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Information Today calls itself "the most widely read publication in the information industry. Information Today delivers total coverage of late-breaking news and long-term trends in the information industry."
These articles were written as "Newsbreaks" that appear each Monday on Information Today's Web site. They were subsequently published in the print version of the newspaper.
- AltaVista Gets a Facelift
- For the fourth time in less than a year, AltaVista (http://www.altavista.com) has redesigned its flagship search portal, offering both a cleaner, more intuitive interface and a suite of new services that will appeal to novices and information pros alike. While many of the changes are cosmetic, AltaVista has also added numerous new features that make finding specific types of information, files, or a particular media type much easier than in the past.
- New Web Map Reveals Previously Unseen ‘Bow Tie’ Organizational Structure
- A new map of cyberspace shows that the Web resembles a bow tie, with divisive boundaries that can make navigation between regions difficult or even impossible, according to a new study published by researchers at AltaVista, Compaq, and IBM.
- ‘Old Economy’ Info Retrieval Clashes with ‘New Economy’ Web Upstarts at the Fifth Annual Search Engine Conference
- A scaled-down version of the heroic struggle between the so-called old and new economies was played out to the delight and edification of the 300 attendees of the fifth annual Search Engine Meeting, held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on April 10 and 11, 2000.
- Google Introduces Web Directory
- Google’s new Web directory (http://directory.google.com) combines its sophisticated search technology with data from Netscape’s Open Directory Project (ODP) to form a hybrid service that’s uniquely broad and deep. The directory provides a “best-of-both-worlds” experience, augmenting Google’s standard Web search results with hand-selected listings from the ODP.
- AltaVista Introduces Advanced Search Center
- AltaVista has rolled out its new Advanced Search Center, “designed to meet the needs of demanding Internet searchers, from librarians to medical researchers.” The Advanced Search Center marks the company’s fourth specialized search capability, joining AltaVista’s Multimedia, MP3/Audio, Video, and Image Search Centers.
- Talavara, an ‘E-Customer Assistance Company,’ Launched by Manning & Napier
- Talavara, a recently formed spinoff of Manning & Napier Information Services (MNIS), is bringing to market a product focusing on e-mail management and search-and-retrieval technology for e-commerce Web sites.
- Conference Report: Search Engine Strategies 99
- Most Web searchers don’t realize it, but there’s a virtual cold war going on behind the scenes of the Internet. Reminiscent of Kipling’s “Great Game,” it’s a rough-and-tumble struggle that pits Webmasters staking claims in cyberspace against the ostensibly objective Net cartographers attempting to create accurate and reliable guides of the Web. Search Engine Strategies 99, held in San Francisco on November 18, was essentially a high-level summit for key players in this Great Game, bringing Web content creators, marketers, and promoters face-to-face with representatives of the major search engines and directories.
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