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om Googlejournalistik och Googlestatistik:

Ask a silly question....


From the nice folks at justfuckinggoogleit.com


This is what research has come to!

www.ysearchblog.com

Yahoo has started a search blog which may be if use. They accept comments, which may mean that they will answer questions about advanced searching, search syntax and search problems.
Hopefully they will give advance info on developing techniques.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics [pdf]
http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev_en.php?ID=2867_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

Established in 1999, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) was designed
to meet both the needs of UNESCO Member States and to provide the
international community with a wide range of statistical information in
order to "analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of their programmes and
to inform their policy decisions." The UIC is hosted by the University of
Montreal, and performs work around four primary themes, including education,
literacy, culture & communication, and science & technology. Overall, the
site is a remarkable source of information, including databases, working
papers, country profiles, statistical tables, and methodological material
about the conduct of their research. Several of these works are featured
prominently on their homepage including a working paper on financing the
expansion of educational opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean and
an electronic questionnaire on science and technology.

Sharing folders over the net

I found a nice (and free) service today - FolderShare. It allows you to upload files to a FolderShare library which will then automatically be updated on all connected computers.
I found it simple to use, bug free (so far anyway) and there is no file size limit.
I use it to sync my laptop with both my office (in different cities) comps, to share and update my favourites list and songs for my ipod.

JMC Abstracts över avhandlingar och mastersuppsatser i journalistik och masskommunikation

Journalism & Mass Communication Abstracts, tidigare Journalism Abstracts, är en amerikansk referensdatabas som ligger fritt på Internet och täcker avhandlingar och masters-uppsatser i ämnesområdet journalistik och masskommunikation. Titel, författare, institution, ämne och abstracts är sökbart och täckningen är från 1996 till dags dato. Det går också att söka enbart på avhandlingar eller enbart masters-uppsatser och att bläddra båda kategorierna efter utgivningsår.

UMI digital dissertation abstracts täcker amerikanska avhandlingar i alla ämnesområden och här kan alla avhandlingarna från JMC Abstracts beställas (allt annat än billigt) i fulltext. Många avhandlingar i UMI kan man få ett smakprov av i fulltext genom en 24 sidors PDF. Bara 2003-2004 går att söka på Internet. Masters-uppsatserna i JMC Abstracts finns inte i UMI.

Tack till Internetbrus för denna tips

A One Pager of Country and Regional Search Engines -- ResearchBuzz, July 29, 2004:

Phil Bradley's got a very nice one-pager of what looks like hundreds of country and regional search engines. It's available at http://www.philb.com/countryse.htm .

The countries/regions are listed at the top of the page and range from Africa to Zimbabwe. Below that are listed the search engines. There's no annotation but the new ones are marked with the date added.

news@nature.com - Science News - Georgia State University Library: "news@nature.com

Nature has revamped their news page, now called news@nature.com. It includes the daily science news that was previously in Nature Science Update, plus news channels that offer more subject-specific news (biotech, careers, drug discovery, earth/environment, medical research, physical sciences). You can also browse past news stories by one of 16 subjects.

While much of this site is freely accessible, links with a or denote 'premium' resources and services which will require a subscription as of August 31."

Bra tjänst från vägverket som hjälper dig att ta reda på vem som äger ett fordon.
Kopplar det till nummerupplysningen så kan ni ringa den farliga förare framför er.

VEM ÄGER FORDONET?
Få svar snabbt via smsTjänsten erbjuder dig att enkelt och kostnadsfritt få upplysningar om ägaren till ett fordon. Exempelvis om du snabbt vill få svar på vem som har felparkerat en bil. Tjänsten fungerar hos alla mobiltelefonoperatörer
Gör så här:
Skicka registreringsnumret till nummer 71456 via sms. Exempelvis ”mlb318”. 
Svar i retur från Vägverket.Ett svar (sms) kan se ut så här:MLB318, PB,VOLVO V70 2.4, VIT, KARLKARLSSON,LEASING,BILÄGARGATAN 2, 70181 ÖREBROTjänsten är kostnadsfri. Trafikkostnaden för att skicka ett sms är den vanliga avgiften som din operatör debiterar, cirka 1:50 kr per SMS. 
Teckenförklaring
”MLB318”
= Registreringsnummer.
”PB”
= Personbil. Andra beteckningar på fordonsslag: lastbil (LB), släp, mc, moped, traktor, motorredskap (MRED), terrängvagn (TGV), terrängskoter (TGSK), terrängsläp (TGSL) och buss.
”Volvo V70 2.4”
= Fabrikat, typ/modell.
”Vit”
= Fordonets färg (L=ljus, M=mörk).
”Leasing”
= Om det finns speciella förhållanden exempelvis: LEASING, KREDITKÖP, EFTERLYST, HYRBIL samt UTRYCKNING.
”Karl Karlsson”
= Ägarens namn.
”Bilägargatan 2, 70181 Örebro”
= Ägarens adressuppgifter.
Statusuppgifter
= Eventuella statusuppgifter om ägaren såsom UTGÅR, OBEFINTLIG, UTVANDRAD, AVREGISTRERAD kan finnas.

