Online articles from September 2000

Online archives from September 2000

When Is a Billion Too Much?(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... When is a billion too much? Not when it's cash, chocolate bars, or cans of beer. How about URLs? Possibly. Some Web search engines are on the rampage to index as much of the Web as they can, and while doing so, often heroically mention how...

Hoover's, Inc. to Acquire Powerize.com.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Hoover's, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Powerize.com, a content integration and syndication technology developer and operator of a business research Web site. Hoover's plans to use Powerize.com's technology to...

Search Engines & Technology.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... WebCheck is WebTop's new Personal Desktop Assistant (PDA) that lets users highlight relevant text in any desktop application and then drag it to the WebTop PDA icon. The PDA then references the WebTop service and returns relevant,...

Peopleware.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The American Psychological Association (APA) has appointed Linda Beebe as Director of PsycINFO. E. Kevin Dahill has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of SageMaker Inc. Reed Elsevier plc has appointed Andrew Prozes as Chief...

LexisONE.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... lexisONE is a Web site launched by LEXIS Publishing that combines free case law, legal forms, and other information for small-firm attorneys. Features include five years of free case law (plus the complete collection of U.S. Supreme Court...

Practice Pages.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... lexis.com Practice Pages (LEXIS Publishing) offer customized home pages for legal professionals applicable for individual practice or specialty areas. Each customized page includes a collection of the sources needed in a specific area of law,...

Isis Scanned Reports.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... isis Scanned Reports are now included in Bureau van Dijk's insurance company resources available from http://www.bvdsuite.com. isis Scanned Reports supplements isis (insurance information and statistics), Bureau van Dijk's analytical insurance...

Derwent International Patent Family File (DIPF) and U.S. Patents Full Text (US-PAT).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... West Group and Derwent Information have released the Derwent International Patent Family File (DIPF) and U.S. Patents Full Text (US-PAT) databases on Westlaw. DIPF permits simple searching through ten million patent family documents dating back...

The Country Intelligence Mall.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Country Intelligence Mall (ECNext) is an online community that gives users a one-stop source for searching and purchasing content from leading publishers of country intelligence. Information available includes Business Operations Reports,...

Federal Research in Progress database (FEDRIP).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... EBSCO will offer the Federal Research in Progress database (FEDRIP) via EBSCOhost--the third NTIS database available from EBSCO, now with AGRICOLA and NTIS. FEDRIP provides information covering ongoing federally funded projects in the physical...

RAND.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... RAND, a private non-profit institution dedicated to improving public policy through research and analysis, is now offering its publications to libraries and other institutions through netLibrary Inc., an ebooks and content and collection...

Intellidocs.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Intellidocs is an enhancement to ProQuest (Bell & Howell Information and Learning), which expands the amount of information available to searchers with the addition of links to additional reference sources from peoples, places, and companies...

DigitalOwl.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... DigitalOwl has announced an agreement with Primary Research Group, where DigitalOwl will market and sell scientific content online to business and academic users of Primary Research Group's services. DigitalOwl will provide persistent copyright...

Journals@Ovid.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Ovid Technologies has added 15 medical and nursing journals to the Journals@Ovid database, increasing the total number of journal titles to 363.

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) has been added to Ovid Technologies' Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR). DARE is available as part of EBMR via Ovid Online and will soon be released as part of the local EBMR...

Factiva Publisher.
September 1, 2000... Factiva Publisher is part of a suite of content integration tools that can integrate Factiva's global content into an organization's intranet. The tool offers nearly 5,000 external information sources including the Wall Street Journal, Dow...

Plumtree Portal Gadget.
September 1, 2000... Plumtree Software has announced six new partnerships plus the release of Plumtree Portal Gadget suites for integrating content and news from partners in the Plumtree Corporate Portal. The new partners include Business.com, iSyndicate.com,...

LEXIS Intranet Portal.
September 1, 2000... LEXIS Publishing has announced a partnership with Plumtree Software to adopt Plumtree technology as the portal platform for the LEXIS Intranet Portal for large law firms. The production version of this portal is currently available, which lets...

