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 Solutions
Roger Bradford
Agilex Technologies, Virginia
Semantic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]