Searcher articles from July 2004

Searcher archives from July 2004

"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!".(Searcher's Voice)
July 1, 2004... As a genre, mystery novels often display the virtue of commenting on daily life, particularly urban life, with wry wisdom and ironic perception. A recent book from a series featuring a middle-aged, technophobic, Italian police detective carried...

How to buy a car--or not--on the web.(Internet Express)
July 1, 2004... Last summer, my 76-year-old mom was worried. Her 1989 Dodge Spirit was failing in the Southern California heat. Its odometer had ceased totaling the miles. Its crimson headliner separated from the roof and hung in swags that grazed riders'...

Google storms the Webmail market: on April 1, 2004, the world's dominant search engine company stunned the planet by announcing a new Webmail service that will provide each subscriber with a free, 1-gigabyte mailbox. The new service, Gmail, will bring in revenue by placing targeted ads alongside each message displayed.(Gmail)
July 1, 2004... Google's Gmail announcement shook the Internet community in general and the Webmail industry in particular. A 1-gigabyte mailbox! Impossible! That amount of storage raises the bar for free e-mail space by a stunning factor: over 100 times the...

A confederacy of databases: federated search flying under many flags.
July 1, 2004... A surplus of information rushes out to meet a collective deficit of knowledge in Web surfers. Do librarians rue the day the barricades came down? Are they expected to teach users how to replace them? Will the lessons lead to their performing...

Online before the internet: early pioneers tell their stories.(Interview)
July 1, 2004... Previous installments in this series have featured interviews with Carlos Cuadra, creator of SDC's ORBIT Search Service; Roger Summit, originator of Lockheed's Dialog; and Richard Giering, developer of the technology underlying LexisNexis. This...

To chat or not to chat--taking another look at virtual reference: Part I.
July 1, 2004... At this point, we are about 4 years into the virtual reference "phenomenon"--also described as a "movement," an "explosion," and sometimes even a "fad." Thousands of articles have appeared on the subject. (Pity. poor Bernie Sloan who tries to...

Organize the disorganization.(Tools of the Trade)(Product/Service Evaluation)
July 1, 2004... I am one of the most organized people in the world--ask anyone who knows me. You wouldn't know it to look at my desk, but once thing., are put away, they are really organized and I can find anything. Many many years ago, in a far off universe...

Use branded deliverables to increase recognition and visibility.(Brand 'Em)
July 1, 2004... The concept of branding has come a long way from the days when ranchers used hot irons to mark and track their cattle. For decades, marketing professionals have used branding to differentiate and build name recognition for their company's...

Text mining for reputations.(SCOUG Workshop Spring 2004)
July 1, 2004... The annual, day-long SOOUG (Southern California Online Users Group, http://www.scougweb.org) meeting on April 16th, "The New Gold Rush: Text Mining Finds the Motherlodes," propelled wide-eyed information professionals into the exciting future...

Contacts.(Directory)
July 1, 2004... 24/7 Reference Metropolitan Cooperative Library System (MCLS) 3675 East Huntington Drive Suite 100 Pasadena, CA 91107 (310) 391 7444 (626) 683-8244 Internet: susan@247ref.org URL: http://www.247ref.org Stephanie C....