Online articles from January 2000

Online archives from January 2000

The Tasini Decision and Database Integrity.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Consider this scenario in the digital library of the future. Your patron has requested an article that appeared in a popular magazine or newspaper. You search quickly and verify the citation, but the full text is nowhere to be found. Nothing,...

New Name for Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive.(Factiva)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Factiva (http://www.factiva.com) is the new name for Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC, which, according to CEO Tim Andrews, is intended to "become synonymous with fast, accurate, and indispensable information." Dow Jones Interactive...

DeepCanyon Targets Marketers.(Hewlett-Packard's new site)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... DeepCanyon is a new Web site from Hewlett-Packard (http://www.deepcanyon.com) that offers market research reports for purchase as soon as the reports are released. Additional site features include aggregated market information, editorial...

Northern Light Technology Receives Patent.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Northern Light Technology has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Custom Search Folder technology, which organizes relevant Web search results into custom folders. While most search engines index Web pages...

Aeneid Acquires InGenius Technologies.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Aeneid Corporation has acquired the personalization technology provider, InGenius Technologies, for a combination of cash and equity. As a result, Aeneid will add personalization capabilities to EoMonitor, its new monitor and notification...

OCLC Announces WebExpress.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... WebExpress, from OCLC, is expected to launch in the second quarter of 2000. Using WebExpress, libraries will be able to combine both OCLC and non-OCLC resources for their users into a single, locally-customized interface, and simultaneously...

InvisibleWeb.com.(Intelliseek)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... InvisibleWeb.com is Intelliseek's new collection of highly-targeted databases and searchable sources that aren't covered by traditional search engines (http://www.invisibleweb.com). The content of these sources is "invisible" because their...

Flyswat 1.0.(Flyswat, Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Flyswat, Inc.'s "Deep Navigation" tool, flyswat 1.0, is now available for creating automatic links from any Web page a user visits to related content and commerce elsewhere on the Web. The product uses a perceptive engine to identify relevant...

Accelerate 2000.(Webroot Software, Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... Accelerate 2000 (Webroot Software, Inc.) is a software tool that lets users speed up their Internet connection by modifying Windows settings for data transfer via modem/network connections. This results in faster download speeds, Web site...

Northern Light Technology.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Northern Light Technology has introduced a new generation of relevancy-ranking technology that combines a complex set of factors to try to simulate human judgment when evaluating relevant results from a Web search. The technology also acids the...

ProCite 5.
January 1, 2000... ProCite 5 (ISI ResearchSoft) offers the ability to access bibliographic databases on the Internet and incorporate the resulting information into personal databases and documents. The new program ships with more than 200 "Internet Host" files...

DB/TextWorks.
January 1, 2000... DB/TextWorks version 4.0 (Inmagic, Inc.) incorporates Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), plus additional features such as integrated email, images in reports, and scripting capabilities to streamline repetitive tasks. Also released is DB/Text...

NetLibrary Inc.
January 1, 2000... netLibrary Inc. (http://www.netLibrary.com) has announced the closing of a third round of strategic venture funding totaling $70 million. Third-round investors include Houghton Mifflin, McGraw-Hill, Liberty Digital Inc., Follett Corporation,...

Thomson Financial Publishing.
January 1, 2000... Thomson Financial Publishing has acquired the products of Compliance Technology Systems, comprising the Wire Transfer Control System and the Currency Reporting Control System--two Windows-compatible software systems designed to help financial...

Company Dossier.(Review)
January 1, 2000... LEXIS-NEXIS has introduced Company Dossier, which offers company reports collected from the LEXIS-NEXIS files. A user can create a Company Dossier on a U.S. public, U.S. private, or non-U.S. company, with each dossier displaying up to eight...

BvD Suite.
January 1, 2000... BvD Suite (http://suite.bvdep.com) offers a single entryway to Bureau van Dijk's complete range of corporate Internet databases. The suite combines multiple database modules, such as amadeus, fame, BankScope, isis, and others, with searching...

SAEGIS 6.0.
January 1, 2000... SAEGIS 6.0 (Thomson & Thomson) incorporates a new custom search feature and a redesigned interface. The Enhanced Query Detail allows users to combine queries using Boolean logic or refine existing queries, and they are also able to choose the...

Yet2.com.
January 1, 2000... Yet2.com has established an ecommerce forum for the proprietary exchange of technology-based intellectual property. Users may purchase technologies offered by strategic partners, including AlliedSignal, Boeing, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Ford Motor...

