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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: WebSearch
Online Book Search – the Present and the Future
I have encountered a few interesting items relating to online, full-text books during the past few days, and thought they would make a good snapshot of where things stand at this time: Google Book Search : the Good, the Bad … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged e-book, Flash memory, founder, Google, Luc Vincent, Michael Hart, OCR, Optical Character Recognition, Owen Stephens, Project Gutenberg
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Monopolies, Libraries, and Challenges
A somewhat rambling essay, but one that is important nonetheless: Joe Wilcox has posted an interesting essay at Microsoft Watch regarding Google’s merger with DoubleClick, the internet advertising company. I strongly disagree with some of his interpretations (he tries to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, News, OCLC, WebSearch
Tagged Amazon, compliant web site design, DoubleClick, energy, Google, internet advertising, Joe Wilcox, keyword search, Microsoft, natural language search engines, Search, search tools, Web Design
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Browsing LCSH
Bernhard Eversberg of the Braunschweig University Library (or Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig ) has created a very neat, and very useful online tool : a Library of Congress Subject Headings Browser. Try it out; put in some of your favorite gnarly subject … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Bernhard Eversberg, Braunschweig University Library, Congress, Library of Congress Subject Headings Browser, online tool
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GRDDL
GRDDL, a new recommendation from the W3C, is short for “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages”, a means by which software can extract semantic information from a variety of web pages. In other words, rather than having to rely … Continue reading
LibWorm
LibWorm is a fantastic resource for those who are interested in libraries and blogs. It is a search engine for library-related blog content, drawn from 1400 RSS feeds.
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged search engine
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Google Custom Search Engine
The Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) has just been made easier to set up and use. The brief summary: create a page of links to web resources you feel are useful and appropriate for a given topic. Via Google, you … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Online Services, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, librarian, search engine, search tool, web resources
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Melissa DATA
They’ve been around for a while, but I haven’t blogged about them yet, and they keep adding great features, so here is another great site for finding info related to location: Melissa DATA has links to resources that give you … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Online Services, Statistics, WebSearch
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Google’s Algorithms and the Library Quest
Jonathan Rochkind has an interesting commentary on this New York Times article about Google’s Algorithm titled Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine. I really don’t have much to add, except for the thought that we are too mired in the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, New York Times, search engine
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Pipl
Pipl is a search engine geared towards finding people, but it casts a wider net than other people search tools. It searches social networking sites, job sites, and blogs. As you might guess, there are usually a lot of results … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged search engine, social networking sites, web presence
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Plantfacts
PlantFacts is a resource from the Ohio State University which provides a wealth of information about plants and horticulture through a plant web search, an image database, how-to videos, a collection of over 800 FAQs, and an illustrated glossary. from … Continue reading
Posted in Definitions, Online Databases, Search, WebSearch
Tagged plant web search, the Ohio State University
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Cross Language Web Search
Google Translate has a new feature: it will allow you to search foreign language pages using your language’s search terms, and translates the results on the fly. As with all machine translation, the results will vary; the interface is well … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, librarian, machine translation, search terms, Web Search
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Google Book Search Library Partners
The Google Book Search Library Partners page is a fairly interesting list of those (currently 13) libraries working with Google on the book scanning project. Follow the links for informational pages at each of the libraries, including some actual contracts. … Continue reading
Scribd
Scribd is a new website that is attempting to be like YouTube, but for documents. As in: Word, Pdf, Txt, Html, and so on. Do you have documents that people would find useful or interesting? This could be a means … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged public site, YouTube
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Google: Suggest a Better Translation
It is only set up for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, but Google Translate has developed a nice, social web solution to the problem of awkward translations. from the Official Google Blog
Posted in Google, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Official, social web solution
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Google Scholar Citations
Apparently this has been around for a while, but there is a nifty feature in Google Scholar that is turned off by default. If you follow the Scholar preferences link, you can find an option to export citations into one … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search, WebSearch
Tagged citation management software, Google, librarian
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LibraryFind
Wow… library blog land is abuzz tonight with the release of LibraryFind… and it does look fantastic! It is an open source federated search engine that is fully customizable, and the price is right. Check out the Oregon State University … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Source, Search, Software, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged One Big Library, Oregon State University, search engine
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Google’s Moon Shot
Google’s Moon Shot is the title of an article in the current New Yorker magazine. The title refers to a quote that likens the Google Book Project to Nasa’s Project Apollo. Quite a bit of interest in this article, including … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries, Search, Space, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Moon Shot
Google, Moon Shot
Google, Moon Shot, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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U.S. Schools Search
As part of their real estate search area, Yahoo has debuted a School Search feature that provides information and reports on schools throughout the country. from Search Engine Land
Posted in Education, Maps, Search, WebSearch
Tagged real estate search area, search engine, Yahoo
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Intergovernmental Organizations Search
David Oldenkamp of Indiana University has put together a Google Custom Search (see my post here) called International Documents that searches selected Intergovernmental Organization’s (IGO) web sites. Very handy when you need that type of information. Someone ought to collect … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Libraries, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged David Oldenkamp, Google, Indiana University, Intergovernmental Organization, James Jacobs
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