Online articles from November 2001

Online archives from November 2001

Net Crisis.(Internet coverage of World Trade Center, Pentagon attacks)(Brief Article)(Column)
November 1, 2001... How people meet crises differs greatly. Some panic; others are calm to the point of non-reaction. Some become angry; others counsel understanding and acceptance. Many interpret crises through their own individual filters. Physicians think about...

Letters to the editor.
November 1, 2001... WEST TO WALL STREET To the editor: I was surprised to see that in Bruce Rosenstein's article about online and Web resources for news articles ("Searching for News Online and On the Web," July/August 2001, pp. 60-64), he didn't mention...

Jeeves Asks for Teoma, Unveils JeevesOne.(Ask Jeeves acquires Teoma Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Ask Jeeves has acquired privately held Teoma Technologies, Inc., a search engine devised by scientists at Rutgers University that uses parametric mathematical algorithms. Rumored to be the next big search engine, Teoma's technology divides the...

Financial Times, Disclosure Return to Dialog.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... After a hiatus of almost three years, the Financial Times has returned to Dialog. Originally File 622 (that file number now belongs to EIU Magazine), the FT was removed in November 1998 at the request of the publisher. Times have changed, as...

Bowker Sells to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts acquires R.R. Bowker unit from Reed Elsevier)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Reed Elsevier has sold its R. R. Bowker unit to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts for an estimated $20 to $30 million. CSA acquires the entire Books in Print family of products (including Ulrich's Periodical Directory), a number of journals and...

MURL Fixes Its Flat Tire.(external bookmark manager MURL back online)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... MURL, the external bookmark manager that has been out of operation for most of the year, losing all its customers' bookmarks in the process, is back in business. It claims that it will become a general information manager. In addition to...

Biomedical.(Reuters Health Information, MD Consult Caridiology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Reuters Health Information (RHI) has adopted the RichLink eGlobalization solution (Sentius Corporation) to improve customer satisfaction and expand its audience. RichLink enhances content with links to pop-up information, known as a Knowledge...

YellowBrix.(adds Standard and Poor's data and market commentary)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... YellowBrix has added Standard & Poor's data and market commentary to its portfolio of financial products within its business intelligence product lines. Standard & Poor's offerings include information and intelligence on more than 11,000...

Montgomery Asset Management.(includes Inlumen's suite of personalization services)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Inlumen's suite of personalization services is now part of Montgomery Asset Management's online News Center. Users can set up multiple portfolios and watchlists; track performance online or request email summaries of portfolios on an intra-day,...

10K Wizard.(changes SEC EDGAR filings to fee-based model)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The 10K Wizard database of SEC EDGAR filings has been changed to a fee-based model, with a cost of $125/ year, except for students, educators, and journalists, who can register for free access (students/educators: www....

Knight Ridder Digital.(to provide content to Factiva)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Factiva and Knight Ridder Digital have announced an agreement under which Factiva will include online content from 29 Knight Ridder newspapers as part of Factiva's global news and business information. Full-text, daily publications from media...

The Recruiter's Bible.(available online as searchable directory)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Recruiter's Bible, a human resources book of free recruiting sites since 1998, is now available online as a searchable directory. After a one-time $4.95 server fee, access is free to over 300 recruiting sites. With a subscription of $150...

Emailias.com.(addresses unsolicited email)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Emailias.com (Emailias, L.L.C.) is a product solution addressing unsolicited email (spam). The service gives users access to an infinite combination of disposable email addresses, encrypted email headers, and reply-encoding in a user-friendly...

ICARUS.(Bureau van Diijk Electronic Publishing Inc. adds Reuters News and Ownership data)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Bureau van Dijk's ICARUS database of U.S. companies has added Reuters News and Ownership data, bumping up its coverage from 250,000 to 1.3 million companies. (212/797-7120; www.bvdsuite.com)

Factiva Search Module.(and Factiva Track Module enhanced)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Factiva Search Module and Factiva Track Module have been enhanced to give users access to French- and German-language user interfaces and expanded content. Additional content includes the full text of the Financial Times, the Financial Times...

