From today’s San Francisco Chronicle, this article reviews some alternatives to search engine powerhouses Google and Yahoo, several of which you may have heard of and/or use now, such as clustering engine Vivisimo and Topix.net (which bills itself as “The Internet’s Largest News Site). But other suggested sites may be new to you and worth a try. These include Find.com, focused on sources for business research (in beta, and offering a range of search features that include Boolean operators, stemming, proximity and grouping) and the open source engine Modex (which was unavailable at the time of this posting).
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Daily Archives: July 20, 2004
Innovative Blog Provides Gov Docs in PDF Via P2P
Using P2P applications, Download for Democracy is providing free access to a growing database archive, currently comprising “600 government memos, communications, and reports, all of which were obtained from mainstream media sources, respected legal or academic groups, or the federal government itself.” For background and commentary on this new website, created and maintained by a… Continue Reading
RSS Feeds For High Traffic Tech Sites Stress IT
The implementation of RSS by InfoWorld.com has caused a significant increase in hourly traffic to the site which has resulted in “some aggravating scaling issues,” according to the site’s CTO. [Hot Links] Continue Reading
New Report on Privacy and E-Health Records
On July 14 the Markle Foundation issued this press release and link to the accompanying report, Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare, A Preliminary Roadmap from the Nation’s Public and Private Sector Healthcare Leaders (PDF, 67 pages). Related news: HHS to Present Plan on Transforming Health Care Through Information Technology at National Conference July 21. Health… Continue Reading
New Studies Evaluate US and UK E-Gov Accessibility
Assessing the accessibility of fifty United States government Web pages: Using Bobby to check on Uncle Sam: “This study evaluates the current accessibility of U.S. Government Web pages for people with disabilities. …The home pages of fifty U.S. government agencies were reviewed for accessibility based on Section 508 guidelines. This study establishes that the U.S.… Continue Reading
