Archive for October, 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009
The recent controversy about the Google Book Search Settlement seems to have taken up peoples' Google-watching attention so much that advances in the way GBS actually works have been getting overlooked. Several notable improvements were made during the summer, for example, that got very little recognition. Another change that seems ...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Searching for talk on Google Books and the Settlement since Judge Denny Chin delayed the decision on October 7, I've been finding very little -- What had been a stream of chatter in Twitter searches has turned into a trickle. I found a little example reflecting this today that I ...
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Many possible takes on this picture. What comes to my mind first is the idea of the Attention Economy --The idea that in the days of the traditional library, before the Internet, information was a limited resource. Libraries could afford to work under the assumption that "we've got the good ...
Posted in Google, Libraries, Library Catalog, PicsYes, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Google Health OneBox is a boost for NLM's MedlinePlus -- As discussed previously, though, a few tweaks could make it an even bigger boost. A problem not discussed in the previous article is the "MedlinePlus" name -- It has little user recognition, and therefore gets considerably less traffic than it ...
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
In August, Google launched Google Health OneBox (left). This puts the National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus right at the top of the search results, and is potentially a valuable new source of traffic for NLM.
There are factors, however, that work against MLP -- The three prominent links on the ...
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
[This article accompanies previous article: Tagging in Hardin MD]
Soon after the launching of Hardin MD, in 1996, we began adding keywords in the hidden META keyword field (The first pages for HMD in Internet Archive [Dec, 1998] show them on all pages checked.) We began checking to see if HMD ...
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