Search Engines & Research Tools

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Science News July 9, 2005 Ivars Peterson	Name Voyager Several Web sites offer name tracking and history flow in a variety of forms for expectant parents and researchers alike.
InternetNews July 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Is Google Shutting Out The Blind? The search leader is not currently user-friendly for the blind. MSN and Yahoo have better solutions, though if a user is both blind and deaf, it poses a problem.
InternetNews July 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Yahoo Expands Mobile Search Options SMS search and product comparisons aim to help mobile users find information while on the move.
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Google's Magic Carpet Ride Using Google Earth, you can fly anywhere on the globe and zoom quickly from an outer-space view to a close-up that shows skylights, swimming pools, and individual cars on roads.
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 Ben Elgin	Google's Leap May Slow Rivals' Growth MSN and Yahoo! face new challenges as their share of the search engine market falls, but they are offering new search features to remain competitive.
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 MacKenzie Smith	External Bits How can we preserve digital files and save our collective memory? The open-source DSpace project sees not only the problem of preserving the data, but also making it readable, playable or watchable many years later.
Search Engine Watch July 6, 2005 Phil Robinson	The State of Search in Europe At the "European Search Landscape" panel, Google, MSN and Yahoo each presented their vision of how search will develop.
Information Today July 5, 2005 Paula J. Hane	CSA Launches MultiSearch MultiSearch is a quality search solution for libraries. The solution can work with many different servers, gateways, interfaces, databases, and search result types.
Information Today July 5, 2005 Barbara Quint	OCLC Pilots Traditional Libraries into Web Services The library service has become more active on the Internet in an effort to make users aware of library holdings and offerings.
Information Today July 5, 2005	Weekly News Digest LexisNexis Headnotes has become integrated with Shepard's Reports to provide a more complete court case viewing service... Project MUSE, which provides online scholarly journals in the Arts, has signed up more than 20 journals for 2006... etc.
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