Daily Archives: 4 January 2007

Google adds clustering (but not to websearch)

Posted on 4 January 2007 by Rick Mason

Google’s announcement today: the Google Search Appliance (for indexing and searching on server environments) has just added clustering to the results. It shouldn’t be too long before we see it filtering (ahem) down to the web search realm. Clustering is … Continue reading →

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World E-Book Fair 2007

Posted on 4 January 2007 by Rick Mason

The World E-Book Library is holding an E-Book Fair starting on July 4th, 2007. In the two fairs it held in 2006, it made all of the content in the e-book library available for free for a one-month period. Mark … Continue reading →

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Go FISH

Posted on 4 January 2007 by Rick Mason

As discussed on the Infomancy blog, FISH was their response to the problems inherent in the current state of the OPAC (Online Public-Access Catalog). And their response? FISH (Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler). What’s the difference? Read their … Continue reading →

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