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Where Are We Now ?
The Impact of New Technologies on Teaching & Learning in Our Colleges


Contents:  Invisible Web | Old Pages & Postings | Popularity SEs | Clustering SEs | Image SEs & Directories | Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book" | Evaluated Directories & Portals | Recommended Readings | Features & Updates |

The Invisible (or Deep or Hidden) Web:
"The Invisible Web"
Chris Sherman
"Invisible Web Gateways"
Kevin Elliott
Archive June, 2001
"Google Ventures into the Invisible Web: The Web's First Large-Scale PDF Search"
Archive April, 2001
Finding Old Web Pages & Postings:
Internet Archive
(aka Wayback Machine)
1996 -
Cached Links
Google
N.D.
Google Groups
Listservs, UseNet, NewsGroups
1981 -
Popularity Search Engines:
Google Google Watch
Clustering Search Engines:
Vivisimo
Image Search Engines & Directories:
Ditto.com Google Image Search Graphics, Images, Photographs & Pictures
Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book":
Search Inside the Book FAQ
Amazon.com
How It Works
Amazon.com
The Best Search Idea Since Google
Slate
[Pro]
Amazon Re-Ranks Intellectuals
Slate
[Con]
The Great Library of Amazonia
Wired
December, 2003
Amazon's 'Search Inside the Book'
LISnews.com
[Collaborative Blog]
"Search Inside the Book" - and scare an awful lot of people!
Blogcritics.org
Amazon's New Feature a Service or a Scam?
Audio file
NPR
Evaluated Directories & Portals:
BUBL LINK / 5:15
Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas (UK)
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections Internet Scout Project Librarian's Internet Index Selected Internet Resources
Recommended Readings:
"Yahoo! and the Abdication of Judgment"
by Laura B. Cohen. American Libraries 32(1) (January 2001: 60-62)
"Spelling and Searching the Internet: An Overlooked Problem"
by Edward Proctor,Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 28, Issue 5 (September-October 2002):297-305
"Boolean Operators and the Naïve End-User"
by Edward Proctor, ONLINE, Vol. 26, Issue 4 (July/August 2002): 34-38
Has Google Won? A Librarian Says Students Have More Data Than They Know What to Do With
Steven J. Bell & Scott Carlson
Chronicle of Higher Education
January 23, 2003
Features & Updates:
Search Engine Showdown Features Chart Search Engine Watch Internet Search Engine Update ResearchBuzz Resource Shelf
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