Web Search--AllTheWeb AllTheWeb: An Essential and Must Use Search Engine
Those of you who read this weblog on a regular basis are most likely aware of my very positive feelings about AllTheWeb.Com as an essential general web search tool. Today, news that ATW is claiming a slightly larger database than Google. I wouldn't be surprised to see Google up their total in the next few days. The announcement also claims that AllTheWeb is refreshing their complete database every 7-11 days. More on this later after we run a few tests. Regardless of these new claims, it's ESSENTIAL that information professionals use more than a single general web search tool. ATW is now "the engine" in the number two spot and should be a "must use" tool by all searchers. Actually, I've been using ATW more and more as my first choice and have been impressed. By the way, see this past Friday's and Saturday's postings for a bit more ATW news and comment. See Also: Search Engine Showdown, the definitive place to find engine size analysis and more. See Also: "AlltheWeb's Engine Chugs Past Google" (via AP, includes a comment from Google)
Online Industry--Gale Group
Source: Information Today NewsBreaks "Gale Group to Digitize Most 18th-Century English-Language Books, Doubles InfoTrac Holdings"
From Barbara Quint's article, "Apparently they only count in hundreds at Gale Group: hundreds of sources, hundreds of clients, and now hundreds of years. Gale Group has announced a mammoth 20-million-page project that will bring to the Web most books published in the English language during the 18th century. Proclaimed as �the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken,� it reflects cooperation by The British Library and other leading research libraries. In another announcement, Gale has more than doubled its InfoTrac holdings with the integration of 5,400 titles from ingenta. This makes a total of more than 9,000 electronic periodicals. �We own the 18th century,� boasted Mark Holland, publisher in Gale�s U.K. office (and it sounded like he meant more than just the title of Gale�s prospective digital edition of The Eighteenth Century). When finished, the project will include the full-image text of 150,000 English-language titles published between 1701 and 1800. Gale plans to complete the project in time to put the product on the Web beginning in June 2003."
Professional Reading Shelf The June issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Online
Here are the titles of just a few of articles:
"Evaluation of Digital Library Impact and User Communities by Analysis of Usage Patterns"
"The KYVL Kentuckiana Digital Library Project: Background and Current Status"
"Virtual Museum of Canada - Promoting Canada's Heritage Online"
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