I mention in the introduction that it is totally unchanged from the very quirky, very British flavor it had when it was first published. But rarely (if ever) do they describe the interdisciplinary approach to information retrieval (IR) covering...
The most recent partner, the British Library, will allow for the digitization of 250,000 unique works. The British Library's Contributions The British Library will be selecting 250,000 out-of-copyright works, exclusively from the library's stunning...
Recently the British Library asked people about the specific ways they searched for reliable articles. When people are looking for reliable information, they don't trust and use search engines quite as much as you think.
A new exhibit looking at the last 100 years of UK newspapers is now open at the British Library in London. Another week has passed which means it's time for a look at a few new or updated specialty search tools that they have posted about on...
Why is there no British Google? A top British politician. Kennedy Library Announced Business: From Traffic Cams to Digitizing to the Kennedy Library to Archival Records: A Specialty Search Roundup #3 Selection of Specialty Database via...
British Telecom And if the IP address traces back to a public computer -- one at a workplace, in a school, a library, you still don't know exactly who was on the computer. Maybe the browser software was in a library, where different people used it.
First, Dean Giustini, a medical librarian at University of British Columbia in Vancouver (one of the most beautiful places I've ever been) and editor of the UBC Google Scholar Blog has a good summary of recent articles about how Google Scholar is...
Baker said there are real commercial possibilities based on the content held within libraries, and especially the British Library, that are not currently understood. There is a lot of interest in historical artefacts, but to go to the British...
Microsoft To Digitize 100,000 Books from the British Library. Google's personalized search reorders search results based on your history of past searches, giving more weight to topics that interest you.
MSN announced that it would digitize about 100,000 books through a partnership with the British Library. Microsoft and the British Library stressed that they will be choosing books only from the older end of the library's vast collection of 13...
Postscript: The British Library and MSN said the will work together to digitise around 100,000 out-of-copyright books for MSN Boook Search. Google Print is now publishing the full-text of public domain/out-of-copyright print works it has acquired...
Archivists and technicians at ITN, which now operates the British Pathe library, have created the images by re-scanning the newsreel's 3,500 hours of 35 millimeter film. Happy Birthday to the British Pathe Digital Archive!
So you're right, in principle Google should seek opt-in permission before indexing freely available web pages, too (as, indeed, the British Library's web archiving project has very properly done - and very hard work it is too).
A National Digital Library is planned at heart of British Library's new strategy. Of course, one should always consider the plaintiff in any suit presented. The publicity gained through this type of action is worth its weight in gold--especially to...
British Library to Digitize World's Oldest Bible. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, written and edited by volunteers. There have been many debates about the relative value of the Wikipedia and commercial encyclopedias.
British library preserving voice recordings of famous people on CDs. I find it hard to believe that the engines would neg me because I have a bunch of sites that reflect my hobbies and interests, and I crosslink between them.
New business with Google Search Appliance (Morgan Stanley and British Library) Google has reported earnings of $.19/share for Q3 2004. Revenue rose 105 percent from a year ago to $805.9 million. Google-Sites Revenue-Google-owned sites generated...
Books will be accepted if they have ISBNs and are in any form of English (US, British, Canadian, Australian -- any variant is acceptable). But it would be a lot of trouble and effort, making it much easier to just go to a library to copy a book there.
Public denied online access to British Library's archive. Search Engine Watch Forum I am in the process of opening an eBay store for about 100 or so items. Being the main objective to rank high on the search engines for relevant money keywords, but...
British Library plans to archive whole UK Web. Click here to learn more about becoming a member Overture launched a new Local Match program today to allow its advertisers in the United States to more easily target listings toward those with a local...
