Search Engines & Research Tools

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PC Magazine October 28, 2003	Amazon Opens Up the Books The site is allowing full-text searches and fully viewable pages for 120,000 books.
Search Engine Watch December 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Searching With Invisible Tabs Behind the scenes, search engines will one day automatically push the correct tab for your query and retrieve specialized search results. This should ultimately prove an improvement over the current situation where everything is answered by web page matches.
Information Today December 1, 2003 Marydee Ojala	Happiness and Worry at Online Information 2003 in London, England Is it news that the show continues after 27 years? Possibly it is, particularly in these difficult times.
Information Today December 1, 2003 Barbara Quint	FreePint Launches Subscription Service for Online Searchers Tuesday, Dec. 2, FreePint, the popular U.K.-based provider of news and analysis to information professionals, will launch two subscription services at a new VivaVIP Web site.
Information Today December 1, 2003 Barbara Quint	Inspec Extends its Archive and Introduces New Coverage The London-based Institution of Electrical Engineers, producer of Inspec, one of the first major sci-tech abstracting services to go online, has completed its retrospective coverage from 1968 back to 1898. The file will be available to vendor outlets in 2004 as an XML archival backfile.
Search Engine Watch December 1, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Google Dance Syndrome Strikes Again There's been a new outbreak of Google Dance Syndrome, causing some web sites last month to lose top positions for some search terms. However, unlike previous outbreaks, a cure exists that makes it easy to compare results from old to new Google.
Information Today December 2003 Barbara Quint	The Numbers Racket The bottom line is that the people own the government. The people pay for the government. The people own the information the government collects and the documents it produces. The government owes the people what they have paid for. The Web is the best way to deliver that information.
Information Today December 2003 Paula J. Hane	NewsBreak Update Updates on projects, partnerships, improved services, and more in the information industry
Information Today December 2003 Dick Kaser	The Politics of Open Access The battle of words over how research results should best be distributed heated up again this fall. And once again, the heat was coming from Europe.
Information Today December 2003 Marydee Ojala	Czech-ing Out EUSIDIC It was a small but lively group that gathered in mid-October in Prague, Czech Republic, for the European Association of Information Services' annual conference. With "Building Customer Loyalty: The Branding Imperative" as its theme, the event provided a solid 2 1/2 days of talks and discussion.
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