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ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: WebSearch
FirstGov.gov is now USA.gov
Time to change your links… the site formerly known as FirstGov.gov is now USA.gov. The search page is USASearch.gov. Easier for people to remember, once they get used to the change! from ResourceShelf
Posted in Government, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Governor, search page, United States
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Google adds clustering (but not to websearch)
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
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, search engine, web search realm
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Wikiasari
Take the large number of people who work on Wikipedia and have them evaluate web pages, and what do you get? Wikisauri, a search engine from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. The concept will be that the searches that … Continue reading
Posted in Google, News, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged computer algorithm, founder, Google, search engine, Wales, Wikipedia
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Google Patents
Yes, another Google beta: Google Patents lets you conduct full-text searches of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. What you get is not only the text of the patent, but the patent filing itself. The Advanced Patent Search page … Continue reading
Noesis
Noesis is one of the first Google Co-Op creations I have seen that is more than a “let’s try this out” website. What it does is lets you search for authoritative philosophical resources. If you don’t quite understand why Google … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Google, Libraries, Online Services, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged generic keyword search, Google
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Intute: Virtual Training Suite
It is British, it is online, and it is free. It is Intute: Virtual Training Suite. What Intute is is a collection of web tutorials on a wide, wide range of subjects. Their aim is to give you an overview … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Search, Tutorials, WebSearch
Tagged Britain, online educational offerings, Open University, United States, web tutorials, web-based resources
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Internet Archive exempt from DMCA
According to a press release, the Internet Archive has been granted an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), allowing it to continue archiving web sites, software and such. Hopefully this is the movement towards more reasonable copyright applications … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Internet Archive, Internet Archive exempt, reasonable copyright applications
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Internet Archive times 3
All right then, begin the list: 1) An article spotted in this morning’s paper that offers a great summary for those not familiar with the archive: Content of Dead Sites Lives in Archive . 2) They earned a 2006 Education … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, Video, WebSearch
Tagged Archive, Internet Archive, Internet Archive times
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New features in Google Book Search
Google has updated their interface for reading the books found using Google Book Search. Here is a sample. And another. from Official Google Blog
Searching while writing
An intriguing idea: As you write a paper/essay/whatever software would scan your text for search terms and run those searches, giving you additional sources and ideas as you write. Write While You Search: Ambient Searching of a Digital Library in … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, Software, WebSearch
Tagged paper/essay/whatever software, search terms
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Scary Stories ready to download
With Halloween just around the corner, the best way to set the mood is with a classic scary story. Check out the Google Scary Stories page (a result of the Google Books project) and see the public domain spookiness that … Continue reading
Google Co-op Custom Search Engine
I know, I know… two posts in a row about Google… But you see, they released this new thingamajig called Google Co-op Custom Search Engine that is essentially a do-it-yourself federated search engine creator. One configures it, then copies the … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Online Databases, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged do-it-yourself federated search engine creator, Google, Official, search engine
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Googling Google Googlies! (part 3)
In this post I gave my take on the use of Google as a verb. On the official Google blog, Google’s lawyers give their take. Fairly close… I still think my suggestion would have some great market appeal.
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google
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Google Books and UW Madison
Google and the University of Wisconsin – Madison announced today that they will be partners in the Google Books project. This is getting kind of local… less than 200 miles! from Search Engine Watch
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Madison, search engine, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
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Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory
You name it, if it relates to genealogy, it is probably listed on this site. from the Web4Lib Listserv
Posted in Genealogy, Online Databases, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Internet Web Directory You name
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SearchMash: it may not look like Google…
… but it most certainly is! SearchMash.com is a new search engine that looks only a little like Google, but don’t let that fool you. It is a testbed for new innovations from the popular search engine company. Try it … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Software, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, search engine
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Semantic Indexing Project
A group at Middlebury College is working on open-source search tools that, rather than rely on keywords, attempt to deal with the query semantically. The Semantic Indexing Project goes beyond the “Ask Jeeves” (don’t you kind of miss him?) experience, … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Open Source, Search, Software, WebSearch
Tagged desktop search appliance, Middlebury College, open-source search, speech recognition
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Banned Book Search
Google Book Search has put up a page dedicated to highlighting some of the books that have been challenged over the years, encouraging people to become aware of the controversies and the qualities of these reads. They have several links … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Libraries, Politics, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google Blog, Monkey Bites, Official
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