Yearly Archives: 2007

The venerable Statistical Abstracts of the United States for 2008 is now available. See this press release, highlighting statistical trends and new features of this standard reference source.

Check out this report about the invisibility of government information (via major search tools such as Google, Yahoo!, etc. . . . the usual suspects. The document is entitled “Hiding in Plain Sight”. If you don’t want to peruse the … Continue reading →

Wired summarizes finding from Pew Internet & American Life Report. Almost 1/2 (well, 47% to be specific) of Americans search for themselves online. Motivations are myriad. Concern for privacy = 1. . . . full report.

Google’s response to Wikipedia = Knol? “Knol” means “unit of knowledge”. Authors will actually have bylines and wil need to stand by their words. Accountability and information integrity? We shall see . . .

M-W announces its word of the year; it’s woot. Or is it w00t? In any case, this neologism is part and parcel of “leetspeak” or “elite speak”. Jiminy Crickets! Not another language to learn! w00t means “we owned the other … Continue reading →

Ask.com shows its concern for searchers’ privacy by debuting AskEraser. If users turn on AskEraser, their queries will be deleted from Ask.com’s servers. Expunged data includes search/text strings, Session IDs, and IP addresses. A reminder that Ask.com usually ranks @ … Continue reading →

Search Engine Journal rounds up 10 sites to find public domain images. This post also explains the difference between public domain, rights protected, and royalty free . . .

Search Engine Journal summarizes Google’s fastest growing searches of 2007. Interesting (yet no surprise) to note that the hoi polloi is searching for gadgets (e.g., iPhone) and Web 2.0 services (e.g., YouTube, FaceBook, etc.). And celebrities are not too far … Continue reading →

Kudos goes to Sue Lawson, Referece Librarian @ www.ahml.info and NSLS’ RLA group, for bringing search guru Gary Price to the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. A wise person once told me, “Brian, never meet your heroes.” Well, I did. And … Continue reading →

We’ve had Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, CNBC, now AOL has revamped its Money & Finance. This portal is geared for the “power user”. Its chock full of news as well as interactivity and real-time data. Definitely worth a bookmark . … Continue reading →