Verity Portal One.
September 1, 2000... Powerize.com has announced that it is partnering with Verity, Inc. to support Verity Portal One, a new solution that delivers comprehensive and unified access to enterprise and Internet data sources from Web browsers and hand-held devices and...

MediaXpress (WAVO).
September 1, 2000... MediaXpress (WAVO) capabilities for distributing news, information, and entertainment to companies have been enhanced. In addition to its current Windows 2000 offering, WAVO is introducing both UNIX (Solaris) and Linux versions of MediaXpress....

Corporate Yahoo!
September 1, 2000... Corporate Yahoo! (http://corporate.yahoo.com) is a customized enterprise information portal based on the My Yahoo! (http//my.yahoo.com) interface, which lets companies integrate proprietary corporate content and applications with Yahoo!'s...

Ovid OpenLinks.
September 1, 2000... Ovid OpenLinks is an external full-text linking solution available for purchase by Ovid institutional bibliographic database subscribers. Along with Journals@Ovid, OpenLinks provides unified access to scientific, technical, and medical...

NewsRx.com.
September 1, 2000... NewsRx.com is the newest publisher added to those available through the Newsletter Mall (ECNext). NewsRx.com's 24 titles will be available by subscription or by individual issue or article. Content covers timely information on drugs,...

Excite.
September 1, 2000... Excite launched an updated and changed interface known as Excite Precision Search (EPS). The new emphasis is on the "clean and simple" approach with more direct access to its search engine results. Results from other databases are now under the...

Google.
September 1, 2000... Google has been extremely busy since the last update. They have added up to three news headlines to the top of their search results. The cached pages are now called "cached" again. They announced a significant increase in size, claiming a more...

HotBot.
September 1, 2000... HotBot has finally added the ability to uncluster results on its advanced search page. Look for the new option that disables its "Best Page Only Filter." Initially, turning the filter on or off seemed to make no difference, but that problem...

Inktomi.
September 1, 2000... Inktomi acquired Ultraseek, a site search and intranet search engine, from its creators at Go.com. Ultraseek was an Infoseek product from the days before Disney bought Infoseek and integrated it into Go.com.

Inktomi GEN3.
September 1, 2000... Inktomi GEN3, the 500-million-record Inktomi database, had become available through three Inktomi partners: iWon, Snap, and HotBot. These three will only retrieve records from the 300-plus-million portion if the number of hits found in the...

iWon.
September 1, 2000... iWon clusters results on its main search page and will only display one page per site, with no option to see the pages. Using iWon's advanced search, the results are not clustered by site, so many more hits can be found using the advanced...

LookSmart.
September 1, 2000... LookSmart has redesigned its home page to emphasize its partner sites. It also announced an agreement with Gale to load the full text of magazine articles and make that content available through some of its partners. That should occur sometime...

Lycos.
September 1, 2000... Lycos switched from using its own crawler-built search engine database to the Fast database for results on both its main search page and the advanced search. Some of the international versions of Lycos still use the older Lycos database. The...

WebTop.
September 1, 2000... WebTop from Bright Station also announced reaching the 500-million-record milestone. However, since WebTop does not index the full text on each of those Web pages, their effective size is considerably less than the other major search engines.

Yahoo!
September 1, 2000... Yahoo! has dropped Inktomi as its back-end search engine for delivering "Web page" results and is now using Google instead. The Yahoo! Version of Google is using a smaller version of the Google database and does not find as many pages as the...

The Numbers.
September 1, 2000... The July statistical comparison of search engines at Search Engine Showdown (http://searchengineshowdown.com/) puts iWon and Google at the top of the size comparisons, demonstrating the difference that their half-billion record databases give....

Information @ your fingertips.
September 1, 2000... Corporate information centers are constantly struggling to find ways to get the attention of the higher levels of their organizations. For some, it's a matter of survival--if you do not provide a high-value service to those who are making...

