Another influential librarian in our search world is Mary Ellen Bates, who offers tips to help her fellow info pros get their bearings. So who is quietly trying to solve your search and discovery problem?
And major kudos to Robert Clough of SearchEngineGuide for providing the links to discussions for the Search Engine Forums Spotlight every Friday.I'd also like to thank everyone who contributed articles to SearchDay over the years, including: Matt...
NationMaster also recently rolled out StateMaster.com, a sister site that offers similar data mining on US state statistics, using sources such as the US Census Bureau, FBI, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a variety of non-profit...
Until recently, it was difficult to find news archives on the web more than 30 days old. That's changed in a big way with the advent of Google's News Archive search.Researchers and info pros know that everything is not available for free on the web...
Guest writer Mary Ellen Bates takes a closer look at the news archives in today's SearchDay article, Google As News Archivist. Google launched its News Archive Search with little fanfare in September, and I found it to be an interesting, useful...
Guest writer Mary Ellen Bates has found a new tool that helps you search for feeds from a variety of souces and easily aggregate them for reading. RSS feeds offer a great way to pull relevant content from blogs, news sites and many other sources...
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. RSS feeds offer a great way to pull in interesting, relevant information—but finding good feeds can be a challenge.
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. Google Scholar is an effort by Google to point you to either a summary or, occasionally, the full text of "scholarly...
Guest writer Mary Ellen Bates looks at a number of these highly focused services in today's SearchDay article, Finding Articles Online. When you're looking for magazine or journal articles, search engines can be helpful, but other specialized...
Introducing a New Web Search Contender (By Mary Ellen Bates, via SearchDay) Throughout 2005 one of the most impressive new, general purpose, web engines was Exalead from France. Several of our posts are linked at the conclusion of this article.
Building & Running a Successful Research Business is the latest outstanding book from the prolific Mary Ellen Bates. Part of the Super Searchers series, this is Mary Ellen Bates' second contribution to this valuable set of books.
Guest writer Mary Ellen Bates revisits two of the best web directories in today's SearchDay article, A Pair of Web Pathfinding Gems. Using a search engine to find information on the web is virtually reflexive for most of us these days.
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. Though we rely heavily on search engines these days, sometimes a good "old fashioned" human edited directory is a better...
Guest writer Mary Ellen Bates has been using a new tool from Net Snippets that has multiple features bundled into a single package that make it a seriously cool (and fun) addition to her web research arsenal, she reports in today's SearchDay...
There are many approaches to sharing information you've found on the web, but a new free tool called eSnips is one of the most useful and intriguing yet seen. Net Snippets, the company that developed a product for post-search information management...
The first thing you need to do is start using your "peripheral vision," writes Mary Ellen Bates in today's SearchDay article, Thinking Outside the Search Box. Turning to our favorite search engine has become reflexive for most people seeking...
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. I call this information sleuthing approach thinking outside the search box.
Another new search engine worthy of your attention is Exalead, writes guest writer Mary Ellen Bates in today's SearchDay article, Introducing a New Web Search Contender. You don't see many new general purpose search engines emerge these days—the...
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. These days, web search is dominated by giants, and it's rare to see the emergence of a new potentially world-class...
In today's SearchDay article, Just the Facts, Please, guest writer Mary Ellen Bates writes about two free, comprehensive and usually reliable sources that can help you find quick answers to factual questions in a hurry.
