Web Portals--Yahoo New Resource: "Yahoo Education"
From the news release, "-- As the new school year begins, Yahoo! today announced the launch of Yahoo! Education (http://education.yahoo.com), a free resource that enables educators at the college, high school and middle school levels to easily create a virtual classroom environment and communication center for their students. Through this new service, professors and teachers can extend the traditional classroom onto the Internet by posting class rosters, calendars, and syllabi, and by connecting with students through private classroom message boards and e-mail. Yahoo! also announced new agreements with three leading providers of education materials -- Bartleby.com, Britannica.com, and Houghton Mifflin Company -- who bring together their resources to create the Yahoo! Education reference area." Direct to Yahoo Education
Web Search--FindSame Another Link To Remove, FindSame is Gone
A quick note to alert VAS&ND users that FindSame.Com along with its owner, Digital Intergrity, are no longer online or in business. What did FindSame do? From the FAQ, "Most search engines work on keywords. They find documents in their database that contain the words you enter anywhere in the document. Current search engines compete with each other by trying to make this list "more relevant" to the topic you wanted to find. Digital Integrity searches in an entirely different way. The search takes as input an entire document and returns to you a list of documents that contain any fragment of that document longer than about one line of text. FindSame was used by many to assist in identifying plagarized materials.
Web Search--Google
Source: IndustryStandard.Net A Few Comments from the New Google CEO Eric Schmidt
From the article, "Eventually Schmidt says he foresees taking the privately held company public, but given the poor performance of the market it won't be anytime soon. Nor is the company strapped for cash. Google has received more than $35 million in funding from such well-respected venture capital firms as Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers."
Online Databases Milestones For Two Databases INSPEC just added its 7 millionth record AGRICOLA adds its 4 millionth record.
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