Internet Librarian 2006: Greg Notess on using multiple engines
Greg Notess said something that caught my interest about searchers using more than one search engine. He told a story about how he had an email address but wanted to …
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Internet Librarian 2006: the exhibit hall
The exhibit hall this year was snoozeville. There were no start-ups, no cool technologies being shown off. Just database providers. Don’t get me wrong, database providers are appropriate for this …
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Notes from Chris Sherman regarding social search. The web itself, as created by Tim Berners-Lee, and early things on the web, like the Yahoo! directory, are examples of social search. …
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Chris Sherman discussed search. Notes: Ask – increasing R & D budget. Goal of being #2 but with a dedicated following. Think of Apple’s computers. Google – company ranks top …
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I spent yesterday in Monterey with a thousand internet librarians. I was disappointed with the day. Why? 1. Duplicatation – I attended a few talks about search and there was …
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