Search Engines & Research Tools

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

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D-Lib February 2006	A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive As digital libraries expand, we can look forward to a day when humanities and social science scholars replace much of the tedious manual effort with computer programs. Here is a description of a library that is being built for such research.
D-Lib February 2006 Smith et al.	Observed Web Robot Behavior on Decaying Web Subsites A description of the observed crawling patterns of various search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, as they traverse a series of web subsites whose contents decay at predetermined rates.
InternetNews February 14, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Vodafone Adds Google Search Vodafone announced that it's working with Google to develop mobile search services for its subscribers.
InternetNews February 14, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Buddies Up With BearingPoint Technology consulting firm BearingPoint launched a new enterprise search practice centered around the Google Search Appliance.
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates	Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas.
InternetNews February 13, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Buys MotionBridge The acquisition of mobile search provider MotionBridge will help take Windows Live mobile.
Information Today February 13, 2006 Miriam A. Drake	University of Michigan President Distresses Scholarly Publishers Mary Sue Coleman delivered an address that concerned the Google Book Library Project at the University of Michigan and issues related to copyright, preservation, and providing public access to knowledge.
Information Today February 13, 2006	Weekly News Digest Harvard Announces New Online Video Library... SpringCM Offers Content Management On Demand... LexisNexis Launches Toolbar for Lexis.com Subscribers... etc.
InternetNews February 13, 2006 Roy Mark	Yahoo's 'Openness and Reform' China Defense Prepping for a likely hostile House hearing Wednesday, Yahoo defends its cooperation with Beijing.
Search Engine Watch February 13, 2006 Gary Price	Gracenote: A Ubiquitous Music Database The Gracenote Media Database is a huge online database of audio information.
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