Factiva Partner Network.(Factiva, Epicentric Inc. licensing agreement)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Under a Factiva Partner Network agreement, Factiva's news and business information will be integrated into Epicentric, Inc.'s Epicentric Foundation Server 3.5--a business portal platform designed to help companies deploy, provision, and manage...

CMSWatch.(web site from IDEV)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... CMSWatch (IDEV) is a Web site that provides independent analysis of Web content management software solutions and practices, plus related industry developments. The site offers a combination of content management news headlines, interviews with...

QKS Classifier.(web browser from Quiver Inc. in beta testing process)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The beta version of QKS Classifier, a Web content categorization solution from Quiver, Inc., is publicly available for download. QKS Classifier is a hybrid taxonomy platform that augments advanced classification algorithms with a distributed...

Reference Web Poster 1.2.(internet software product fron ISI ResearchSoft)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Reference Web Poster 1.2 is an upgrade of ISI ResearchSoft's tool for sharing bibliographic references on the Internet. Using the tool, users may post databases from EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager on the Web for colleagues to search...

e-street.(licenses services to Lycos UK and Ireland)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... In a deal between e-street and Lycos UK and Ireland, Lycos UK and Ireland users now have access to e-street's guides and information. e-street offers street guides to Bristol, London, and five Irish cities, which will be included in Lycos' U.K....

GoTo.com Inc.(changes name to Overture Services Inc., will launch new web site)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... GoTo.com Inc., a provider of pay-for-performance search to Web sites, changed its name to Overture Services Inc. The company will begin trading its stock under a new ticker symbol (Nasdaq: OVER), and will launch a new corporate Web site at...

Quiver, Inc.(and Inktomi Corp. sign licensing agreement)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Quiver, Inc. and Inktomi Corporation have signed an agreement to integrate Inktomi's Search Software with Quiver's soon-to-be released QKS Classifier [see news item under Portals & Intranets]. With Inktomi Search Software, QKS Classifier will...

MnoGoSearch Pro.(internet software product information)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... mnoGoSearch Pro for Windows NT/2000 (Lavtech.com Corporation) organizes a search on a Web server, number of servers, or intranet. The tool allows indexing and searching of documents in various formats, supporting many languages and character...

FAST Data Search.(internet software product information)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... FAST Data Search (Fast Search & Transfer) is an enterprise-wise search and information retrieval product for managing large amounts of data. It combines the benefits of a search engine with knowledge management and database search technology,...

Auscomp SmartLogin.(internet server software)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Auscomp SmartLogin lets users save password logins and fill in all Web forms with the click of a button or drag-and-drop. It is installed directly into the MS IE V5+ browser, and identified by a button on the MS TB toolbar. When users arrive at...

MondoSoft 4.2.(internet search engine)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... MondoSoft 4.2 is the latest version of the MondoSoft search engine. New features include categorization, synonym searching, category or sound-alike searching, alternative search words, phrase searching, highlighted search words, controlled...

SciBASE.(online scientific information database gains four million records through licensing agreement)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Due to agreements between TheScientificWorld, Inc., the British Library, IOS Press, and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) nearly four million records have been added to sciBASE. These records include citations to...

CAS Science Spotlight.(Chemical Abstracts Service service information)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... CAS Science Spotlight (Chemical Abstracts Service) provides, free of charge, lists of highly cited and requested documents within the last two years, plus the bibliographic and abstract information along with the full text. The service...

BLAST.(SciFinder 2001 incorporates new scientific database search capability)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Researchers in biotechnology can now explore literature in their subject area using the BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) algorithm incorporated into CAS SciFinder. BLAST helps users explore publicly disclosed DNA or protein sequences....

ChemWeb.com.(ChemWeb Inc. redesigns web site)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... ChemWeb.com (ChemWeb, Inc.) has been redesigned with a new user-friendly interface plus personalization on the home page. MEDLINE is also now live on the site in a new intuitive version, free of charge. And ChemWeb.com has teamed with several...

