Knowledge Handler

Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques

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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Web Search Blog

Wendy Boswell, the About Guide for web searching, has a blog available at http://websearch.about.com/b/ which provides news about the latest search engine updates and searching techniques.


-D.D.

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Friday, May 01, 2009

Start

Start, which has been on the Web since 1999, is perhaps the oldest web-based natural language search engine. As with Ask.com, users can post natural language queries and generally get information that is on-topic. Start was developed at MIT by Dr. Boris Katz.

At the other end of the temporal spectrum, WolframAlpha.com is a new natural language search engine that is slated to launch this month.


-D.D.

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