Searcher articles from March 2001

Searcher archives from March 2001

On Myths: A Letter to Non-Subscribers.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 2001... Usually writing this column presents the easiest and most pleasant task in this editor's working life. However, every now and then it does drag a little, not so much writer's block as writer's speed bump. Fortunately, there is one instant...

Tired? Put Your Feet Up.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Studies show that some 44 million Americans watch the TV while surfing the Net. Now they can do it in a little more comfort. Microsoft's WebTV Networks has joined with La-Z-Boy Inc. to market a recliner chair called the Explorer, designed for...

Google, Disintermediation, and the Palm Beach Ballot.(Government Activity)
March 1, 2001... When the struggle broke out over recounting Florida's votes in the 2000 presidential election, many people fell quickly into predictable camps based on their political leanings. One side tended to emphasize disenfranchisement in Palm Beach due...

Data in the Corporate Universe: It's a Dangerous World Out There.(News Briefs)
March 1, 2001... Deception in the corporate world has a long and healthy history, one limited neither to the securities arena, to corporate deeds, nor even to actions taken by adults. Stories date back to England's war with Napoleon, when a messenger arrived in...

NEXIS.COM: Master of Its Domain.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... It has been over 2 years since LEXIS-NEXIS introduced its first Web-based product, LEXIS-NEXIS Universe. In "Web time," 2 years may seem a long wait for a Web-based interface upgrade, but LEXIS-NEXIS has used the time methodically to not only...

Charlatans, Leeches, and Old Wives: Medical Misinformation.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 2001... Vaccinations cause the diseases they're supposed to prevent! Drinking hydrogen peroxide will flush out your system! Milk is the best source of calcium! A 5-year-old boy suffering from low libido should take Viagra! Deep coughing at the onset of...

Bookmarks: Our Unruly, Unmanageable Friends.(Product Information)
March 1, 2001... It has been said that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. It appears the same could be said about bookmark management tools; unfortunately, I don't see anyone's door being knocked down by satisfied hordes....

Gardening Resources on the Web.(News Briefs)
March 1, 2001... Gardening is America's number-one leisure activity, enjoyed by one in three adults. Why do we garden? Survey responses suggest we like being active and out of doors, we garden to relax, and we find creative expression in the "slowest of the...

Missing in Action: Librarians as Market Researchers.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 2001... On December 19, 2000, the New York Times Web site carried an article by Stuart Elliott that noted the opening of Intelligex Inc. in New York, the second entry in the fledgling world of online custom market-research exchanges." The first entry...

Curb Cuts on the Information Superhighway: Making the Web Accessible.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
March 1, 2001... The power of the Web is in its universality Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web I remember being pregnant, waddling around UCLA, trying to...

Euro Netters.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Europeans use the Web around half the time that U.S. users do. In October 2000, for example, U.S. users spent an average of 10 hours, 4 minutes online, while Europeans averaged 6 hours. However the increase in usage by U.S. users was only 4.9...

CORRESPONDENCE.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2001... Bot Says "But..." In response to the article in the December issue of Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals, "Shopping Bots: Santa's Electronic Elves" [Irene McDermott's "Internet Express" column in the November-December 2000...

More for Less.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The Association of Research Libraries reports that from 1986 to 1998, prices for scholarly journals rose 207 percent, approximately four times the rate of increase of the U.S. Consumer Price Index. During the same period, university library...

Buy, Buy That Book.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... In 1999, the number of book purchases made online in the U.S. more than tripled the number made in 1998, reaching an estimated 57 million books sold. This still represents less than 10 percent of the total books purchased. Online purchasers...

U.S.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Web pages continue to grow by an estimated 5 million pages a day. Over 380,000 new domain names are registered weekly.

Those Ads That Pay for It All.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Even with the collapse of the "dot-com" boom, advertising on the internet continues to grow steadily -- encouraging, because usually "dot-coms" themselves advertised on Web sites at a ratio of two-to-one over traditional advertisers. In the...

The Eternal Question: How Big Is the Web?(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Of course, it depends upon what's being measured (pages vs. sites) and who's doing the measuring (a traditional praying for slower growth vs. a dot-com living and dying in the Net Economy). However, for those who prefer the latter, Google has...