Search Engines & Research Tools

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

Old Articles: <Older 31-40 Newer>

D-Lib January 2000	Clips & Pointers Pointers to information about digital library efforts.
D-Lib January 2000 MacKenzie Smith	DFAS: The Distributed Finding Aid Search System Finding aids are textual documents that describe archival collections. These documents have existed for hundreds of years, and have taken many forms during that time..
D-Lib January 2000 Gail M. Hodge	Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition...
D-Lib January 2000 Adam Chandler, Dan Foley & Alaaeldin M. Hafez	Mapping and Converting Essential Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata into MARC21 and Dublin Core
Search Engine Watch December 6, 1999	Snap Unveils LiveDirectory In the wake of moves by the Open Directory and Go to allow more user participation in constructing their directories, Snap has unveiled a new LiveDirectory system that allows sites to be added within minutes to its guide.
Search Engine Watch December 6, 1999	RealNames Slipping Generics Into Specifics RealNames has had a long-standing and laudable policy of not selling a generic term to any one company. But in the past two months, the company has cut two significant deals that go against this policy, enabling both its partners and RealNames itself great benefits.
Search Engine Watch December 6, 1999	Lycos Changes Listings Format Lycos has altered the format of its search results page, in order to consistently present more information from different sources within the same space.
Search Engine Watch December 6, 1999	Search Engine Lawsuits O'Plenty There's been a lot of legal action revolving around search engines recently, and especially last week. Below is a summary of the various cases.
Search Engine Watch December 6, 1999	Google Loses Virginity But Gains A Virgin And so finally it's come -- advertising on Google. They promised something other than banners when the site came out of beta, and Google delivers on that promise.
D-Lib December 1999	Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend...
<Older 31-40 Newer> Return to current articles.