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The Berkman Center is also holding a workshop called “Google Books Search Settlement Open Workshop: Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries” on Friday July 31, 2009 at the Harvard Law School:
“The proposed Google Book Search settlement creates the opportunity for unprecedented access by the public, scholars, libraries and others to a digital library containing millions [...]

The Berkman Center is holding a discussion on the Google Book Search Settlement on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 12:30 pm. Alexander Macgillivray, Deputy General Counsel for Products and Intellectual Property at Google (and soon to be General Counsel of Twitter), will discuss the Google Book Search Settlement.
RSVP required for those attending in [...]

Garrett shared some cool links in his weekly email, including news about Google’s search changes I read in The Boston Globe earlier. I’m just going to copy and paste from his email.

How to Search For Certain Colors in Google Images
 http://ow.ly/1owr
(Source: neiljohnford)
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Top 10 Electronic Reminder Services
 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,234…
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Two new improvements to Google results pages
 http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/t…
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100 Free Useful Mac [...]

The January 22 Guardian has an interesting article called “Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine: Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search. But thanks to a US cataloguing site, that is far from the case”:
Despite the internet’s origins as an academic network, when [...]

“Oh, in case you hadn’t heard yet, here’s a new browser for you to test on ” joked a friend of mine yesterday. Lots of folks are talking about Google’s new search engine Chrome, especially how it might effect the browser market and compete with Firefox and Internet Explorer. The Boston Globe published a [...]

Garrett sent me a link to an ITConversations interview with Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia about the future of search. That should be a good listen.
Thanks, Garrett!
& Happy Labor Day!
(Guess I should stop laboring, eh?)

Intelliverb created an inhouse search engine for error codes and messages called “ErrorKey”:
“ErrorKey is the tool you need to quickly get an answer for errors you encounter.
We first implemeted ErrorKey as an in house application to help us in our work by quickly get resolution to errors. After sharing it with a group of friends, [...]

Hope Leman of Scangrants.com has a guest posting on AltSearchEngines.com called “A Reader Speaks Out on Search and Libraries”:
“As someone who works in a medical library and as someone fascinated by search engines and who wishes well to worthwhile innovation in search, I have a few suggestions for how search engines and Web 2.0 entrepreneurs generally can [...]

The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report on August 6, 2008 on search engine use:
‘The percentage of internet users who use search engines on a typical day has been steadily rising from about one-third of all users in 2002, to a new high of just under one half (49%).”
“With this increase, the [...]

Today’s buzz in the Web 2.0 world is about TechCrunch’s latest report on Google’s efforts to buy Digg, a very popular site where people can share and vote on content, much like Babbledog, the site on which I work. The article in C|Net made me think of some of the conversations we’ve had about media [...]