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Thursday, 10th January 2002

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Web Search--Northern Light
NL Public Search Shutdown: Letter from Northern Light CEO Placed on Web Site
From David Seuss's letter, "While we have made an all-out effort at the advertising-supported Web search model, we find now that we need to refine our business to focus more exclusively on the needs of business researchers and enterprise customers." You can read more on the NL shutdown here.

P2P (Peer-To-Peer) Search
Future Search
Source: Information Week
Learn About: Open Cola, A P2P Search Engine Preparing for Beta Test
From the article: "OpenCola Ltd. wants to cut through the information glut of peer-to-peer networking. As the company's founder Cory Doctorow puts it, the key is "discovering the things we don't know we don't know." He's not stuttering but identifying a real problem with information searches--it's tough to ask for something until you know it exists." "OpenCola's answer is Folders--P2P collaborative search software that's slated to be on OpenCola.com in late April for public beta testing. It's designed to adapt to users' preferences and provide increasingly relevant content. Users put files of interest--say, an article about security holes in routers--into a folder on their desktop. OpenCola's Folders crawls the network, migrating to the desktops of anyone likely to have the router information."
See Also: "OpenCola�Have Some Code and a Smile" (Technology Review 4/9/01)
See Also: Direct to OpenCola Site

Resource Reviews
Jacs�'s Digital Reference Reviews For January Now Available
This month P�ter takes a look at the Bloomsbury Research Centre and 50states.Com.

Professional Reading Shelf
Reference Linking
Source: Learned Publishing 15.1
"Instant Linking - Delayed Use: Setting Provider Expectations"
From the abstract, "The web with its hyperlinking is a great environment in which to put electronic journals and to encourage linking of texts. But reference links will only be used substantially if readers incorporate them into new patterns of habitual use. In doing so, many users will be in search mode and only some types of user will habitually use reference linking. There needs to be a sufficient number of references that are linked, the right processes to achieve that efficiently, and something that is worthwhile at the end of the link." Full-Text available online (no charge).
See Also: "What is SFX?" (from Learned Publishing 14.4)
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Knowledge Organization
Source: Proceedings of XML 2000
"The Tao of Topic Maps"

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