Search Engines & Research Tools

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

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D-Lib May 2005 Bonita Wilson	The Need for Trust Digital libraries reach their full potential only if individuals and organizations trust that the information held in digital collections is as securely and carefully managed as it is in analog collections.
D-Lib May 2005 Seales & Landon	The Museum and the Media Divide: Building and Using Digital Collections at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena A look at the challenges involved in acquiring, organizing and accessing museum collections to make them meaningfully available within typical budgetary and technical constraints.
D-Lib May 2005 Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox	The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies Consortium The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium reports progress made towards the application of technologies and techniques from computational linguistics, natural language processing, and information retrieval to texts written in Greek, Latin, and Old Norse.
D-Lib May 2005	Influencing User Behavior through Digital Library Design: An Example from the Geosciences A look at how the portal of a digital library can be designed to influence the behavior of its users.
D-Lib May 2005 Malama, Landoni & Wilson	What Readers Want: A Study of E-Fiction Usability Many of the principles for designing the visual components of electronic textbooks can also be applied in the fiction genre.
Search Engine Watch May 12, 2005 Chris Sherman	Dogpile Enhances Meta Search, Offers Comparison Tools Dogpile has redesigned its meta search site and introduced a nifty new utility that visually displays the overlap (or lack thereof) of results from the multiple search engines it queries.
Search Engine Watch May 11, 2005 Chris Sherman	If Search Engines Could Read Your Mind What if a search engine knew exactly what you were thinking, and unerringly provided perfect search results? The idea is not as farfetched as it sounds. 20Q.net, an online version of the child's game "twenty questions," is a good example.
T.H.E. Journal May 2005	Online Tools Allow Distant Students to Collaborate on Research Projects St. Thomas, V.I. and Washington state elementary schools collaborated on a research project using My eCoach Online as the primary medium to share information, post ideas and findings, and develop inquiry projects on water.
InternetNews May 9, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Back After Going Black Internet search giant Google's engine sputtered briefly over the weekend when its Web site blacked-out, leaving millions of visitors looking for answers elsewhere.
Information Today Marydee Ojala	Factiva Expands Its RSS Feed Capabilities in a Deal with NewsGator Factiva customers will have an additional option for receiving results from their "track current awareness" searches: an Enterprise RSS feed via NewsGator online and NewsGator Microsoft Outlook.
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