Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today July 23, 2007 Barbara Quint	Open Library Launches with Library as Wiki Service If we all -- librarians, readers, writers, publishers, etc. -- pulled together, could we create an online library that included every book, every journal, every instance of every type of content a traditional library might contain?
Information Today July 23, 2007	House Approves Bill That Mandates NIH Public Access Policy The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a measure directing the NIH to provide free public online access to agency-funded research findings within 12 months of their publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
Information Today July 23, 2007	Thomson Announces Westlaw Business Powered by GSI Westlaw Business powered by GSI features three specialized work centers -- GSI's LIVEDGAR, the new Westlaw Business Securities Center, and the Westlaw Business M&A Center -- on a new integrated platform.
Entrepreneur August 2007 Sara Wilson	Let Your Network Be Your Guide Will throwing human intelligence into the mix help this search company come up first?
BusinessWeek July 30, 2007 Catherine Holahan	Searching For John Q. Public New people-search engines hope to do better than Google in finding the less-than-famous. Spock is one of dozens of niche search companies trying to capture some of the more than $60 billion that is projected to be spent on search marketing over the next four years.
Wired June 26, 2007 Annalee Newitz	Looking High and Low: Who Will Be the Google of Video Search? The Web has gone wacky for video. The problem is search engines can't index video files as easily as text. So the race is on to become the Google of video search. And guess what? It might not be Google
InternetNews July 17, 2007 Clint Boulton	Google Lights Search Path For SMBs Google unveiled Google Custom Search Business Edition, a hosted service that lets small businesses quickly and easily add Google search to their Web sites.
InternetNews July 17, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Spoofing Googlebot Superficially spoofing Googlebot, Google's Web crawler, is not a difficult thing to do and was recently the subject of a very popular post on the Digg site.
D-Lib August 2007 Bonita Wilson	Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis.
D-Lib August 2007 Oya Y. Rieger	Select for Success: Key Principles in Assessing Repository Models As web services become ubiquitous in our digital lives, designing flexible and interoperable repositories is essential in order to meet the evolving needs of users - both from end-user and system/service manager perspectives.
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