Google News faces Microsoft rival - News - ZDNet: "Microsoft on Tuesday began testing a new online news aggregation service, as part of its growing search rivalry with Google.

In conjunction with its own MSNBC news site, the software giant is creating a page dubbed 'Newsbot' that will draw news headlines from more than 4,800 other sites, in a manner similar to the Google News service.

The page will let visitors create their own customized news feeds that are powered by MSN's new search technology, the company said. (Google News offers something similar, but it calls them customized alerts.)"

Flawed Online Searches Cost Businesses $31 Billion Last Year: "Flawed Online Searches Cost Businesses $31 Billion Last Year


June 22, 2004

Amid the excitement with search advertising revenue growth and the upcoming Google IPO, a study finds US executives dissatisfied with the performance of online search engines.


According to a survey released by FIND/SVP, 84% of business executives feel that Web searches -- using the generally consumer-centric search engines now available --take longer than they should due to poor results. It is estimated that the loss of productive time using search engines to conduct online research cost businesses $31 billion last year.

The study found that that not only are 71% of business executives frustrated with consumer search engines, 74% are not even confident that the results are reliable. However, despite this lack of confidence, 67% stated it would be difficult or impossible to do their jobs without Web-based search tools.

Business professionals also question the reliability of search information, with 52% only 'somewhat confident' that results originate from credible sources.

'Executives cannot make informed business decisions without the right intelligence,' said Jay Gulick, director of BNET.

Here are additional findings from the study concerning how businesses use online search:
67% of respondents search for financial information and reports
47% seek competitor information
28% spend between 6 to 10 hours per week researching online
45% encounter broken links that do not work
45% are slowed down by registration and/or passwords
39% felt that information found online is outdated


Apparently, despite the importance of online searches, consumer search engines actually hinder productivity."

Google Weblog: "Jew Watch Watch

Google has 'bought' an ad for the search term Jew that goes on top of the first result so they can apologize for their first result!"

CyberJournalist.net: Taking the pulse of Weblogs: "Taking the pulse of Weblogs

At the Interactive Media conference this week Intelliseek announced a new tool called BlogPulse, which is somewhat similar to Daypop, but with a few cool extra features.

BlogPulse, like Daypop, is a great site for keeping track of what's hot and getting new story ideas.

Blogpulse is a machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs. Like Daypop, Blogpulse tracks the top URLs mentioned on Web sites -- but also lets you look up the top URLs on specific days.

In addition to a Key Phrases feature -- similar to Daypop's Word Bursts -- Blogpulse offers a Key People list of names mentioned most often.

Another cool feature is the BlogPulse Trend Tool, that lets you create your own trend graphs of phrasese popular on blogs over time.

Daypop, by the way, has been adding some cool features lately as well. Check out its Blogstats feature, which generates a page of statistics for any weblog in Daypop's index."

Monitor pages, extract new information
http://www.watchthatpage.com/

WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page. You can specify when the changes will be collected, so they are fresh when you want to read them. The service is free!

The Scannery
The Scannery is an invester focused search engine that covers the websites of more than 20,000 public companies in over 65 countries, and growing...

My Scannery Launched ! - The My Scannery website offers a personalized and automated way to track the database of The Scannery. In just two steps you can create a watchlist of keywords and search phrases and we will monitor them for you, analyzed by country

