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ChaCha, Yahoo!, and Amazon
New Answer
Services Emerge
Nancy
O’Neill pits a new answer service, ChaCha, which promises
real-time results from human beings, against two of its rivals and her
own searching skills to see if it helps searchers trip the light
fantastic or just trips them up.
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Google Book Search Libraries and
Their Digital Copies
What Now?
Jill Grogg and
Beth Ashmore ask representatives from Google Book Search Library
Project libraries, from coast to coast and sea to sea, how the
libraries will utilize their copies of the project’s
digitized books and how the fair use issue, with lawsuits in
litigation, might impact both the partners and Google itself. |
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Behind a Bamboo Fence?
Evaluating
Sources of Japanese Company Information
Tom Lister, who
frequently uses Japanese-language resources for client projects, checks
to see what’s really available to information professionals
and what sources you need to dig down below the surface information. |
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Searcher
Goes to CES 2007
Like a kid in a candy
store, Richard Oppenheim, eyes a-goggle, walks the aisles at the 2007
Consumer Electronics Show to see what’s of interest to Searcher
readers and anyone who loves
the promise and potential of new electronic gadgets. |
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| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's
Voice
Does
a Googlized world still need information pros? More than ever, says bq. |
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| COLUMNS
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Publishing
Trends
Self-Publishing
and the Book Trade, Part 2: Distribution
In Part 2 of her look at
self-publishing and the book trade, Paula Berinstein tells how to use
intermediaries to get into wholesalers, bookstores, OCLC WorldCat, and
even Google Book Search. |
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Internet
Express
The
Silver Tsunami: Retirement Resources on the Web
Retirement
presents a new set of challenges, from staying healthy to staying out
of the red, and Irene McDermott offers a plethora of Web sources to
help you plan for this phase of your life.
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| DEPARTMENTS
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Contacts
Find the postal and
electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers for all the companies,
products, and people mentioned in this issue.
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