Searcher articles from February 2008

Searcher archives from February 2008

Searcher's voice: trust: a bust?(Editorial)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If hope is the thing with feathers, then trust is a warm puppy, a warm puppy not yet housebroken. When it comes to information gathering, you can get into a lot of trouble letting trust substitute for the exercise of...

Baby, you can drive my car (if you can get it to start): auto repair on the Web.(INTERNET EXPRESS)
February 1, 2008... My colleague Lynda is in a funk. "I just spent $2,000 on my old car and it still has an oil leak!" She drives a 1993 Chrysler Eagle Vision that is starting to require almost constant maintenance. She told me, "I knew that I had really bald...

The 51st State: the state of online: tech tools for the American voter and the 2008 Congressional elections.(Live Links)
February 1, 2008... Democracy is not a spectator sport. IT'S AN ACTION GAME. So what do you want to know about your congressional representative or senator? Or even about representatives and senators out of your district or state? Pick up any newspaper (online...

Museum and library websites: beautiful and informative across the ages: museum and library websites offer some of the most enriching learning experiences available on the web, but many of these resources are difficult, if not impossible, to find using search engines.(Live Links)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] While the search string or will often yield some good hits, some of the best material still requires going directly to institutions' websites and using search engines and/or browsing the links that have titles such...

Searching to find: opening up the world with Open WorldCat.
February 1, 2008... Libraries spend millions of dollars each year buying books for their patrons. But while everyone knows about Amazon, not everyone knows about what their libraries have already bought for them. So how in the world does an internet surfer...

The Freebase experience: getting addicted to the world's largest open database.(Live Links)
February 1, 2008... Freebase. What a name for an addictive, easy-to-learn, web-based, collaborative database system. Like Wikipedia, you can sign up for a free account and start adding content--with only a few caveats from the developer--to what could become the...

Text mining patent literature: a case scenario of a methodology for analyzing unstructured data.
February 1, 2008... Analysis of structured data is a common practice for identifying trends. Examining unstructured data is a natural complement to this practice. One approach to such analysis, text mining, can be applied to patent and literature data to elicit...

Best buys.(Directory)
February 1, 2008... HARDWARE Best Computers Mainstream Desktop Apple Computer Co.'s iMac (20' Aluminum) ($1,649), HP's Media Center TV m8100y PC (42199) Business Desktop Lenovo's ThinkCentre M55e ($1,259) Budget Desktop Dell...

Contacts.(Directory)
February 1, 2008... Adobe Systems, Inc. (Acrobat 8 Standard, Photoshop C53 Extended) 345 Park Ave. San Jose, CA 95110-2704 (408) 536-6000 (800) 833-6687 (408) 537-6000 URL: http://www.adobe.com Alienware (Hanger18 HD...