Chronicle.com: Nonprofit Library Group Will Share Book Records With Google In an effort to increase the visibility of librariesâ holdings on the Web, Google and OCLCâformerly known as the Online Computer Library Centerâhave agreed to swap data. Under the arrangement,...
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Neil Netanel writing at Balkinization: Is Google the New "Media Monopoly"? Neil Netanel Microsoft's hastily renewed courtship with Yahoo --this time centered on a merger of the companies' search advertising businesses -- in order to compete more effectively with search...
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City Room: Something Google Doesn’t Want You to See By Jennifer 8. Lee Published: May 19, 2008 Something Google doesn't want you to see: a glimpse of the Lego creations at the Internet company's New York offices, including colorful...
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Seth Finkelstein in The Guardian: There's a cliche that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The latest iteration of the "Wikia Search" project might be summed up as "when you have a Wikipedia, everything looks like...
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Submit Your Picks for Tech Policy Leaders: Nominations Open for the 2008 IP3 Awards! | Public Knowledge: We’re now accepting nominations for our annual IP3 Awards. Each year, Public Knowledge singles out three people who have advanced the public interest...
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The blog Digital Scholarship in the Humanities has an interesting essay on this subject: But how reliable are these electronic texts? Can researchers feel comfortable citing them and using them for text analysis? In my view, the quality of an...
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Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds By Steve Lohr The world’s data centers are projected to surpass the airline industry as...
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John Wilkin writes: Metasearch vs. Google Scholar What the world needs now is not another metasearch engine. Mind you, having more and better and even free metasearch engines is a good thing, but there are already many metasearch engines, each...
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Google is at the forefront of encouraging women to enter technical careers and rise in management. Kudos on this program: Google Announces Winners of Scholarships for Female Technology Students Google recently announced the winners of the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships,...
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