Department of Defense "Memex" Project

Memex is projected by DARPA as the next generation in search technology . DARPA envisions four benefits from this project:

Development of next-generation of search technologies to revolutionize the discovery, organization and presentation of domain-specific content Creation of a new domain-specific search paradigm to discover relevant content and organize it in ways that are more immediately useful to specific tasks Extension of current search capabilities to the deep web and nontraditional content Improved interfaces for military, government and commercial enterprises to find and organize publically available information on the Internet.

Richi Jennings has collected comments about the ongoing development of MEMEX.

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Google for Educators

Google for Educators is a site that highlights Google tools and search utilities useful for educators, including the ability to create custom Google searches. This page does not seem to be updated on a regular basis -- one featured utility, Picnik, was closed six months ago.
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