Search Engines & Research Tools

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

Old Articles: <Older 3771-3780 Newer>

InternetNews February 2, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Forward Slash Led to Massive Google Glitch Questions arise about how a little forward slash led to a bogus Web-wide security warning over the weekend.
Searcher February 2009 Stephen Fadel	A Searcher's Journey Through a Morass: Researching the Financial Crisis The economy during the past few months has been changing fast. Those maintaining information guides on the crisis will need to monitor changes in the crisis and add and remove resources when appropriate.
Searcher February 2009 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Downs and Ups of Fear Librarians, libraries, and their vendors should join to create tools that can help people everywhere survive the hard times and get the recovery going.
Science News February 14, 2009 Sid Perkins	Book Review: Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum By Richard Fortey Museums are more than collections of art and artifacts: They're collections of the people who work there.
Information Today January 29, 2009 Marydee Ojala	LibraryThing Finds a `CIGnificant' Other Cambridge Information Group, the family-owned management and investment company that owns ProQuest, Dialog, AquaBrowser, Syndetic Solutions, and Bowker, has acquired a minority interest in LibraryThing
Information Today January 29, 2009	ebrary Gets a New UI and Greater Functionality Among other new features, ebrary's user interface offers chapter ranking of search results, QuickView for instant document viewing in a browser, and personalized bookshelves with folders for organizing and managing documents
Information Today January 29, 2009	Ex Libris Announces bX Web 2.0 Usage-Based Scholarly Recommendation Services Ex Libris bX, a first-of-its-kind service, will provide library users with article-level recommendations based on collective usage data amassed from research communities around the world.
Information Today January 29, 2009	EBSCO Publishing Acquires Reference Publisher Salem Press This is a natural extension of a longtime relationship, as Salem Press content has been a mainstay in EBSCO database offerings for many years, including various Magill products and the Masterplots series.
Search Engine Watch January 28, 2009 Kevin Ryan	Yahoo's New Era I didn't see the outpouring of joy for Yahoo's new chief executive. The lack of enthusiasm I've seen for Carol Bartz (among the digerati) is disappointing.
Search Engine Watch January 27, 2009 Aaron Shear	Breaking the Norm with Search One untapped way to capture search traffic is to combine content of related items in new ways. Many engines, especially Google, are looking for uncommon combinations of content that typically don't exist together.
<Older 3771-3780 Newer> Return to current articles.