Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib November 2003 Roy Rosenzweig	Center for History and New Media Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University has employed digital media and computer technology to transform the ways that scholars, students, and the general public understand and interpret the past.
Reason November 2003 Jesse Walker	No Strings on Me: Librarians fight filters San Jose's is one of several library systems around the country that say they will refuse Washington's subsidies rather than accept the strings attached to them -- specifically, the requirements of the Children's Internet Protection Act.
Search Engine Watch November 13, 2003 Dick Larkin	Local Search Part 4: Major Search Engines On Yellow Pages Local search is the current hot topic in the industry, but has it really arrived? Executives from Yahoo!, AOL, LookSmart, Terra Lycos and Muller Medien debate the hype vs. reality of local search.
Search Engine Watch November 7, 2003 Chris Sherman	Google's Deskbar A new Google Labs experiment called the Google Deskbar is a search application that lets PC users perform Google searches at any time from any application. Like the HotBot Deskbar, the Google Deskbar is a free software download that appears as a search box in the Windows taskbar.
Linux Journal December 1, 2003 Shawn Garbett	Cross-Platform CD Index CD-ROM content now has a search engine that can run in any browser, straight from static index files.
Search Engine Watch November 6, 2003 Danny Sullivan	The US White House & Blocking Search Engines At the end of last month, controversy erupted over the US White House preventing portions of its web site from being indexed by search engines. Was the White House doing this as a means to rewrite history unnoticed, or was it an innocent mistake?
PC Magazine November 25, 2003	Jump into an Internet Search Decode the URL of your Web search to fast-forward to the end of a results list.
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Surprised Google & Microsoft Talked Takeover? You Shouldn't Be! No one should have been surprised that the companies have talked about a possible purchase. It made sense then. As for now, a more realistic possibility is that the two companies might partner in the short term.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Textbook queries video Researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan, the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (CREST) and the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have found a simple way to improve audio and video searching.
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price	Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching
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