Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today December 2003 Dick Kaser	Intranet Publishers Beware! The ruling in Lowry's vs. Legg Mason should send a warning to everyone who operates the content side of an intranet. As a publisher for your organization, you need to understand and respect copyright law.
Information Today December 2003 Donald T. Hawkins	The ASIDIC Fall 2003 Meeting A report from the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers's Sept. 21-23 event in Montreal.
Fast Company November 2003 Carleen Hawn	Schmoozing with the Enemy How does Google deal with folks who try to trick its search engine? By throwing them a party, of course.
Search Engine Watch October 30, 2003 Avi Rappoport	Google's API: For Fun, Not Profit (Yet) The Google API is a fun way to use Google for things as varied as solving crossword puzzles to creating recipes, but it's not yet ready for prime-time applications.
Search Engine Watch October 28, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Local Search Part 3: Google Gets Local With AdWords Google's new regional targeting feature for its AdWords keyword-based text advertising program lets advertisers target their ads to any of 210 specific local regions in the US.
Information Today October 27, 2003 Barbara Quint	BIOSIS Sold to Thomson Scientific Five months after announcing its search for a partner, Biological Abstracts' board of trustees announced that it had entered final negotiations with Thomson Corp.
Information Today October 27, 2003 Barbara Quint	OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2 million-record subset consisting of the most populare and widely-available books from the more than 53 million records in the database.
Search Engine Watch October 27, 2003 Gary Price	Amazon Debuts New Book Search Tool 'Search Inside the Book' allows you to search the full-text of more than 33 million pages from over 120,000 printed books.
BusinessWeek November 3, 2003 Ben Elgin	Sharpen Your Internet Search All search engines are not equal. Knowing where and how to make your queries can help you avoid ads and get exactly the information you want -- fast.
Search Engine Watch October 24, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Google Buys Sprinks, Plans IPO In a busy financial day for Google, the company purchased Sprinks, the former paid listings division of PRIMEDIA's About.com, while it was also revealed that an initial public offering is planned for early next year.
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