SwetsnetNavigator.(Elsevier Science's ScienceDirect)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Elsevier Science's ScienceDirect titles are now available via SwetsnetNavigator (Swets Blackwell) so that SwetsnetNavigator users whose institutions also subscribe to ScienceDirect can access Elsevier Science journal articles. Links to full...

Social Sciences & Humanities.(Nstein Technologies Inc. sells Nmedia Server to American Psychological Association)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Nstein Technologies Inc., developer of linguistic intelligence business solutions, has sold its Nmedia Server user license to the American Psychological Association (APA) in a deal worth approximately CDN $450,000. This follows a previous...

Google Inc.(acquires intellectual property of Outride Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Google Inc. has acquired the intellectual property of Outride Inc., including patent rights, source code, trademarks, and associated domain names. Outride is an online information and retrieval technologies developer. Financial terms were not...

MARC Link Retrospective Conversion.(acquires Saztec Europe Ltd.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... MARC Link Retrospective Conversion has completed acquisition of the assets and goodwill of Saztec Europe, Ltd. Saztec had provided retrospective conversion services to libraries worldwide. MARC Link offers similar services, with additional...

Swets Blackwell.(acquires Martinus Nijhoff International)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Swets Blackwell will acquire Dutch subscription agent and book dealer, Martinus Nijhoff International, effective immediately. All activities currently handled from Nijhoff's head office in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands, will continue until April...

ProQuest Company.(acquires Heritage Quest)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... ProQuest Company's Information and Learning unit has acquired the Heritage Quest genealogical information company from Sierra On-Line, Inc., a division of Vivendi Universal Publishing. The Heritage Quest product line-including the Heritage...

ScreamingMedia.(acquires Stockpoint Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... ScreamingMedia has acquired stockpoint, Inc., a provider of online financial applications, investment analysis tools, and market information. The acquisition is expected to strengthen Screaming Media's offering to the financial services...

MightyWords.(forms alliance with Hoover's Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... MightyWords, an Internet seller and distributor of digital content, has formed an alliance with Hoover's, Inc. to deliver thousands of its downloadable, printable, professional reports via Hoover's Online. MightyWords' business, computing,...

Peopleware.(hirings and promotions)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... AltaVista has appointed James Barnett as CEO, while the company also decreased its staff by 30% in the latest efforts to reign in costs. Barnett was previously president of MyFamily.com, and is AltaVista's first CEO since Rod Schrock stepped...

NXT 3 e-Content Platform.(purchased by LexisNexis)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... LexisNexis has purchased the NXT 3 e-Content Platform (NextPage, Inc.) for its www.lexisone.com Web site. The platform will enhance searching of lexisONE content plus approximately 20,000 law-related Web sites that may be accessed from...

Patent Document Web Servers.(MINEsoft Ltd.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Several new Patent Document Web Servers have been added to the PatentOrder Web software (Minesoft) for use on standalone PCs or a corporate intranet. PatentOrder provides fast downloading of patent documents located on EspaceNet; USPTO; and...

Delphion Research.(patent applications available)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... U.S. patent applications are now available from Delphion Research. Users can research U.S. patent applications with all other major worldwide patent collections, including those of Europe and Japan. Application data provides information about...

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.(awards contract to Derwent Information)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded Derwent Information a five-year contract to provide "human-assisted machine translation" of foreign language patents into English, together with the original foreign language patent...

World Edition.(LexisNexis Time Matters )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... LexisNexis and Time Matters Software have announced that the World Edition of their co-branded LexisNexis Time Matters software gives legal professionals secure, real-time, remote Web access to their data from anywhere in the world via...

DEAL PROOF.(LexisNexis)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Expanding on their alliance with Expert Ease, LexisNexis has announced a new linking capability which permits access to cases and statutes within LexisNexis directly from within DEAL PROOF, without using Bluebook form. DEAL PROOF is software...

www.lawschool.westlaw.com.(West Group releases new version of website)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... West Group has released a newly designed version of www.lawschool.westlaw.com, the online community for law students and legal educators. Features include The West Education Network which lets professors and students interact, publish...

