Search Engines & Research Tools

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

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ONLINE Jul/Aug 2005 Marydee Ojala	Talk About My Generation Let's not have age wars interfere with the basic mission of the information professional--getting information to the people that need it, when they need it, and in the form they need it. Whatever their generation may be.
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2005 Greg R. Notess	Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus Both Scholar and Scirus have potential for information professionals and end users. At this point, each covers a certain segment of scholarly material, but plenty of problems remain. Other search tools continue to serve the scholarly community better.
InternetNews July 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	AOL Live With Video Search New search product and enhanced video player are part of the move from walled garden to public portal.
InternetNews July 1, 2005 Erin Joyce	Click Here For Inducement Disclaimers The Supreme Court's ruling that P2P technology developers can induce users to steal copyrighted works could be extended to search services that in effect publicize those P2P services.
Searcher July 2005 Laura Gordon-Murnane	Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools Librarians now have a useful tool they can use to help identify content that patrons might want to use in a podcast, a mash-up, a collage, a video contribution to a blog, a document, a presentation, or whatever.
Searcher July 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Elusive Un-Client Now that online information has moved so many of the tasks formerly performed as intermediated searches to end users, professional searchers have the time to pursue new opportunities for service.
Search Engine Watch June 30, 2005 Chris Sherman	What's Cooking in Search Engine Labs Want a peek behind the scenes at the research and development efforts going on at the major search engines? Here's where to find the freshest info.
InternetNews June 29, 2005	Yahoo Search Gets Social Yahoo released a limited beta of My Web 2.0, a search personalization play that uses elements of social media to improve search results.
InternetNews June 29, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Blinkx Adds Podcast Search Blinkx added podcasts and video blogs to the media available to its blinkx.tv search service.
InternetNews June 29, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	With Google, It's Personal Google introduced Personalized Search, a search enhancement that gives users more of what they want by paying attention to what they wanted before.
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