ResourceShelf: "Web Search--Google
You Might Be Missing Material: Backwards Link Searching (Link:) With Google
If you who use Google to find what pages are linking to a specific web page (often referred to as a backward link or a reverse link), you might find the following news of interest. Google might NOT be showing you all of the pages that link to a specific url. I've seen several reports about this issue on search engine optimization sites. Today, I confirmed this as fact with a Google spokesperson. The search engine optimization sites mention that pages only with a certain PageRank are visible. I asked Google to explain the specific criteria used to determine which pages are visible with a link: search. Unfortunately, the spokesperson told me that the company would not publicly release this information. )-: I know it's not a good idea to assume. Nevertheless, most of the seo sites I've seen mention that lower-ranked sites (using Google's ranking methodology) are not visible with a link: search. The problem is that these sites might have useful data, especially when determining what pages link to a particular site.
Example:
+ link:www.fincen.gov
Using ATW, http://www.cftc.gov/cftc/cftcaml.htm is found to link to www.fincen.gov. It was confirmed by viewing the page. A Google search reveals that it has been crawled. However, this page is not revealed when running a link: search with Google.
--
The easiest way to minimize any problems this issue could cause is to use more than one web engine. Of course, this is something we've been saying for a long time. At this point, my favorite engine for this type of searching is AllTheWeb. I use it either as my primary backward link engine or I'll run an ATW search at the same time I use Google.

AllTheWeb also has another advantage. ATW allows you to refine your reverse link searches. Here's an example:
+ link:www.aiip.org [Google]
+ link:www.aiip.org [ATW]
With AllTheWeb you can utilize additional syntax in your query string. For example, what .edu pages link to www.aiip.org?
The use of additional syntax with a Google backward link search is not available.

"Asian Resources for Librarians
Aardvark - Asian Resources for Librarians, has thousands of links to Asian university libraries and over 450 links to Asian databases on the Web (most of them free), conference listings, and much much more. You can get to it at http://www.aardvarknet.info .
Interesting stuff is spread all over the page here, so let's get started. Over on the left you can browse information about Asian databases, from A Sense of History in Singapore to the Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library, included here because it has a China Christian college database. There's also a search engine on the browse page. Over on the left there's also a list of over 300 conferences (nicely described, searchable as above) and links to the current issue and back issues of Access, which describes itself as Asia's Newspaper on Electronic Information Products & Services.
From the front page there are several link categories, including annotation, metadata, copyright, and open access. Next to that is a recommended list -- of Asian Digital Libraries, Asian Library Schools, Publishers, Professional Organizations, and more. And finally all the way over on the right is information relevant to Asian library services

Drugs.com Adds PDR to Their Database
Drugs.com has added the Physicians Desk Reference to their drugs database, and has slightly revamped their search options for finding any of over 26,000 drugs and medications.
From the front page of http://www.drugs.com, you may browse alphabetically or search by keyword. A search for 'osteoarthritis' found 68 results divided into several sections: consumer information, advanced consumer information, PDR professional information, condition guide, and news and related articles.
The first three sections are drug information, which include brief descriptions of drugs and pointers to more extensive information. The one result in the condition guide provides information about osteoarthritis, while the news and articles category provides some related news which in this case mostly seems to be focused on arthritis. The search results provide a headline, summary, and pointer to additional information; unfortunately many of the headlines weren't as useful as they might be ('Capsule archive Late March').
Don't forget to check the other search options across the top of the Drugs.com homepage, including an interactions checker, pill identifier, and an image search."

Wired News: Toward a Weblogging Empire
The former editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter, the once high-flying chronicle of Manhattan's high-tech mania, plans this week to launch a new venture, Weblogsinc, that intends to make a go of publishing business-to-business blogs.

Essentially, Calacanis' goal is to turn Weblogsinc into an umbrella for blogs, a for-profit center that dishes daily on as many as 300 topics and scores revenue from sources like advertising, events and classified listings. He expects the topics to fall under four main categories: media, finance, technology and life sciences

ResearchBuzz -- Internet Research News and Information: "Index of E-Books Available Online

There's a huge index of over 73,000 English-language book texts available at http://www.digitalbookindex.com/ . There's a semi-registration required to use this site.

The actual search page for this resource is at http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm , but before you get to that you'll have to login at http://www.digitalbookindex.com/logina.htm . Logging in requires your name, org, and e-mail address. Be sure to click the checkbox to opt OUT of e-mail from this company--otherwise you're automatically opted in. (ugh.)

Once you're logged in, you'll have several search and browsing options. Search options include author, title, or author and title. Browse options include subjects, author's list (authors are broken out more or less geographically), publishers, and Dewey.

A search for 'Hemingway' found over two dozen results. Search results include author, title, edition, format, price (in this case two items were free) and the publishing organization. Formats here include HTML, text, NetLibrary, and Adobe eBook.)

In addition to the listings of books, the site has several links to ebook readers, information for librarians, and information for publishers. "