Search engines: news and updates.
Dialog, has significantly enhanced its Dialog Profound(r) Researchline(tm) service by adding highly valued market and industry data and analysis provided by 20 new information providers. Market research firms now supplying the recently added content to Researchline include: Aberdeen Group, Cahners In-Stat, Decision Resources, Gartner, Inc., Semico Research Corporation, Simba Information, Wintergreen Research and The Yankee Group.
www.dialog.com http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=1424eBizSearch is an experimental niche search engine that searches the web and catalogs academic articles as well as commercially produced articles and reports that address various business and technology aspects of e-Business. The search engine crawls websites of universities, commercial organizations, research institutes and government departments to retrieve academic articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles, and published statistics and facts.
http://gunther.smeal.psu.edu/index.htmlGoogle, developer of the largest performance-based search advertising program, announced on 23rd April, 2003, that it had acquired Applied Semantics, a Santa Monica, California-based producer of software applications for the online advertising, domain name and enterprise information management markets. May 8.
http://www.searchengineethics.com/03-news/05-google1.htmWith luck and brains, the
Google search service has won the hearts and minds of millions and built a booming business. Watch out: Microsoft wants in. “All eyes on Google,” Forbes, May 26.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0526/100.htmlOne of Silicon Valley's favorite parlor games is guessing when
Google will go public. Though CEO Eric Schmidt says an IPO isn't imminent, here's a sign that Google is at least thinking of testing the public waters: It has hired respected former CSFB analyst Lise Buyer, 43, to be what she calls "official lug-nut checker." “Google finds a good analyst,” Adam Lashinsky,Fortune, April 29.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,447870,00.htmlThomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), and leading provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community, today announced the launch of a new home page for its showcase Web site
www.thomsonfn.com . This is the first in a series of changes to improve the sites' usability, navigation and content. Press release May 5.
http://www.stockhouse.ca/news/news.asp?tick=TOC&newsid=1665745FirstGov.gov is the U.S. Government's official web portal. It provides a comprehensive search of government information including over 51 million web pages. The
Vivisimo Clustering engine will automatically cluster FirstGov search results into meaningful subject categories.
http://vivisimo.com/form?form=FirstGovAdvancedInternet sites with information you can use.
Bloggling Headline News Daily collects from across the Internet 20,000 posts, sorts them, sifts them and then presents to its human editors the robot's best guess. Then human editors work through the posts and pick the best of the best to serve up. Entries are sorted into over 130 subject categories.
http://blogging-news.infoGoogle Alert runs daily Google searches for you and emails you whenever new results appear. You can use Google Alert to automatically keep track of anything on the web. Many people use Google Alert to keep track of what the web is saying about them, their interests or any projects they are involved in.
http://www.googlealert.com/The
Lookup Directory provides over 22 ways to simply look up items from addresses, phone numbers, locations, demographics, zip codes, campaign contributions, nonprofit organizations and more.
http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htmThe
ResourceShelf is a daily weblog covering resources and news for information professionals. Includes good descriptions and wide range of sources. Run by Gary Price, co-author of ‘The Invisible Web.’
http://www.resourceshelf.comA free tool, the idea is to let users enter in the amazingly long URLs that dynamic web sites provide and in its place, receive a manageable "
Tiny URL" that can be sent to others via email without worry of the link breaking.
http://tinyurl.com/Tornado Insider released the third annual Tornado100 list
featuring Europe’s top 100 emerging private tech companies. The list represents the most promising, and innovative emerging companies in the European IT and biotech sectors.
http://www.tornado-insider.com/tornado100/Yahoo! recently launch a newly re-designed home page that features a cleaner layout and a better showcase for advertisers. The home page overhaul comes as the Web portal has introduced pronounced changes throughout the site, adding fees to services that had previously been offered for free and placing large, animated ads in popular areas such as finance, sports, news and e-mail, among others. Search Engine Optimization Ethics, May 8.
http://www.searchengineethics.com/03-news/05-yahoo1.htmJust seven months after
Yahoo made a major change to its search engine, the New Yahoo Search has now been unveiled. What's different? Quite a bit, but the useful new additions don't detract from the previous changes. “Yahoo’s search engine continues evolving,” Search Engine Report, May 6.
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2201931
New products.
The Fuld-Gilad-Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence, sponsored by The Financial Times of London, is offering five days of
core intelligence certification courses in London on May 19-23. The courses will cover analytical tools, techniques and concepts, ranging from the fundamentals of collection to more advanced competitive blindspots and cross-competitor strategic analysis. For information, contact Lynne Smith at
lsmith@academyci.com.
Hitwise announced the availability of its online competitive intelligence service for the US market. Hitwise currently monitors how more than 10 million US Internet users interact with over 200,000 online businesses, across 150 industry categories daily. May 8 press release.
http://www.optinnews.com/read-article.php?id=1725Growth is an imperative for all public mining companies, but competitive pressure makes it difficult to find significant shareholder value in acquisitions and other transactions. In the search for areas of competitive advantage, one rich resource remains largely untapped--your company's own staff. Hidden in the mass of rumors, gossip, and other information flowing through the company on a daily basis are valuable clues and insights--if only they could be recognized and captured.
