Library Journal has a short Google Scholar review that makes a couple of quick points to note including:
Karen Blakeman, director, RBA Information Services, “would like to see a list of sources” included. Her experiences with Google Scholar have been disappointing because of missing power search features: a consistent, controlled vocabulary (or even access to vocabularies […]
Now this is pretty cool. Created by Ross Singer at Georgia Tech, it’s a bit more advanced than other methods both in that it’s not limited to a particular browser (uses a bookmarklet, which I am not really a fan of, however) and that it does a number of functions, as outlined on the […]
Earlier this month TheFeature published an interview with Hartmut Neven discussing his work on machine vision and search. The goal of his technology is to develop a “visual Google” that will allow users to take a picture with a camera phone and search for information about the objects in the image. As he […]
I just finished reading Dick Bulterman’s Is it Time for a Moratorium on Metadata?. He argues that metadata has become needlessly complex and not very useful for locating data, which he feels is metadata’s primary job:
Locating information is a useful activity. It’so useful that it is a problem that has been studied for centuries. […]
According to a post on SFX/MetaLib Discuss-L, Google is aware of the interest and thinking about it.
Here in Evanston, IL we have this cool online application that allows you to look up an image of the front of any building in the city. I use this all the time to get oriented if I can’t remember what building a particular address refers to (growing up here I can […]
As reported everywhere, Google launches Video search beta.
The lead firefox developer now works at Google.
Rumors of a Google VoIP service.
Pew has released a new report detailing the behaviors and references of internet search users. One thing that surprised me and others:
Nearly half of searchers use a search engines no more than a few times a week, and two-thirds say they could walk away from search engines without upsetting their lives very much.
Other interesting […]
This interesting OS X application indexes and allows you to search bookmarks, browser caches and histories. I haven’t tried it out yet, but the idea is very similar to a project I worked on this past fall at the request of a librarian emerita.
This is totally old, but it’s pretty interesting if you haven’t seen it. It’s basically a summary of a talk given by Marissa Mayer, Product Manager for Google, and details some interesting facts about Google. Among other things:
1. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact […]
The Feb ‘04 Scientific American has an article, Seeking Better Web Searches, on the many forms that web search is taking. It’s a pretty interesting overview on some of the options and experiments, including efforts to search 3D models and audio. The article itself is only available online at the restricted Scientific American […]
Information Today has a short piece on Scirus, Elsevier’s science search engine. As OAN notes, “Less a comparison of Scirus and Google Scholar than an interview with an Elsevier manager on the two services.” Nonetheless, it’s an interesting pitch that details some of Scirus’ features.
from the press release
Openly Informatics, Inc. (http://www.openly.com/) today announced that it had added OpenURL 1.0 support, along with several other user-friendly features, to an Open Source browser plugin extension that adds linking to web pages in the Google Scholar service.
The plug-in software, called “OpenURL Referrer”, works with the Firefox Web Browser (http://www.getfirefox.com/) and was inspired […]
Purdue’s Exponent is reporting that Google has expressed interest in their collections:
Students may soon be able to search for books at Purdue’s libraries through Google.
James L. Mullins, dean of libraries, said Google has expressed interest in Purdue’s strengths regarding engineering and science and has requested a list of Purdue’s collections.
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via SEW
The story is overripe at this point, but if you haven’t seen the 60 Minutes piece on Google (sprinkled with Battelle) it’s worth a look: video (divx). Some interesting excerpts:
There was something else different about Google: the company motto, “Do no evil.”
“We have tried to boil it down at some point to a […]