Electronic Books: A Major Publishing Revolution.
September 1, 2000... In the short time since Part 1 of this series appeared ONLINE, July/August 2000), the electronic book (ebook) business has continued developing at a torrid pace. Part 1 presented a general overview and definition of ebooks, and described the...

XML and the Resource Description Framework: The Great Web Hope.
September 1, 2000... THERE EXISTS IN THE INFORMATION COMMUNITY A VISION OF METADATA SOLVING WEB SEARCHING CHAOS, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SOME LEADING SEARCH ENGINES IGNORE METATAGS ALTOGETHER. RDF AND XML OFFER A POTENTIAL MEANS TO ENHANCED RESOURCE DISCOVERY ON...

FulFilling vision of the virtual library: THE CUTTING-EDGE WEBLIBRARY AT COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPORATION.
September 1, 2000... It's the kind of thing that could kill a library. Your organization is acquired by another company. There's massive reorganization. Budgets are Slashed. Upper management decides the doors to the information centers will be closed--permanently....

Six Degrees of Affiliation: THE SMALL WORLD OF SEARCH TOOLS.
September 1, 2000... As information professionals, we have a love/hate relationship with Internet search tools. We love them because they put at our disposal a vast resource that has revolutionized our industry. We harbor a deep resentment for them because they do...

Weaving an Untangled Web: Macromedia's Dreamweaver 3.
September 1, 2000... "I like to code by hand." "Those WYSIWYG Editors don't give me enough control "I created a 300-page site in two weeks with Notepad." While not exact quotes, these were the sentiments expressed in a recent discussion on Web4-Lib, a...

Searching Beyond Text: Issues with Multimedia Searching.
September 1, 2000... As the Internet grows ever larger, the sheer quantity of textual information continually increases. Basic text, in ASCII, HTML, or PDF, probably makes up the bulk of the information that we all handle on a daily basis. But the image, video,...

Listening in on Conference Calls.
September 1, 2000... Is your computer whispering investment secrets in your ear? If not, you're missing out. Previously confidential broadcast telephone calls from corporate managements to securities analysts and institutional investors are now broadcast over the...

Evidence-Based Web Redesigns.
September 1, 2000... Web site redesign! Among Webmasters, nothing conjures up more mixed feelings than talk of a large-scale redesign. As someone intimately involved in the day-to-day development and management of a large Web site, the idea of breathing new life...

The End-User Speaks: Commercial Desktop Services and the Open Web.
September 1, 2000... We recently completed an interesting study about aspects of end-users' information habits and behaviors concerning the open Internet versus commercial desktop information services, such as Dow Jones Interactive, LEXIS-NEXIS Universe, NewsEdge,...

Mobile Web: The New "Dial-Up".
September 1, 2000... You may be fed up with the ubiquitous cell phone, but get used to it. Not only are they becoming ever more commonplace, they are merging with that other unavoidable presence, the Internet. Web access by cell phone has been around for a while,...

And...Action! Multimedia on the Intranet.
September 1, 2000... Multimedia has become pervasive on the Internet. The technology is easy to use, free or inexpensive, and it has created a new dynamic for interaction. It has beneficial applications to corporate intranets as well. Users are probably already...

Avoiding Copyright Infringement: How to Conduct a Copyright Audit.
September 1, 2000... A week rarely goes by without a phone call or email from a librarian or marketing executive asking me about the legality of reproducing print and electronic documents. Although the majority of inquiries come from those employed by corporations,...

Recommended Reading.
September 1, 2000... This issue's Hardcopy looks at some ways to help your organization become more effective. These books will help you develop long-term strategies for your organization, including ecommerce and competitive intelligence initiatives. ***...

The Last Mile.(Online services and devices)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Telecommunications industry experts use the phrase "the last mile" to refer to the distance between the local telephone office and your house. Wiring that last mile can be difficult and expensive. For the phone companies, it's the most...