Search Engines & Research Tools

Magazine articles on search engines, research tools, libraries, and museums.

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Searcher March 2003 Barbara Quint	Our Friend, the Taxman Wicked describes the situation facing many library directors these days as the national economy continues to limp. State and local government officials face severe revenue shortfalls and libraries are getting hit hard.
Searcher March 2003 Irene E. McDermott	Internet in the Air: Internet Librarian 2002 The conference addressed many different issues that confront Internet librarians today.
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Google Acts To Protect Trademark Google's first publicized action to protect its trademark from being transformed into a generic word has occurred.
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing.
Search Engine Watch February 25, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal.
Search Engine Watch February 18, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Overture To Buy AltaVista Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal.
Search Engine Watch February 18, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Singingfish Grows As Multimedia Search Provider A look at how Singingfish has grown to become a major provider of multimedia search results.
Information Today March 3, 2003 Barbara Quint	Overture Acquires Two Major Web Search Engines On Feb. 18, Overture, which claims to be the "world's leading provider of Pay-For-Performance search to Web sites," announced that it had acquired AltaVista, a pioneer Web search engine. A week later, Overture announced that it had acquired all the Web search assets of Norwegian-owned FAST.
Information Today February 27, 2003 Paula J. Hane	divine Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Chicago-based divine, inc. has crumpled, following its two-year run as a tech start-up, aggressively acquiring companies. So, what does this mean for the proposed EBSCO acquisition of divine's RoweCom being negotiated through the bankruptcy court?
Information Today February 24, 2003 Marydee Ojala	Fast Forwarding at Reuters: Reuters Group Announces Losses, Buys Multex At the same time as it reported its financial results, the company announced it was buying Multex.com, Inc., the provider of global financial information.
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