All The Web.(adds advertising banners to search engine)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
November 1, 2001... AllThe Web has added advertisements to its search engine. While none show up on the home page or the advanced search form, banner ads at the top and box ads in the right-hand margin now appear on search results pages.

AltaVista.(new Chief Executive Officer James Barnett)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... AltaVista finally has a new CEO, James Barnett, formerly president of MyFamily.com. At the same time, it announced a repositioning of its comparison shopping service (formerly Shopping.com) to a search functionality, and emphasizes an exclusive...

BrightPlanet.(releases new search tool)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... BrightPlanet has released version 2.0 of its LexiBot desktop client search tool. Version 2.0 can search among 2,000 databases considered to be part of the invisible Web. This is a commercial product, but a free trial is available.

Excite.(search engine redesigned)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Excite started clustering its results by site sometime this summer. There is no way to "ungroup" the results, a feature available from other search engines. It also does not identify which hits have more than one page per site available, since...

Google.(new Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt)(Abstract)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Google also has a new CEO, Eric Schmidt, formerly CEO of Novell and CTO at Sun. On the day of the announcement, Schmidt stated in an interview that the privately held Google is profitable, although the financial details were not made public....

Google.(new view thread link for searching)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Google Groups has added an enhanced thread-view capability, similar to the old thread view from DejaNews. Click the "View Thread" link at the end of a result to see the posting, with a tree view of the thread in a separate frame. In addition,...

GoTo.(GoTo.com Inc. changes name to Overture Services)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... GoTo is planning on changing its name to Overture effective Oct. 8, 2001. Whether all traces of the GoTo name will disappear or not is still uncertain, but searchers should be sure to look for either name to identify those links from other...

HotBot.(search engine with truncation ability)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... HotBot, whose truncation and wild card symbol had ceased to work for much of this year, is now back in the truncation business. The asterisk again works for front, internal, and end truncation, making HotBot the only major search engine with...

NBCi.(switches databases from Inktomi to DogPile)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... NBCi has switched databases. Formerly, NBCi had its own directory and used Inktomi for its search engine. That is now all gone. Instead, NBCi is using the metasearch engine, DogPile, which serves up results from GoTo, LookSmart, FindWhat, and...

Northern Light.(changes search page)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Northern Light has quietly changed its main search page back to the way it used to be. It has added back the ability to search the Web, its Special Collection, or All Sources as buttons right under the search box. The All Sources includes both...

Teoma.(is acquired by Ask Jeeves)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Teoma, one of the newer search engines, has been bought by Ask Jeeves. The www.teoma.com site still remains available and is still labeled as beta. Ask Jeeves has said that the Teoma site will remain as a pure search engine, but that the...

WiseNut.(launches new search features)(Abstract)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... WiseNut officially launched out of beta on Sept. 4, 2001 and has a new design, new logo, and a new feature. The new search feature is called Sneak-a-Peek and is listed after each result. In Internet Explorer, clicking Sneak-a-Peek will bring up...

The Numbers.(search engine Google rated largest database)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Numbers: The August size comparison of search engine databases at Search Engine Showdown (www. searchengineshowdown.com/stats) found Google maintaining its lead with the largest database, with Fast (used by AllTheWeb and Lycos) and the...

Rights and Obligations of Information users.
November 1, 2001... Information users have a litany of observations and complaints about information suppliers. When I think of the relationship between information users and information suppliers, I am reminded of how men and women often describe their...

THOMSON Gets an Edge on NEWS.(Thomson Corp. acquires NewsEdge)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... The Thomson Corporation once again demonstrated its magnetic pull as it announced the acquisition of NewsEdge on August 8, 2001. Following about three months of negotiation, the final deal has Infoblade Acquisitions Corporation, a Thomson...

