| FEATURES
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Information
for Sale: My Experience with Google Answers
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Jessamyn West
becomes a Researcher for the new Google service and gets more — or is that
less? — than she bargained for.
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A
Call to Action: What Every Searcher Should Know — And Do — About Domain
Names, Standards, and Metadata
Wallace Koehler
looks at ICANN, W3C, and other agencies involved in the murky realm of
digital documentation management.
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Patinformatics:
Identifying Haystacks from Space
Anthony Trippe
focuses on the field of patent information analysis and how trends and
relationships are being more clearly defined through evolving tools, resources,
and Web sites.
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Specialized
Search Engine FAQs
Gary Price gets
specific and highlights the specialized resources offered by three major
search engines: Google, AllTheWeb, and AltaVista.
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Right
Brain, Left Brain: The Home Offices of Design and Information Professionals
Do you telecommute?
Then you might find some inspiration and suggestions from Colette Wallace
on how to turn your office into a more conducive work environment.
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Content Analysis:
An Opportunity for the Analytical Librarian
Mark Solomon shares
what's new in the world of search technology and how the specialized skills
of info professionals can help create new enterprise solutions in and out
of the corporate world.
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Cost
Cutting Or Access Control: OMB Dismantling GPO?
Miriam Drake takes
to task the OMB's plan to decentralize government printing and explains
why its proposal to save money could prove very costly.
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Beyond
the Spider: The Accidental Thesaurus
That robotic spiders
can be powerful and accurate is a given. What Richard Wiggins wants to
know is if spider software can be fine-tuned to find only the very best
hits for the most frequently performed searches.
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| COLUMNS
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Searcher's
Voice
With people awash
in a flood of information, bq ponders the critical state of the generalist
information professional.
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6
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Internet
Express
Irene McDermott,
confessed "serial clicker," helps serials librarians decide if the new
portal from Ulrich's can help keep their patrons supplied with journals
and magazines.
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Tools of the
Trade
Dave Rensberger
attempts to "ease on down the upgrade road" with Microsoft's Wireless Desktop
Keyboard and Wheel Mouse Model R05-00001.
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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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