Search Engines & Research Tools

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PC Magazine May 17, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n10 Google has recently been granted a patent for a voice interface for search engines.
Search Engine Watch May 18, 2006 Chris Sherman	Building the Universal Library What will it take for Google or another search engine to truly assemble a library of all of the world's information? Here is a fascinating look at the challenges.
Search Engine Watch May 17, 2006 Chris Sherman	A Closer Look at Google Notebook Google's new Notebook tool lets you clip text, images or search results and save them in online notebooks that you can share with others. How does Google's new tool stack up against the competition?
Information Today May 15, 2006 Barbara Quint	Whither Google? Report on Google's Press Day Webcast Search, search, and more search is Google's goal. Four new products, all search-oriented, were announced: Google Trends, Google Gadgets, Google Co-op, and Google Notebook.
Information Today May 15, 2006 Barbara Quint	Pick of the Litter: Google Co-op Regardless of the present quality of Google Co-op, the entry of giant Google into the social bookmarking arena, along with Yahoo!, could mark a sea change in the importance and growth of such tools for search giants.
InternetNews May 15, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Snap a Difference in Search? Snap is swimming in search with the big fish, but it says its ideas are enough to stay afloat.
Bio-IT World May 2006 Salvatore Salamone	Get Serious About Information Mining Life science companies have long faced the problem of information silos. In a session on text, data mining, and the Web at last month's Bio-IT World Expo, industry experts talked about some of the challenges and solutions that might help break down silos.
D-Lib May 2006 Apps & McIntyre	Why OpenURL? Here is a look at the evolution of the linking technology OpenURL, now a NISO standard. The implications for stakeholders in the supply chain are explored, including publishers, intermediaries, libraries and readers.
D-Lib May 2006 Arko et al.	Using Annotations to Add Value to a Digital Library for Education Although the value of annotations in digital libraries has long been recognized from a theoretical perspective, annotations are just beginning to demonstrate their practical value to real-world users. In this article, we describe a fully implemented annotation system within the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE).
D-Lib May 2006 Justin Littman	A Technical Approach and Distributed Model for Validation of Digital Objects This article describes the current technical approach for digital object validation used by the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the digitization of historical newspapers.
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