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Searcher articles from April 2001
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Searcher archives from April 2001
Vendor Knowledge Management.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2001... If the Bard of Avon were to return from his grave today and look out upon the state of the World and its Wide Web, what would he say? Methinks, he would shake his head wisely and sayeth, "TINSTAAFL, TNSTAAFL, aye, there's the rub." In case...
Tracking the Moving Target: Keeping Current with a Capricious Web.(News Briefs)
April 1, 2001... Rrrraaaaaar. Rrrrrrrraaaar! I spot the enemy plane in the distance. Quickly, we draw closer. "Shoot it!" I yell. "Push the button! No, not that button!"
"Fire!" the machine commands.
My son Pete is doing his best, but he is only 5....
You Have Been Misinformed - Now What?: Attacking Dangerous Data.(News Briefs)(Column)
April 1, 2001... Previous articles in my "misinformation" series [1] have focused on detailing types of purposeful misinformation on the Internet and how to protect yourself. Primarily this involves double- and triple-checking any Internet source of...
To Questia Or Not to Questia, That Is the Question.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... Questia Media Inc. [hhtp://www.questia.com/] has a newly launched service claiming to constitute "a scholarly collection with the full text of thousands of books and, coming soon, journal articles. A broad range of tools allow hyperlinking from...
Power Searching Strategies for Success.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2001... This article addresses searchers new to the field. I know you're out there. After all, more than 55 ALA-accredited LIS graduate schools [http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oa/lisdir.html] exist to turn out new information professionals each year. A...
The Dotcom Directory: A Work in Progress.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... Sun Microsystems' advertising claims to have put the @ in dot-com. The Oxford English Dictionary has added "dot-com" to its lexicon. It is no surprise then that there is a Dotcom Directory [http://www.dotcomdirectory.com or...
Combining Command-Driven Patent Searching with Internet Capabilities.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... Based on a talk given at the 2000 International Chemical Information Conference, Annecy, France, October 24, 2000; published in the conference proceedings.
One reason I've enjoyed being a patent searcher for the past 26 years is that the...
Search Engines Keep Plugging...And So Do Their Users.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... When Web workers enter a site, 93 percent of them do so by using bookmarks or internal site links or links to external sites; only 7 percent use Web search engines. Nevertheless, a Roper Starch sample survey showed that 92 percent of searchers...
Road Trip: On the Way to a Post-PC World with a PDA?(News Briefs)(Column)
April 1, 2001... The first real PCs were studies in brain-damaged elegance. There was always that "spin the prop, Wilbur" feel when you sat down in front of them. As addled as they were, we knew there was a revolution in progress. We just didn't know the full...
Online at London Online.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2001... Online Information 2000, nee the International OnLine Information Meeting, was not quite the "business as usual" trade show I expected in December 2000. Granted, for the 24th year in a row, Learned Information produced a showcase for new...
Dot-Lib for Libraries -- Can It Happen? Ask ICANN.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... The ice has been broken. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN has proposed seven new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). [For the full story, see Wallace Koehler's "ICANN and the New 'Magnificent Seven'" in Searcher,...
E-Commerce Going Up.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Census Bureau's new time series covering online purchases and e-commerce have begun to yield some interesting data. Estimated quarterly U.S. Retail E-commerce Sales figures [http://www.census.gov/mrts/www/mrts.html] indicate that online...
It's a New Game Out There.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... More women play games online than men, according to a survey by PC Data Online, by a narrow point-4 percent margin (50.4 percent), though in combined online and offline gaming, men still hold a lead at 55 percent. In first-person shooter games,...