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Wednesday, 31st October 2001

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Web Search--Northern Light
Happy Birthday Northern Light!
Today NL celebrates its sixth birthday with news of 20 million dollars in financing and a new Chairman of the Board, Gregory Whitten. Whitten is a former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft. In addition to NL having one of the larger web databases, they also provide a very useful database of content from 56 newswires. This content is free to search and use for 2 weeks after publication. Material is added to the database as is moves on the various wire services. Northern Light's Alert service is, in my opinion, one of the most useful free services on the web. Finally, NL has just released another of it's subject focused "Special Editions". The new compilation focuses on Enterprise Information Portals.

Web Search--Google
Source: SearchDay
Google To Make Even More Formats Accessible
Word from Chris Sherman that Google will soon crawl and make even more formats accessible via their engine. Presently, Google is the only engine to crawl and index .pdf material. From Chris's article, "The new file types indexed by Google include Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats, as well as Rich Text Format and PostScript files, according to Google spokesperson Cindy McCaffrey. Search engines traditionally have snubbed these file types in favor of those in the far more common HTML format, which is widely accepted as the universal standard for web pages." According to the article most of the new indexing will be accessible by next week. Some is already online. Google Tip: To limit your search using to a specific filetype, use the syntax filetype:. For example, to limit your search to pdf material the query is filetype:pdf

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources and Documents (2 Items)
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Government--United Kingdom
Full-Text
Source: House Of Parliament Library
Research Paper-House of Lords Reform: Developments Since 1997
55 pages .pdf
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Violence--United States--Statistics
Full-Text
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Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text Report
12 pages .pdf

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