugliotta |
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules The h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist. |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Steven Levy |
Steven Levy on the Answer Engine, a Radical New Formula for Web Search The home page is nearly blank. At the center, just below a colorful logo, you'll find an empty data field. Type in a phrase, hit Return, and knowledge appears. No, it's not Google. It's Wolfram|Alpha |
ARTnews
June 2009
Robin Cembalest |
Reshaping the Art Museum Confronted with urgent demographic realities, art-museum directors are drawing on game theory, interactive technology, and a host of other new strategies to help people feel welcome, engaged, and emotionally fulfilled |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2009
Cybele Elaine Werts |
Conference Swag, Goodies, Tchotchkes, and Collateral Materials: Marketing Information, Services, and Products Companies exhibiting at SLA invest in giveaways to effectively market their products. Does it work? |
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