Metals Economics Group's Acquisition and Competitor Intelligence System (ACIS) does just that. The ACIS is an intranet-based business solution focused on acquisitions, divestments, deal-making, portfolio analysis, strategic planning, and competitor intelligence at all levels of a company.
http://www.minesearch.com/catalog/pages/acis_details.htmSynapse, the Knowledge Link Corporate, a developer of custom taxonomies and taxonomy management software, has launched a new web service that is designed to help companies identify and acquire professional taxonomies. E-Content Magazine, May 6.
http://www.econtentmag.com/ecxtra/2003/2003_0506/xtra.html#4Verity has announced Verity Federator, which seamlessly integrates the search systems of Verity Ultraseek (formerly Inktomi Enterprise Search, which Verity acquired in December 2002) and Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E) customers. The new offering is also said to be designed to allow customers to leverage K2E’s advanced classification and personalization functionality across all content, including third-party content sources and applications, regardless of where the content is stored. May 5.
http://www.kmworld.com/news/index.cfm?action=readnews&news_id=2833Searching reviews and tips.
Daypop now allows the ability to do meta-tag searching.
http://www.danchan.com/weblog/daypop/62457Through the Internet, Microdoc News located and qualified 545 university students to participate in a study of
Google searching behavior. An objective of the study was to find how expert users formulate queries and to see if there is anything that non-expert users can learn from such query building. “How experts search Google,” MicroDoc News May 6.
http://www.microdocs-news.info/2003/05/06.htmlJudging from recent legal events and recent survey data, protecting your
online anonymity could be getting a lot tougher. From identity theft to cyber-stalking to new rules for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) about disclosing the names of their users, staying anonymous in cyberspace is becoming a tricky business. “Staying nameless on the net,”Sebastian Rupley, PC magazine, May 5.
http://security.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,3973,1055135,00.aspPerhaps the greatest threat to our ability to perceive novel questions is to apply a technological solution. These days, we simply type a keyword and the
search engine does the rest. But this is tantamount to dumbing down. Our tireless pursuit of 'better' search engines overlooks the fact that we are abrogating our obligation to think, in the misplaced belief that what a search engine actually does is search. “Search engines make us dumb,” Jonathan Gordon-Till, May 1.
http://www.vnunet.com/Analysis/1140721When it comes to
search engine robots, think simply. Lots of good content and text, hyperlinks the robots can follow, optimization of your pages, topical links pointing back to your site, and a sitemap will help insure the best results when the robots come visiting. “Search engine robots, how they work, what they do, part 2,” Daria Goetsch, Search Engine Guide, May 6.
http://www.searchengineguide.com/goetsch/2003/0506_dg1.htmlWhoever is the first to learn how to write effective press releases, marketing white papers, and ezine-newsletter content that generate leads as well as publicity wins the race. “
Search engines and future hit history of public relations,” Traffik, May 5.
http://www.traffick.com/article.asp?aID=142Search engines are essentially massive full-text indexes of web pages. The quality of the indexes, and how the engines use the information they contain, is what makes -- or breaks -- the quality of search results. “How Search Engines Make Sense of the Web,” Chris Sherman, SearchEngineWatch, May 5.
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2200541 General readings of interest.
Blogs are a direct, one-to-many vehicle for communicating ideas. They expand an individual's ability to communicate. They are fresh and timely. The blogger, in order to maintain interest, must communicate often. Blogs enable a single person to share ideas, insights, and useful knowledge with an audience. Two important characteristics are that they are written by a person who is knowledgeable and passionate about the topic, and that they are written in a "real voice." “Adapting blog technologies to corporate e-newsletters,” Todd Brehe, May 9, 2003.
http://www.optinnews.com/read-article.php?id=1718 Dashboards depicting time-series analysis allow managers to spot trends and, in turn, manage operations for ROI. Business intelligence benefits seem limited only by IT's creativity. “Dashboards come into view,” Peter Bochner, IT Toolbox.
http://bi.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=2149 The Library of Congress Research Centers, Science and Technology Reference division have a comprehensive online retrospective of
Harley Davidson. “Hog heaven: celebrating 100 years of Harley Davidson.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/harley100/ Here are six rules to make sure you connect with your listeners and leave them wanting more. “
Keynote like a pro,” Jeff Wuorio, Business 2.0, April.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,47799,00.html?nl=whnThere are many software solutions to the
knowledge-management problem. But it's up to people to know what to do with the information before them. Security is important. But for many companies, the insufficient distribution of crucial information is more dangerous than illicit distribution. Any decision someone at a company makes is based on information, so the quality of the decision is based on the quality of the information supporting that decision. pushing relevant information to the top of someone's attention list is critical. “When Google Isn't Enough,” Jimmy Guteman, Business 2.0, May 2.
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,49320,00.htmlSeven commandments for
marketing and brand building are being chiseled onto new stone tablets. Following them...well, religiously (!) is now essential for compelling customers to embrace your brand. “The seven commandments of great marketing,” David Sudjian. May 6.
http://www.marketingprofs.com/3/sudjian1.aspEnterprise
portals tend to be as unique as the companies that deploy them, and recent findings in a report from Line56 Research,
Portal and Web Application Critical Factors Study, suggests vendors would be wise to keep this in mind. May 8
http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=4642There's been a lot of discussion here and elsewhere about building good
PowerPoint presentations. With all due respect, says Michael, these discussions miss the point. The difference between a good presentation and a lousy one has nothing to do with slides. “Why PowerPoint quality is meaningless,” Michael Fischler, May 6,
http://www.marketingprofs.com/3/fischler8.asp An aggressive, business process oriented approach to knowledge and information management, when combined with traditional information discipline, will create value. There is some work being done on
valuing information and knowledge, and developing metrics to demonstrate and assess the value of information assets. “Beyond the Data Warehouse: The Value of Information,” John Ladley, May 2003.
http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=68&EdID=6732copyright Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals,
scip.online, issue 31, May 8, 2003.
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