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Searcher articles from October 2004
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Searcher archives from October 2004
The unknown known.(Searcher's Voice)
October 1, 2004... On Feb. 12, 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld uttered the immortal words, "As we know, there are known knowns. These are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do...
Looking for good art: web resources and image databases.(Part Two General and U.S. Tools)
October 1, 2004... The infrastructure behind art image databases forms the core of Part 2 of this series of articles. The metadata problem, both the lack and inaccuracy of information describing image content, poses a significant challenge for both searchers and...
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science revived.
October 1, 2004... In a previous Searcher article ("National Commission on Libraries and Information Science: Why Not?," February 2003), I wrote, "The future of NCLIS is in doubt. Funding is far from certain.... With the public unaware of its existence, much less...
Quilting: the story of an obsession.
October 1, 2004... We all have hobbies. Some of us dedicate a large part of our lives to them while others just dabble from time to time. I know people who spend hours in their admittedly impressive gardens. My neighbor paints portraits; his wife loves writing...
Good things come in small packages, or, Findory gets personal.(Web Mastery)(personalized news search software)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... Small Web search and software development companies do good for searchers, but often we know very little about the people who run them. When Google, Yahoo!, MSN, or Ask Jeeves announce something new, we all hear about it. Of course, all of...
Multifaceted search and the Search Engine Summmit.
October 1, 2004... The electricity at Information Today, Inc.'s first annual Search Engine Summit in May was as visible as buzz can be. It wasn't about new features or best practices or renewed licenses. It was about Google's pending IPO--an event that promises...