The issue of ScientificAmerican celebrates the 20th anniversary of the web - I high recommend reading the numerous articles about the web in this issue. Governments--totalitarian and democratic alike--are monitoring people's online habits...
The American economy could be better. This new search feature assumes that site search features can't make the connection on a Web site and Google can find your content easier or better. As the scientific axiom goes, correlation does not imply...
And 43% strongly agree that scientific research is essential to improving the quality of human lives; 27% of remaining online users say this.The full 42 page report is available for download from the Pew Internet & American Life Project web site.
Other examples of free, high-quality publications include the IBM Journal of Research and Development and JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association. Scirus is an interesting hybrid; it includes both summaries of scientific/technical...
Finally, although this ScientificAmerican article was written in 1999, I still think it's one of the best, especially for non-geeks, about web link analysis. As I've pointed out in many presentations to librarian, this is not a good or bad thing...
The World Digital Library is intended to go well beyond American material, however. Oddly, despite being dubbed a "World Digital Library," the project is currently an American-only effort. The plan will expand upon work already done for the...
ScientificAmerican Frontiers Video Archive American Field Guide As Chris notes in his post, unlike Yahoo's recently released Video Search beta*** and AOL's SingingFish, Google Video is not searching video and other multimedia files that are made...
The February issue of ScientificAmerican is out and contains a lengthy article about web search and info retrieval. You can read the six page article titled: Seeking Better Web Searches online. For many of you the article will be a review of...
ScientificAmerican Jan 24 2005 5:28AM GMT The majority are doing simple searches," said Deborah Fallows, Senior Research Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project and author of the report.
Ever wanted to search for something that involved a range of numbers, like any pages mentioning the American Revolution and the dates 1776 through 1779? Dogpile has rolled out a new version of its toolbar that adds an intriguing twist to its well...
The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation," wrote Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila in their ScientificAmerican...
ScientificAmerican Dec 24 2002 8:19AM GMT China Web portals surge to two-year highs. How To Get Your Web Site Content Syndicated. NOTE: Article links often change. In case of a bad link, use the publication's search facility, which most have...
ScientificAmerican Dec 24 2002 8:19AM GMT China Web portals surge to two-year highs. How To Get Your Web Site Content Syndicated. SearchDay is headlines only this week, as we celebrate the season.
According to the American Library Association, the Department of Energy has removed 9,000 scientific research papers that contain keywords such as "nuclear" or "chemical" and "storage" from national laboratory web sites and is reviewing them to...
The folks at ScientificAmerican apparently redesigned their web site, breaking all of the links to articles in the process. Teoma has introduced the Teoma Search Bar, a free online navigational tool that lets you search Teoma.com while viewing any...
ScientificAmerican.com Sci/Tech Web Awards http://www.sciam.com/explorations/2002/060302webawards/ The Living Internet was one of 50 outstanding web sites selected by the editors of ScientificAmerican.
ScientificAmerican, June 2002 http://www.sciam.com/2002/0602issue/0602scicit5.html For example, "united airlines" was a RealNames keyword that lead to the United Airlines web site. A list of search results is likely to be less controversial than...
ScientificAmerican May 15 2002 3:56AM GMT Special Search Tools Issue, Part 2 SearchDay, May 16, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0516-stools2.html Search tools maven Avi Rappoport covers new and updated web site search tools and...
ScientificAmerican May 15 2002 3:56AM GMT Frequent updates add Japanese and Romanian language support, indexing control, displaying web sites as results categories, and Mac OS X compatibility.http://www.searchtools.com/tools...
ScientificAmerican May 15 2002 3:56AM GMT Topics for discussion include open source code options, robot spidering and web crawling, index compression, file format conversion, metadata indexing and searching, Boolean and Intranet search...