InSite 2.0.
January 1, 2000... Intelligence Data's InSite 2.0 prospecting and alerting features have been enhanced, with enhancements now available at no extra charge to all existing customers. Using the prospecting feature, users can now download directory information into...

Intelligence Data.
January 1, 2000... Current Intelligence Data customers may now access all Intelligence Data products, including Intelliscope and InSite 2.0 at http://www.intelligencedata.com. This is a new site that also offers features such as Intelligence Monitor, product...

Powerize.com.
January 1, 2000... Powerize.com now offers a new free Business Finder that enables users to find basic contact information for more than 11 million U.S. businesses. Users can search by company name, city, state, industry, SIC code, telephone number, or keyword....

LEXIS-NEXIS Group.
January 1, 2000... LEXIS-NEXIS Group has announced three executive appointments under the NEXIS Chief Operating Officer Bill Pardue. Fred Leftrict, Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Market Research for LEXIS Publishing, has been named Vice President of...

OCLC Marketing Reference and Resource Sharing Division.
January 1, 2000... Chuck Costakos has been promoted to Director, Product Management, of the OCLC Marketing-Reference and Resource Sharing Division, where he will develop programs and services that further the integration of information discovery and delivery...

EBSCO Publishing.
January 1, 2000... EBSCO Publishing has appointed Mark Herrick as Vice President of Business Development, responsible for overseeing growth initiatives, including fostering business partnerships and new product development.

Integrated Library Systems for Inmagic Inc.
January 1, 2000... Lynda Moulton has been appointed Director of Integrated Library Systems for Inmagic, Inc. Moulton was founder and former president of Comstow Information Services, Inc., from which Inmagic recently acquired BiblioTech PRO.

AltaVista.
January 1, 2000... AltaVista had a major relaunch, redesign, and changed content. On October 25, 1999, they unveiled a new logo, a new slogan, and a new overall design. They dropped their own Usenet database and replaced it with one from RemarQ and added a news...

Britannica.
January 1, 2000... Britannica relaunched its britannica.com site. It now includes the full text of the Encyclopeadia Britannica. The site's former subject directory of Web sites is still there under the name of "the Web's Best Sites." Britannica.com also includes...

Excite.
January 1, 2000... Excite announced (on October 25, the same day AltaVista relaunched) an agreement to acquire Blue Mountain Arts, the online greeting card company. Excite also has dropped Zip2 and now uses AnyWho for its white pages phone number database and...

Infoseek.
January 1, 2000... Infoseek and the Go Web sites had to stop using the Go logo due to a preliminary injunction resulting from GoTo objecting that the Go logo was too similar to the GoTo logo.

iWon.com.
January 1, 2000... iWon.com is yet another site that uses the Inktomi search engine, directory engine, and shopping engine. Registered users of iWon.com can have their names entered in a daily $10,000 cash sweepstakes if they use iWon.com.

InvisibleWeb.com.(introduced by Intelliseek)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... InvisibleWeb.com, a directory of more than 10,000 Web-accessible searchable databases was launched by IntelliSeek. The company plans to expand InvisibleWeb.com to include over 100,000 databases.

LookSmart and Inktomi.(agreement to develop customized search directories)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... LookSmart and Inktomi announced an agreement to "develop customized search directories for vertical Web portals and destination sites." Inktomi will add some of the LookSmart content to the Inktomi Directory Engine as an optional product...

Lycos.(introduces new richmedia search engine)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Lycos launched a new rich media search engine at http://richmedia.lycos.com. A product of Fast Search, the rich media search engines can be used for finding pictures, movies, streaming media, and sounds. In another move with partner Fast, Lycos...

MSN Web Search.(introduces new version)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... MSN Web Search (http://search.msn.com/) has launched its new version using the LookSmart directory and AltaVista for its search engine. It no longer makes use of an Inktomi database or search engine.

Northern Light.(introduces new relevance ranking)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Northern Light announced new relevance ranking (on October 25, the same day AltaVista relaunched). The new algorithms give greater weight to Google-like link analysis. Northern Light also made a freely-accessible public access version of...

Oingo.(now in beta)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Oingo, a search engine with meaning-based search enhancements, is now in beta. Available at http://www.oingo.com, it gives options for searching different meanings of search terms. Currently, it uses databases from the Open Directory and...