Being there: Tools for Online Synchronous Reference.
November 1, 2001... Online reference is a hot topic in libraries, and the hottest topic is synchronous, real-time reference. The idea is simple--users click a button on a Web page to exchange messages with a librarian in real time. A new twist on the technology of...

Tips for Enhancing the Value of Your Web site.
November 1, 2001... The value of a Web site does not depend upon its technical design elements. Rather, it's the information on the site that keeps people coming back. You don't need to be the best Web developer to make a difference in your organization's Web...

HTML Indexer Aims to Index the Web.(software product from Brown Inc.)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Search engines simply leave the use alone, to traverse the minefields of free text keywords and natural language style. Librarians have been known to mutter, "All the Web needs is good indexing." But, honestly, that has not been a realistic...

IT'S GREEK TO ME: FINDING GREEK BUSINESS INFORMATION ON THE WEB.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Major changes are sweeping Greece. Opportunities are sprouting there in a new, favorable investment climate created by privatization, market regulation, Eurozone membership, predictions of GDP growth, the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, significant...

DIVIDE AND CONQUER PATENT RESEARCH.(strategies for managing patent research)
November 1, 2001... A Revolutionaiy Strategy to Optimize Your Time & Increase Your Influence There's a revolution happening in business today. With the rise of global competition, business changes brought about by the Internet, recent changes in patent laws,...

Freshness Issues and Complexities with Web Search Engines.
November 1, 2001... The Web is aging. We can find plenty of Web pages that are more than several years old, and many more that contain out-of-date information. At the same time, the Web is ever-new. Every day, if not more rapidly, new Web pages and new data...

Time to Retire That PC?(analysis of how often library computers should be replaced)
November 1, 2001... How often should public libraries plan to replace their PCs? PUBLIB may constitute such an "expert," given the wealth of experience represented on the list. PUBLIB@SUNSITE.BERKELEY.EDU includes several thousand librarians--most, but not...

Driving Alacra.(Alacra's new database product, Alacra Book)
November 1, 2001... The "make or buy" decision is a classic in business circles. Each individual situation, however, deserves a new analysis. Market research is one example. Do you rely on a market research report, put together your own report from secondary...

Navigating Internet Service Options.
November 1, 2001... For this issue's column, I've asked Ellen Braun, former vice president of Internet Service Delivery of a Web-hosting company, to describe the array of outsourced Web and Internet-based services. The idea for this guest column came from a...

Web Scout Services Open New Territory.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... O'LEARY ONLINE columns are usually systematic affairs. They start with a discrete topic, move steadily through the research, and finish with a tightly written column. This one is different. It started predictably, but soon got sidetracked in...

Zooming In: Writing Content for Intranets.
November 1, 2001... Many of my INTRANET LIBRARIAN columns use a wide-angle lens to focus on the structure and delivery of intranet content. They've emphasized intranet organization, navigation, content acquisition, metadata, usability, and search. In a few recent...

Peter's picks & pens.(Librarians' Index to the Internet, NUA Internet Surveys, Guinness World Records)
November 1, 2001... LIBRARIANS' INDEX TO THE INTERNET The first pick is the Librarians' Index to the Internet, an excellent pathfinder to quality Web sites that shows the fingerprint of competent librarians. The second pick is an indexing/abstracting database...

But Enough About Me, What About the Users?(methods for information marketing professionals)
November 1, 2001... As 2002 nears, it's time again to self-reflect about what's working and what's not, and to think not only about the kinds of changes required to make a difference next year, but also what you personally need to do to fortify yourself for the...

Recommended Reading on Intellectual Property, Internet Forecasting, and Web Indexing.(Review)
November 1, 2001... This month we take a look at copyright and intellectual property issues, as well as Internet futures forecasting and a guide to Web indexing. * * * * New Trajectories of the Internet: Umbrellas, Traction, Lift and Other Phenomena ...

Factiva.com.(description of new service)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Factiva, formed back in mid-1999 by the folks who brought us Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing, rolled out its new flagship product, Factiva.com (http://global.Factiva.com), this summer. While it is still a work in progress,...