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 [...]
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 [...]
Vinton Cerf is the opening speaker at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. A former senior vice president at MCI, with Robert Kahn, he co-designed the TCP/IP protocol and basic architecture of the Internet. Now, he’s Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. (What a fab title!) Charlie Rose is interviewing him.
Infonortics Search Engine Meeting Conference, held April 28-29, 2008 in Boston, has many presentations available online. Here are a few of them: Charles Clarke – Day One Opening Talk University of Waterloo, Canada XML Retrieval: Problems and Potential Stephen E. Arnold AIT, Kentucky Beyond Search: Big Money and User Dissatisfaction as Catalysts for Next-Generation Search [...]
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 [...]
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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 Posted by Rich
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 [...]