Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today January 2003 Paula J. Hane	Web Search Trends At Internet Librarian 2002, Danny Sullivan examined what's happening with Web searching tools. He said the past year had not seen huge developments, but rather incremental changes, in our evolving Internet technologies.
Information Today January 2003 Marydee Ojala	Search Strategies and Information Professionalism During Internet Librarian's track on search strategies, Chris Sherman explained the nuances of Google, including various field-searching syntaxes and special features. Other presentations covered blogs, difficult reference questions, and misleading hate sites.
Information Today January 2003 Kathy Dempsey	Digital Rights Management Track DRM (digital rights management) is a deep topic that even a whole day's worthof presentations couldn't completely demystify. The fact that there's no widely agreed-upon definition is further complicated by the idea that DRM solutions must serve so many people's interests.
Information Today January 2003 Hugh McKellar	The New Business Intelligence You'll be hearing the term UDM (unstructured data management) a lot over the next 12 months, as companies previously associated with search, taxonomy development, and categorization software bring analytic capabilities to their solutions.
Information Today January 2003 Terri Koenig	Forrest Sawyer's Opening Keynote Sawyer is chairman and co-founder of Sawyer Media Systems, a company whose products are designed to help enterprises use rich media effectively. He demonstrated his KM knowledge by explaining chaos theory, complexity theory, and emergence. He then related these ideas to the Internet.
Information Today January 2003 Robin Peek	ASIST 2002 Annual Meeting "Information, Connections, and Community" was the theme of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 2002 annual meeting, which included presentations on information retrieval, bibliometics, knowledge management, scholarly publishing, and social issues.
Searcher January 2003 David Mattison	Counting Heads Around the World The Genealogy of international Census Databases, Part II: Canada
Searcher January 2003 Jessamyn West	Google Answers Back Or How to Become an Ex Google Answers Researcher
Searcher January 2003 Barbara Quint	The Chain of Demand There are only three kinds of information -- good, fast, and cheap. And though the Internet and the Web can provide all three simultaneously, they do not always do so.
Information Today December 20, 2002 Quint & Hane	divine Library Services Financial Collapse Traps Library Subscription Budgets One of the nation's largest subscription agents, divine Library Services, has apparently suffered financial failure. The Massachusetts-based subsidiary of divine, Inc. is also referred to by many as RoweCom or Faxon, its former names.
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