Search Engines & Research Tools

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InternetNews January 20, 2005 Colin C. Haley	AOL Refreshes Search Services The Internet giant looks to capitalize on rising interest in the technology from users and advertisers.
Search Engine Watch January 20, 2005 Chris Sherman Gary Price	AOL Search: Playing In the Big Leagues Now AOL is rolling out several enhancements to its core search functionality that position it as a clear contender in the battle for eyeballs between Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search.
InternetNews January 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Search Leaders, Bloggers Band to Fight Comment Spam Industry group says it will support Google's 'no-follow' tag that tells search engine spiders to lay off links.
Information Today January 17, 2005 Barbara Quint	Answers.com Turns GuruNet Free The digital reference service GuruNet Corp. has switched from a subscription fee business model to an advertiser revenue model with its launch of the free Answers.com service.
D-Lib January 2005 Bonita Wilson	User-Centered Design It is of the utmost importance to keep users foremost in mind when developing tools or designing interfaces for digital libraries.
D-Lib January 2005 Fox, Manduca & Iverson	Building Educational Portals atop Digital Libraries The Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) educational portals leverage the techniques and tools of the digital library community to bring cohesion and clarity to their presentation of information.
D-Lib January 2005 Johan Bollen et al.	Trend Analysis of the Digital Library Community D-Lib Magazine constitutes an attractive corpus for detecting trends: publications are characterized by a low publication latency, it is published monthly, and its focus is on summary and "awareness" types of articles.
D-Lib January 2005 Foster & Gibbons	Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories The availability of open-source institutional repository (IR) systems has encouraged a proliferation of IRs worldwide, particularly among academic and research institutions. Installing the software, however, is just the first step towards a successful IR.
D-Lib January 2005 David S. H. Rosenthal et al.	Transparent Format Migration of Preserved Web Content The design of digital preservation systems must anticipate obsolescence, and incorporate a strategy by which the content they preserve will still be understood by readers after multiple generations of formats have become obsolete.
D-Lib January 2005 Chris Petersen	Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond: A Documentary History In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Linus Pauling's receipt of the Nobel Prize for chemistry, awarded for his work on the nature of the chemical bond, the Oregon State University Libraries have launched a digital library which is devoted to Pauling's epic achievement.
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