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How
a Search Engine Works
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Elizabeth Liddy
lifts up the hood, so to speak, of the typical search engine and explains
what is involved, from the document and query processors, to the search
and matching functions, pointing out how specific features can make a good
match to a query.
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Playing
Twenty Questions to Test Low-Cost, Free,
or
Subscription Databases for End-User Online Service
Using a variety
of categories, such as free or subscription, and searches in the arts and
humanities, social science, and science, Nicholas Tomaiuolo tests and assesses
six databases, including FindArticles, XanEdu, and InfoTrac.
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Doing
Business with the Federal Government: The Non-Military Executive Agencies
Laura Gordan-Murnane
sizes up a wide range of federal government agency Web sites, from the
Department of Agriculture to the Department of Veterans Affairs, to see
which, if any, are facilitating a straightforward procurement process for
companies interested in obtaining government contracts.
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The
Searching Quagmire
In trying to keep
searchers out of the muddy goo on the bottom of the Web, Sue Feldman and
Elizabeth Liddy outline how search engines choose what to include while
clearing up the most common misconceptions about how search engines operate.
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| COLUMNS |
Searcher's
Voice
Putting her searching
where her clients' wallets are, bq addresses "The High Price of Nothing
" and how sometimes you don't get what you pay for.
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The
Better Mousetrap
Acknowledging
that Derwent's World Patent Index is the most vital resource to patent
info pros, Nancy Lambert critiques how well the WPI can be accessed via
Delphion.
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Behind
the Screen
Searching for
a lost shaker of salt, er, a missing art gallery while in Key West, Richard
Wiggins tries wireless Web searching and ends up with some Google redux.
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Internet
Express
Especially if
you live in California, you might want to check out the Web sites Irene
McDermott has found to have good deals on alternative energy sources.
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| DEPARTMENTS |
| Correspondence |
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| Contacts |
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