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Searcher articles from May 2001
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Searcher archives from May 2001
The High Price of Nothing.
May 1, 2001... The other day I had a depressing experience. A client called wanting a literature search on a person's name. I've dealt with this client before, in fact for many years, and I know that they usually want some dirt, if they can get it. (The...
Derwent on Delphion: An Experiment.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... The Derwent World Patents Index is unquestionably the most important resource available to patent information professionals for subject-searching international patents. In chemical and polymer areas, its generic search capabilities complement...
Wireless Web Searching and Google Redux.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 1, 2001... My wife and I recently spent a week in Key West. Judy is the librarian in the family, and she researches any destination we travel to as if we were on a CIA mission. She consults Web sites for local restaurants and interesting shops and prints...
I Got the Power: Alternative Energy Resources on the Web.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 1, 2001... I've done it again. I've just spent a bunch of money on a gadget that I may never use. But it was so cool, and it was way below retail at my at my favorite off-price emporium, so I couldn't resist. What did I buy? A wind-up flashlight from...
How a Search Engine Works.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 1, 2001... Search engine is the popular term for an information retrieval (IR) system. While researchers and developers take a broader view of IR systems, consumers think of them more in terms of what they want the systems to do -- namely search the Web,...
Playing Twenty Questions or Subscription Databases to Test Low-Cost, Free, Online Service for End-User.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 1, 2001... Since 1999, when I last looked at low-cost options to traditional databases, libraries have increased their spending on databases from $17 million to over $50 million per year [1]. Depending on the individual library's mission, these databases...
Doing Business with the Federal Government: The Non-Military Executive Agencies.(Government Activity)
May 1, 2001... The Internet acts as a facilitator. The Internet offers a medium that organizes, packages, and disseminates a wide range of information -- including both the visible Web (news, video, audio) and the invisible Web (databases, documents,...
The Searching Quagmire.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 1, 2001... Search engines are just computer software, machinery obeying instructions. Gathering and sifting through a sizable portion of the World Wide Web, in an ideal world, would occur at the same instant, cover every informative site, and perfectly...
CORRESPONDENCE.(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2001... Last Bastion
I am a librarian and have been one since 1977 (at the infancy of technology in the workplace, libraries, etc.), on the cusp as it were of significant change in libraries. While I usually enjoy your editorial's comment, I was...