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This page lists articles published in Information Highways magazine at the EContent Institute under the Web Search Alert column. Annotations note the content and give brief updates on the state of the tools (or existence) today.
Getting virtual at your public library: Most public libraries in Canada and the United States provide free over-the-Internet access to newspapers, magazines, and specialized sources that cannot be obtained from the public Web. (March / April 2005)
Getting personal with search: There are several new tools to help the researcher save and revisit search results. Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and A9 have features for saving and organizing results, and Looksmart's Furl Net helps you save whole pages. (January / February 2005)
Tinkering around in the Web Search Garage: Review of and recommendation for Tara Calishain's new book about web searching, strategies and tools, Web Search Garage. (November / December 2004)
HighBeam: The research engine: HighBeam Research combines the premium content from 2,800 sources in eLibrary with a meta-search engine of the web. Additional features include Executive Search, a people search engine, and a Reference look-up section. (September / October 2004)
Gigablast - an alternative search engine: Matt Wells offers an alternative to the near monoculture of Google and Yahoo with the Gigablast search engine, an attractive and effective search engine that uses a different relevance ranking algorithm and is much less commercial. (July / August 2004)
Toolbars - Don't surf the web without one - What they do and what to look for. Mentions Google, Ask Jeeves, Copernic Meta, Vivisimo, Groowe, Hotbot. (May / June 2004)
News junkies: Get your fix (Part two) - News junkies have other sources for searching news -- AltaVista News, AlltheWeb News, and RocketNews. (March / April 2004)
News junkies: Get your fix (Part one) - News search engines allow readers easier access to top stories and short-term archives from hundreds of news sources. Part One looks at Google News and Yahoo News. (January / February 2004)
Taking Shortcuts - Shortcuts at Yahoo and Ask Jeeves will tap into dictionaries, weather information, maps, yellow pages, measurement conversion tables, news sources, and popular subject categories. Google and Alltheweb will do calculations and conversions. (November / December 2003)
Multimedia Search - Find audio and video with Singingfish, or dip into the collections at Altavista and Alltheweb. For transcripts of U.S. radio programs, use SpeechBot. (September / October 2003)
Search Query Saving Tips - the saved search: why and how to save Web searches. (July / August 2003)
All-in-one page will save time on reference types of questions where a quick fact or definition is needed. (May / June 2003)
Just Googling Playful and useful ways to use Google - lots of good tools being created in Google Labs and by independent players. (March / April 2003)
Meatier meta-searchers Reviews 4 top meta-search engines. (January / February 2003)
Getting Around AND Most search engines look for ALL the words. How can we get around this to look for alternatives? (Information Highways, November / December 2002)
Monitoring Web Pages Describes the benefits of using a web-page monitoring service and recommends both web-based services and software. (Information Highways, September / October 2002)
Open Directory Project - Dark Horse (Dec 1999 - Jan 2000)
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