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Folksonomies: Listen to Jessamyn
Jessamyn said "learn this word: folksonomy" and I make it a point to always listen to Jessamyn. :) Actually, I've been hearing quite a lot about folksonomies lately, between my…
GuruNet now offers Answers.com for free!
According to Gary Price at Resource Shelf, GuruNet has become Answsers.com and is now offering a ready reference search engine for free. Answers.com culls its information from a variety of…
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Questions about the Google Library Project
Barbara Quint has put together a list of questions and answers about the Google Library Project that have been pondered by various people in the library and search worlds. Some…
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Searching handwritten manuscripts and Google
Earlier this month, I had reported on a new way to search handwritten manuscripts that was developed by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Today, the New York Times has…
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Lost in the shuffle
This is also huge digital library news, but, with the Google frenzy, they've really been the victim of bad timing. International Libraries and the Internet Archive collaborate to build Open-Access…
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Google and the “great digitization”
I’ve been quietly reading about the Google deal with the libraries of Stanford, University of Michigan, Harvard, Oxford, and New York City, and the resultant debates/rants on various blogs. I…
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Words we can’t use anymore: Add “scholar” to the list
According to Slashdot, the American Chemical Society is suing Google over their use of the title Google Scholar. The American Chemical Society has a product called SciFinder Scholar, and they…
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Good news for bad spellers?
Wow! I can hardly keep up with all of Google's betas and latest acquisitions! Google Suggest seems to be their newest beta (though don't quote me on that). It's looks…
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Searching in 2005
Here is an interesting article on the year in review for search engines. 2004 saw many major players (Yahoo, Google, and MSN in particular) kick their competition up a notch…
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Bringing LexisNexis to the masses: LexisNexis Ala Carte
LexisNexis is now offering its articles ala carte, which allows regular folks who are not affiliated with an institution of higher learning to search LexisNexis and buy the full-text if…
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Google scholar buzz, consolidated
If you want to read as much as you can about Google Scholar all in one place, there is now a blog devoted entirely to the subject. It's interesting to…
Google Scholar Buzz
Wow, Google must be thrilled by all the free press and panic they're getting from librarians with their brand new offering, Google Scholar. I'd put in my two cents, but…
