Search Engines & Research Tools

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

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D-Lib December 2003	Discovering Lewis and Clark Discovering Lewis & Clark is an interactive online collection that gathers and provides access to a wealth of information about the Lewis and Clark expedition, including preparations for the expedition and details of its immediate aftermath.
D-Lib December 2003 Stuart A. Sutton	Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians Priscilla Caplan's book Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians is extremely worthwhile reading -- particularly so for the librarian or student of librarianship wanting to get a solid, high-level view of the metadata landscape.
Search Engine Watch December 11, 2003 Chris Sherman	A Basket of Shopping Search Services A roundup of other shopping search services worthy of your attention, with links to notable shopping search articles from the past year.
Information Today December 8, 2003 Paula J. Hane	Northern Light Is Sailing Back into Business Research Northern Light, the company named for the innovative 19th century clipper ship, has announced it is bringing back its business Web search engine and the premium document library on Jan. 15, 2004, for enterprise customers.
Information Today December 8, 2003 Barbara Quint	HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type.
Search Engine Watch December 8, 2003 Chris Sherman	Shopping Search Week Shopping search has grown up. Once simple product search and price comparison engines now offer sophisticated tools designed to assist with all aspects of the shopping cycle.
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan	What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change.
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Google Dance Case Studies Real life stories of how sites were impacted by the recent Google ranking changes, with an analysis of factors that may be in play.
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan	What Happened To My Searches On Google? Many webmasters have found that recent changes at Google have hurt them. But does all the hue and cry over Google's recent algorithm change have any impact on searchers? There are some developments worth noting, and this article takes a Q&A approach to examine them.
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2003 Greg Jarboe	Meta Search Engines are Back It's been a busy year for the major meta search engines, with a number of notable developments that have restored their usefulness as worthy search tools.
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