The ReadWriteWeb needs Sexy Librarians

In December, the awesome blog ReadWriteWeb posted a couple of great articles about how librarians are needed (and even linked to Michael Porter’s flickr photo of Michael and yours truly battling it out on Guitar Hero). That’s all dandy!
But the ReadWriteWeb just posted Deconstructing Real Google Searches: Why Powerset Matters … I’d add “real BAD [...]

Alternative Search Engines List

This, of course, SHOULD be coming from a librarian… but whatever. The Read/Write Web has a great list of alternative (as in, not Google) search engines. It looks like it’s a monthly feature on the blog.
This month includes some cool stuff, like:

FindSounds, an audio search engine
PureVideo, and video search engine
A variety of clustering search engines

And [...]

Quintura, a Visual Search Engine

I just discovered Quintura, a new visual search engine interface (found via Robert Scoble’s blog). On the surface, it looks similar to Grokker or KartOO (two other better-known visual search engines).
You can play with Quintura’s online demo, but the real deal is downloading their Quintura Search product. It offers a visual map of searches done [...]

Youtube and Finding Video Tagged IL2006

Anyone else tried hunting for videos from Internet Librarian 2006 in Youtube? It can be done… but it’s not easy!
Here’s the easy way: just click one of the links below (send me your youtube URL if I have left you out!):

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ellyssa
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=travelinlibrarian
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=jasonfleming73
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=daweedrex (this one’s me)

Or do a search in Youtube. I did - I entered the [...]

Finding Sounds

The LibrarianInBlack posted about the Soundogs sound effects search engine. It seems to be pretty cool… But FindSounds is cooler.
FindSounds is a specialized search engine for sound effects and musical instrument samples. You can specify audio resolution, sample rates, file formats, mono/stereo, and file size in the search. And all the sounds found using FindSounds [...]

CIL2006, Day 1: Opening Remarks and Keynote by Chris Sherman

First, for Tom Hogan’s opening remarks:

2380-ish attendees this year!
150 speakers and moderators… wow.
60 exhibitors

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Keynote: Search Engine Update, Chris Sherman
Starting to see true differentiation and divergence among the major search engines:
Ask:

Jeeves retired. first-class search engine, as good as or better than the others
They also have Gary Price
Many new tools. Web Answers - a natural laguage search [...]

Yahoo buys del.icio.us

Wow. Double wow. del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!
Yahoo now owns two of the hottest sites on the planet - del.icio.us and flickr.
2006 should be an extremely interesting year!
yahoo del.icio.us web2.0

Google Blog Search Has Arrived

Check this out - Google Blog Search. It’s just what it says it is - “Find blogs on your favorite topics.”
How does it work? Well… just like Google! You search just like you’d normally do with Google. There are a couple of differences between this and the normal Google:

There’s a date after the title of [...]

Intermediate Search Engines Class

I previously blogged about the Basic Search Engines class I teach once in awhile. So, I thought I’d be thorough and also mention the Intermediate Search Engines class I do.
Both of these classes are taught for the Kansas City Metropolitan Library & Information Network (KCMLIN), a regional library training and resource sharing consortium for the [...]

Google’s Keyhole, Maps, and Local Come Together

(found at the Unofficial google Blog):
I saw Google’s Keyhole for the first time at the Computers in Libraries conference, and thought it was pretty cool. Apparently, Google is starting to combine Google Local, Maps, and Keyhole - look at this image…
That little thought bubble thing with the address is pointing at me! Instead of getting [...]

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