Web Search--Northern Light Northern Light News: Company Will Shutdown Publicly Available Web Search Engine on January 16th
Another search tool bites the dust. It's sad to see this one go as NL is refocusing efforts on enterprise services. From the news release, "As of January 16, 2002, the company will no longer be providing free Web search capabilities to the general public. Northern Light's Special Collection(TM), an online business library of over 70 million pages of full-text, authoritative content from more than 7,100 sources, will continue to be offered to enterprise customers and to the public from Northern Light's Web site. Additionally, the company will offer Web searching to enterprise customers. Northern Light will continue to maintain and update its index of more than 350 million Web pages to provide enterprise customers with search of the Web using Northern Light's patented classification technology, and will continue offering custom Web searching for enterprise customers." Still Free: NL's current news search (56 newswires), search alerts, and Special Editions will continue to be publicly available for free according to a NL spokesperson. See Also: "Bon Voyage Northern Light" (via Search Day ) See Also: "Northern Light Ends Free Ride" (via Boston Herald)
Web Search--Ask Jeeves/Teoma
Web Search--IBM
Source: InfoWorld Teoma Results Coming Soon to Jeeves, New Stuff From IBM
From the article, "Ask Jeeves plans to integrate Teoma search results in its Ask.com site within the next month, syndicate the technology to portals and Web sites in the second quarter, and later this year offer Teoma as a site-specific search tool for enterprises." Ask Jeeves purchased Teoma in September.The article also includes mention of new web data mining technology from IBM, "Later this month, IBM plans to unveil new technology aimed at elevating the process of Web data mining. The technology will be broader than search, combing algorithms from the Clever project with other data-mining algorithms with an emphasis on massive scalability, said Anant Jhingran, director of computer science at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif." Update: See 1/10/02 Post for Ask Jeeves/Teoma Update
Census--United Kingdom--Databases
Source: KableNet "U.K. 1901 Census Site Taken Offline"
From the article, "The Public Record Office has conceded temporary defeat in the struggle to keep its most popular online service running on the web. A spokesperson confirmed on 8 January 2001 that the 1901 census site www.census.pro.gov.uk had been taken offline because of huge demand from users." "The Public Record Office hopes to have the site running again by 14 January 2002."
New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources & Tools (3 Items)
- Children--Statistics
Source: United Nations Full-Text Report: We the Children: Meeting the Promises of the World Summit for Children
This report is available either by chapter or as a single 980k document. Make sure to make note of the Statistical Review. According to the UN site this section review, "presents the most recent data on children's rights and well-being and is based on an exhaustive 150-country data collection effort, the largest such endeavour ever."
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