Search Engines & Research Tools

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

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Search Engine Watch July 21, 2004 Christine Churchill	Meet The Crawlers Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines. The general focus for the major search engines continues to be on the user experience.
Information Today July 19, 2004 Paula J. Hane	ProQuest Launches (Next) New Interface The new release introduces ProQuest Smart Search, a technology that taps into the company's indexing to offer suggestions to users. The service also updated advanced browsing, linking and e-mail capabilities.
InternetNews July 14, 2004 Colin C. Haley	HighBeam Stocks Virtual Library Looking to fill the gap between Google and Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam now extracts information from the Columbia Encyclopedia, as well as two dozen other publications like specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, a thesaurus and others.
Technology Research News July 14, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Messenger taps social nets Researchers improve instant messenging to bring those with the questions and those with the answers closer together.
Information Today July 12, 2004 Paula J. Hane	American Psychological Association Launches New Databases Recently, the venerable organization readied several new psychology databases for public view, reloaded PsycINFO, and enhanced its renowned Thesaurus.
Search Engine Watch July 12, 2004 Chris Sherman	A Visual Search Engine for Music Want to find music similar to what you already enjoy? Musicplasma creates intriguing music maps revealing connections between musicians, styles and musical epochs.
PC World August 2004 Tom Spring	Search Tangles Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser.
Search Engine Watch July 7, 2004 Gary Price	Behind the Scenes at Yahoo Labs, Part 3 The head of Yahoo Labs talks about the competition, the challenge of balancing searcher needs with webmaster desires, the future, and the next big thing in web search.
Information Today August 2004 Peter Jacso	Linking on Steroids Insights into the best and worst linking practices from an expert in the scholarly publishing world.
Information Today August 2004 Paula Hane	New Ovid/LWW CEO Brings a Fresh Look An interview with the president and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health's global Medical Research division on the company's initiatives and some industry issues.
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