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Wednesday, 28th April 2004

Google Adds News Images to Google Images

Web Search--Google
A Bit of Google Search News
We're IPO free today! (-:
+ Google Adds News Images to Google Images
Here's an example. Images are culled from Google News database. Yahoo Images also offers this feature. The company announced it last week when they quietly relaunched the image database.
+ CrossRef Launches Pilot Program of CrossRef Search, Powered By Google
Another specialized Google interface allows you to search abstracts from nine STM publishers via a single search box. Google has indexed the full text but with most of the searches I ran the full text is only accessible if you either have a subsciption to the database or purchase the individual article. I would imagine that many of the people who have access to the full text already use an interface designed for the specific content. This interface does not allow you to limit your search to a specific data field. You can limit to a specific publisher with site: search. In other words, you're simply doing a free-text search. From the news release, "CrossRef itself doesn't host any content or perform searches-CrossRef works behind the scenes with Google to facilitate the crawling of content on publishers' sites and sets the policies and guidelines governing publisher participation in the initiative." This means that the content has the potential to be found via the Google.com interface. However, as I've said many times (and Danny Sullivan said this week), if it's not in the first few results it's all but invisible to the average searcher. The news release also mentions that CrossRef is also working with other search engines. Yahoo announced their content aggregation program about two months ago. Some organizations are licensing technology from one of many companies and/or ILS vendors that allows the user to search multiple databases (web, fee-based, local) simultaneously with a single interface.

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