Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics is sponsoring a talk about Google Sky on Wednesday, April 9, at 8 pm in Room 105 of Emerson Hall at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
“Wednesday, April 9, 8:00 pm: ‘Inside Google Sky,’ Emerson Hall, Room 105, Harvard University
In August 2007, Google launched ‘Sky in Google Earth,’ the first application to provide […]
Ask.com cut 40 positions on March 4 including Gary Price who also edits the ResourceShelf and DocuTicker blogs. The layoffs are “part of a restructuring to refocus the search company toward providing answers to its core audience of women searching on entertainment, health, and reference topics, the company said on Tuesday.”
http://tinyurl.com/yoqafb
Stephen Abram of Stephen’s Lighthouse […]
The Alternative Search Engines Blog “covers the cutting edge of alternative and niche search engines”:
http://altsearchengines.com/
There’s a Top 100 Alternative Search Engines Feb 2008 list:
http://tinyurl.com/2dkal9
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Too late for me to find the article online, I noticed a piece in Tuesday’s Boston Globe about Google launching images of Boston in the Street View portion or its mapping service. The local television news channel WCVB summarizes the article, outlining some of the privacy concerns for images that show people’s faces, license plates, […]
For those of you interested in people search, Vanessa Fox profiles the search engines Wink, Spock, and ZoomInfo in the October issue of Information Today. (The issue is not freely available on the Web.) They pull information about people from various sources, including social networking sites, business databases, Wikipedia, and weblogs. Wink particularly sounds interesting […]
When some people travel, they eat more junk food than they normally would, using vacation as an excuse to indulge in treats they wouldn’t normally consume at home. I often use USA Today as my travel treat. I don’t normally read the newspaper, but when I travel, I can often pick up a copy fairly […]
On Newslib, I found this Chicago Tribune article looking at major search engines: Google, Yahoo!, Ask, and Microsoft’s Live Search. After providing an analysis of the four engines and explaining why he prefers Yahoo!, Steve Johnson says, “[O]thers will find features or tendencies they prefer in the other search engines. It is simple to test […]
Today, Google turns 9. Do you remember life before Google? Do you remember when librarians raved about Alta Vista and other search engines? What search engine was your primary search engine before Google came along? Did you switch to Google like millions of other people? Do you use other Google services, like Gmail, Google […]
Hugh MacLeod has a post that keeps on giving on gapingvoid about social media, search, connecting to people, and recommendations. I really like the post a lot. That becomes more evident to me as I continue to think about it and a number of ways I could talk about it in this space. I already […]
I know a lot of you really like the resources Mary Ellen Bates’ shares. Here are some links from her SLA Annual Conference presentation about searching Web 2.0 stuff, which she calls the new Web. (Yay! I don’t like the term Web 2.0, as you may know.)
Wikis:
WikiIndex.org
the links at the bottom of Wikipedia articles–selected […]