Search Engines & Research Tools

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InternetNews March 24, 2009 David Needle	Endeca Targets Faster Enterprise Search McKinley platform exploits faster, multi-core hardware and is more customizable.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Believe in Baidu Again China's top search engine receives another timely dose of analyst praise.
Information Today March 23, 2009 Paula J. Hane	New FT Search Engine Lets Business Users Sift for News Semantic technologies have been increasingly featured in the news in the past year, promising to provide the contextual relationships and meaning that traditional keyword search engines lack.
Information Today March 23, 2009	ACRL Issues New Strategic Thinking Guide for Academic Librarians The guide considers three important drivers in the current environment and poses questions to stimulate conversations and action in academic libraries and on campuses.
Information Today March 23, 2009	Bibliotheca Announces "On-the-Fly" RFID Conversion Software The software helps unburden libraries from the amount of time, labor, and cost needed to convert entire collections from bar codes to RFID.
Information Today March 19, 2009 Irene E. McDermott	Tutor.Com to Help Job Seekers The Adult Learning Center will be aimed at helping job seekers write effective resumes and cover letters to help the nation get back to work.
Information Today March 19, 2009	Project MUSE Expands Author Discovery Feature MUSE expanded the search to include links to more works by the author in Google Scholar and OCLC WorldCat.
Information Today March 19, 2009	New Release of dtSearch Product Line dtSearch products can index more than a terabyte of text in a single index. They can also create and simultaneously search an unlimited number of indexes.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 Powell & Paynter	Going Grey? Comparing the OCR Accuracy Levels of Bitonal and Greyscale Images Digitizing newspaper using 8-bit greyscale may improve optical character recognition (OCR).
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 Rose Holley	How Good Can It Get? Analysing and Improving OCR Accuracy in Large Scale Historic Newspaper Digitization Programs This article details the work undertaken by the National Library of Australia Newspaper Digitisation Program on identifying and testing solutions to improve OCR accuracy in large scale newspaper digitisation programs.
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