RemarQ.(adds ability to search Usenet message text)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... RemarQ has added the ability to search for text within Usenet messages, making it an alternative to Deja.com. The message search capability is also available from AltaVista as a "Discussions" search followed by changing the dropdown box to...

SavvySearch.(acquired by CNET)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... SavvySearch has been acquired by CNET.

0-0.com.(new directory from West Palm Beach Technologies)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... 0-0.com is a new directory from West Palm Beach Technologies, Inc. Called a Universal Commerce Directory, the site at http//www.0-0.com claims to offer 2.9 million top-level URLs organized into more than 300,000 categories of products and...

NewsCast and NewsEdge: Tapping the News Stream.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... Companies that valued information as a competitive tool grew 200% faster, showed 80% higher revenues, and had 33% higher productivity than companies that didn't. Those are the results of a Coopers & Lybrand study, which the Wavo Newscast...

WHO GOES THERE?(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Measuring Library Web Site Usage After all the work, time, and money that's invested in building and maintaining the library Web site, you and your staff will most likely want to know who, if anyone, is using it. Additionally, what...

Counting Angels on a Pinhead Critically Interpreting Web Size Estimates.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... "The size of the Web is 800 million pages, and the biggest search engine only covers about 16% of it." Please don't say that. Please don't write it. It's incorrect, and as information professionals, we should know better. If you have been...

The PEAK project & strategies for Remote User support.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... PEAK (Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge) was a research experiment and content delivery service provided from 1997 through August 1999 to test pricing models for access to electronic journals. PEAK provided access to the full text of the...

INTELLIGENCE GATHERING: EVALUATING SOURCES FOR OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... There is little doubt that the information revolution has changed the way we all do business. Intelligence analysis is no exception. More information is now available to the analyst than ever before. However, more information is not necessarily...

Reference resources on the Web.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... There are a number of hybrid reference services on the Web that are something of a cross between a traditional database service and a Web search engine. They often feature proprietary content, and may also include links to other Web resources....

USGOVSEARCH: The Federal Web, NTIS Database, and More...(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Usgovsearch (http://www.usgovsearch.com/) is the result of a partnership between the Web search engine Northern Light and the commercial government organization of NTIS (National Technical Information Service). Under the Commerce Department,...

Online World conference & expo.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... After three years in Washington, DC, Online Inc. took its 1999 ONLINE WORLD Conference and Exhibition back on the road last October and set up its 21st annual production in the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago. Once again a travelling...

Choose Your Future.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... To make the difference you have to have a pretty clear understanding of yourself and the environment in which you operate. When I started to write this column it was going to be about the four main changing roles that are emerging within...

One More Barrier to Compliance: Publications Not Registered with the CCC.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... We often face barriers when complying with copyright laws. Non-registration of titles with the Copyright Clearance Center is one major obstacle. Editor's Note: This year, Stephanie Ardito will take over columnist duties for CONFLICTED COPY...

ON THE NET in 2000.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Despite the concerns a few years ago over the return on Internet investments, there's great excitement over intranets, extranets, and cost cutting through Web-based customer service. As we plunge forward into 2000, with the dreaded Y2K...

GetNetWise Helps Fight Internet Dangers.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... While decent Internet businesses may decry their unsavory peers, they also want no regulation that might somehow interfere with their own activities. As the Internet becomes more and more an essential part of our daily lives, so do the...

Signs of Time.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The most important thing to keep in mind is the duality implicit in electronically available information. It is no secret that timely information is the lifeblood of business. Outdated information can have serious consequences for...

Head Start: Usability Testing Up Front.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... ... what we need to do is focus on usability between major new design projects. . . take opportunities to test the waters and incrementally refine the sites we have. One way to view an intranet is as a large human-computer interaction...

Info-Fashions for the New Millennium.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... This may sound like science fiction now, but wearable computers...are coming out of the drawing-board stage and into a variety of experimental applications. In her September 1999 column, "The Bionic Searcher," Reva Basch speculated on the...

Recommended Reading.(Brief Article)(Review)
January 1, 2000... In this issue, we take a look at some books that attempt to help improve your organization's involvement with trade, international resources, and technology. The first two take very different looks at competitive intelligence. The last two...

Talkin' 'Bout a Resolution.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Ever since I graduated from college and became an official grownup with a life of my own, I've managed said life with the aid of a Sierra Club engagement calendar, my low-tech, trailing-edge personal assistant. Every fall, I pluck my fresh,...