Web Search--Google Google Announces Web Document Index Increase, Google Groups Out of Beta, More
Quite a busy day for Google. Here's a review. 1) Google Increases Total Number of Documents Available Number now totals over 3 billion documents. This number includes not only includes 2 million web pages (html, pdf, and other formats, 25% of these docs are non-English language web pages) but also Usenet (Google Groups) postings and images (over 330 million). 2) Google Groups Now Out of Beta Search Usenet postings back 20 years. May, 1981 to be precise. 3) News Searching With Google Result sets will now include links, if available, to relevant news stories from selected web based news sources. Example: A search on "George Bush" returns two articles as of 12/11/01. I would not rely on Google as your primary news search tool. 4) Labeling of Recently Recrawled Content For example, notice the "hit" for our blog. The url line now mentions the date the page was last refreshed in the Google database. Btw, Google does an impressive job of recrawling content however, do not assume that the search engine finds all New content from the site. Example, even though Google is recrawling the CNN site several times a week, do not assume they have found all new content. In this type of situation consider using a "site" search tool.
----See Also: Chris Sherman has more on all of this Google news in his Search Day newsletter.
----See Also: Perspective on Engine Size Numbers from Pandia
----See Also: Wired News on Usenet group access via Google
Intranets
Source: Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox Newsletter 10 Best Intranet Designs of 2001
Nielsen provides a Top 10 list and a few overall trends. More is available in a fee-based report.
Libraries
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education It's An Academic Library and a Public Library
From the article, "Over the weekend, Nova Southeastern University celebrated the opening of a five-story, 325,000-square-foot library with an unusual genesis: Half of the building's $45-million construction cost was covered by Broward County, Fla., the county in which the university is located. The building will operate both as an academic facility and as a public library."
Music--United Kingdom
Searchable Databases--United Kingdom Cecille, A U.K. Music Resource Database Set, for November 2002 Debut
From the news release, "The website will be a one-stop-shop for information and will provide a profile of collections at institutional and collection-within collection level, detailing the scope and scale of materials held, access policies and contact details."
New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (4 Items)
-- Scientific Conferences--Databases
Invisible Web worldmeet
Search for info on scientific meetings and conferences from around the world. Impressive!
-- Full-Text Report
Info Quality
Internet Filtering
Source: Kaiser Foundation "Generation Rx.com: How Young People Use the Internet for Health Information"
This report also contains info on the use of filtering software. See Also: Newsbytes Article About the Report
-- Budget--Canada
Source: Department of Finance Canada Budget 2001
-- Capital Punishment--United States--Statistics
Source: BJS Capital Punishment 2001 Summary ||| Full-Text (.pdf)
16 pages .pdf
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