From Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), this press release announces new features for AlltheWeb.com that include Automatic Language Mapping (the site determines the user’s language and provides query responses accordingly), new search tools, full support for common Boolean operators, and a Query Language Cheet Sheet.
Teoma 2.0 was launched this week, highlighting the new Advanced Search(BETA) which testing has determined provides improved relevance for search results.
Note: try these search engines. They are robust, multi-function services that offer researchers competitive alternatives to Google.
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Daily Archives: January 22, 2003
RIAA Wins Battle With Verizon Over Customer Data
Judge John D. Bates, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, has ruled in favor of RIAA in their high profile case against Verizon to compel the ISP to provide personal data on customers’ use and online distribution of music obtained using P2P downloading applications. See Recording Industry of America v. Verizon Internet… Continue Reading
Sen. Kennedy's New Site Meets Accessibility Guidelines
Senator Edward Kennedy is breaking new ground with a completely redesigned web site that meets the requirements of The Rehabilitation Act Amendments (Section 508). For more information on how federal agency sites must provide web site access and associated online services for individuals with disabilities, refer to this site, Section 508: The Road to Accessibility,… Continue Reading
FTC Report on Consumer Fraud and ID Theft
This FTC press release provides an overview of their new 2002 National and State Trends in Fraud Identity Theft Report (in PDF). ID theft accounts for 43% of total complaints made, with fraud associated with Internet auctions accounting for 13% of complaints. See also another new FTC report, ID Theft: When Bad Things Happen To… Continue Reading
TIA Activities Under Continued Scrutiny
Via AP, this article indicates that Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph E. Schmitz communicated with Sen. Charles Grassley about an audit on a joint FBI-Pentagon plan to expand the TIA data mining program. The Senator stated in a letter to Attorney General Ashcroft, “I am very concerned that DOJ and the FBI may have… Continue Reading
E-Commerce Dispute Resolution
For the past two years, an ABA task force of the Section of Dispute Resolution has studied the issue of consumer disputes as they apply to e-commerce transactions. A draft of their final report, that included recommendations and proposed guidelines, was released in April 2002. This ABA press release indicates that there is now a… Continue Reading
