Eight years since the launch of Google News, the information directory continues to grow as one of the company's most important products and the internet's most influential news portal. Google today indexes news from more than 50,000 sources in 30 languages.
Sophia Search brings a different approach to searching information in the enterprise to market in the form of a search engine tool that understands the relationship between related sets of content. Rather than taking the approach to indexing that relies on taxonomy and ontology, Sophia search engine relies on a Contextual Discovery Engine.
Fairview Research has acquired IFI Patent Intelligence from Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions. IFI is the leading producer of value-added U.S. patent databases and indexing services.
The Web Indexing Special Interest Group of the American Society for Indexing annually awards a deserving indexer the annual Web Indexing SIG Award for excellence in web site indexing. This is done to encourage high quality web site indexes and to promote the web indexing work of professional indexers. Surprisingly, there were no 2010 winners “due to a lack of quality submissions.”
A number of new Internet search engines created by religious entities seek to filter out queries from Web users censoring what they deem as inappropriate findings.
Google has made searching better yet again. Apparently, with their all new Realtime search, the searches will come to you live after just one entry. You can search for one subject and see real time updates roll in to your browser.
Group Logic has released a new version of ArchiveConnect, its File System Archiving (FSA) solution for Mac desktops.
Students and professionals in library and information science should know about E-LIS: Eprints in Library and Information Science. It is a discipline-specific, open-access repository containing thousands of scholarly articles on library and information science.
EBSCO has announced that the University of Liverpool has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery solution. This comes just following the announcement that Indiana University had also joined their client list.