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   Google Sets

   GoArticles.com

   Security Hole Found in KaZaA File-Sharing Service

   United Nations Launches Online Ocean Atlas

   Google Announces Contest Winners

   Digital Library About Underground Railroad Being Built   Jeeves Gets a New Look
   An Egyptian Stumper for Google, Or Is It?
   Pubs With Free Archives on the Web

   Internet Used to Find Man
   U.S. Warns Web Sites to Label Sponsorships   Are You the Average Internet User?
   Publishers of Web Sites File Suit to Stop Pop-Up Ads
   Use of Internet Is More Active at High Speed
   Fast has the largest index
   British AOL displaying Google search results
   Teoma to launch search engine toolbar
   Instant Messaging Research
   Lop.com's drive-by download marketing tactics

Archived Abstracts from June 2002

Google Sets [New Window]

Google Sets doesn't provide search results, it helps you find similar terms to the ones you've already entered. Using the results you can create a more complex query in one area.

Enter a couple of words and You'll get a small set of results. The results may include items you have not heard of. Be sure to click on them to get Google search results to see how and if they're related to your original search terms.

Use Google sets to build queries when you're looking for similar items or when you are trying to put a search together.

GoArticles.com [New Window]

GoArticles.com is an article search engine and directory, updated daily. GoArticles.com is the fourth web site launched by Jayde Online, Inc. that focuses on niche areas of particular interest to novices, webmasters, marketers, newsletter publishers, authors and entrepreneurs. SiteProNews.com, a webmaster newsletter and resource site, and EzineHub.com , a newsletter search engine and directory were launched earlier last year (2001).

Security Hole Found in KaZaA File-Sharing Service [New Window]

New York Times Friday, June 7, 2002

"A study showed that users of KaZaA, an Internet service for sharing music files, frequently expose personal files on their computers by misconfiguring the program."

A computer scientist for Hewlett-Packard's Information Dynamics Lab at HP Labs and a computer scientist at the University of Minnesota, found that a significant percentage of KaZaA users have accidentally or unknowingly allowed private files like e-mail and financial documents to be shared with the global Internet.

United Nations Launches Online Ocean Atlas

Research Buzz06-03-2002 [New Window]

The United Nations has launched an online atlas of the oceans at
http://www.oceansatlas.org/index.jsp

The front page has headlines and several ways to navigate the atlas. By clicking on "Uses" under "Navigate the Atlas" you'll get links to Ocean news as well as subtopics ranging from Energy to Marine Biotechnology to Offshore Oil, Gas, and Mining. Click on the i beside a topic or the topic name and you'll get an overview of the topic with sub-topics for that topic. Each sub-topic has its own small introduction and possibly more sub-topics in the column on the left.

Geography has topics based on countries/continents with a couple of exceptions (FAO fishing areas, marine areas.) It's still under development and there's not much available right now.

Google Announces Contest Winners

Research Buzz - 06-03-2002 [New Window]

Google has announced the winners of the 2002 Google Programming Contest. The winner is Daniel Egnor of New York. He used geographic data to convert street addresses on Web pages to latitude-longitude coordinates, then enabled users to search for Web pages within a specified geographic area. You can get more information about the winning entry and a list of honorable mentions at http://www.google.com/programming-contest/winner.html . Will we see some of these in action? It would be nice!

Digital Library About Underground Railroad Being Built [New Window]

The University of Cincinnati has announced that they've teamed up with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to create an online digital library of documents related to the Underground Railroad.

The online library will include "Underground Railroad archival collections, such as oral history interviews with Underground Railroad participants, maps, articles, photographs, and annotated correspondence." It's not clear when the library will be finished, howeverwhen I visited the site it did say that it is "anticipated that at least one significant Underground Railroad digital collection will be available to users by the end of the summer."-[The University of Cincinnati]-

Jeeves Gets a New Look [New Window]

Jeeves has also launched a "most popular" page like the Google Zeitgeist and the Lycos Top 50. You can view it here. You can find the most popular Web searches, the top news searches, and the top travel related searches for the previous week here.

An Egyptian Stumper for Google, Or Is It? [New Window]

By Danny Sullivan, Editor
The Search Engine Report

A "simple" query that seems like a no-brainer for Google turns out to be an excellent illustration of why you can't find "everything" on the Internet and even when you can, the "answer" may not necessarily be correct."

This article explains that "while a search engine might get you to an answer, it remains up to you to determine whether that "answer" is accurate.

Pubs With Free Archives on the Web [New Window]

Information Today has a handy-dandy list of publications with free archives on the Web. The full alphabetized list is available here. The list ranges from ABA Banking Journal to the Zimbabwe Standard and includes some things I wouldn't consider to be journals, including several items from the ABC News.

The links here aren't direct; instead they take you to a page for that publication. The publication page has the title, the URL, and how far back the archives go.

Internet Used to Find Man Who Is Charged in 2 of 10 Killings
New York Times 6-11-2002 [New Window]

You'll have to register to read the article - IT's FREE
"ST. LOUIS, June 10 -- Investigators looking into the killings of 10 women in the St. Louis area have accused a paroled robber in two of the killings after tracking him using the Internet."

"A search by Illinois State Police of Internet mapping companies led to an exact match between features on a map sent to the Post-Dispatch and one found on Expedia.com."-[The New York Times]-

"The Federal Trade Commission has warned several major Internet search engines to make it clearer to their users when companies have paid to be included in Web search results."

According to Nielsen/NetRatings, the average internet user spent eleven hours and 15 minutes on line during 21 sessions in April 2002. The source of this information is from; Nielsen/NetRatings Audience Measurement Service, April 2002 Global Internet Index Average Usage.

The reported Internet usage estimates are based on a sample of households that have access to the Internet and use the following platforms: Windows 95/98/NT, and MacOS 8 or higher.

"The Nielsen//NetRatings Internet universe is defined as all members (2 years of age or older) of U.S. households which currently have access to the Internet."

"A group of 10 Web site publishers is suing Gator, an online advertising and information storage company, to stop it from placing pop-up ads over their sites without permission." -[New York Times]-

The publishers conducted a survey "showing that 16 percent of Gator customers did not know the service placed ads on their computers."

"According to Gary Price Teoma/Ask Jeeves will present a new search engine toolbar. This is a piece of software that adds a separate toolbar to the Web browser, giving you direct access to a search form, as well as various other functions." -[Pandia.com]-

The Google/AOL deal, where Google replaces Inktomi as AOL's main search engine results provider, is beginning to take effect. AOL.co.uk is now presenting listings from Google.

There is a header before each section of search results. The categories listed below may not appear in every set of results. A particular category will only be displayed if at least one relevant result has been found in that category.

Depending on your search, the following headers (categories) can appear on the results page:

These are sites that are hand-picked by AOL's subject experts, editors and producers. They include official company Web sites, AOL.co.uk pages and closely related web sites.

This option will only be available if found in the Open Directory. Matching Sites are Web sites listed in order of relevance, with the ones that match best first. If you find a good result and would like to see a collection of similar sites, click on "Show me more like this" to see more sites from the same category.

According to Pandia.com "Fast has announced a new and larger search engine database, counting more than 2 billion Web pages. This makes it the largest index of its kind."

People who use high-speed services to connect to the Internet from home have a much more active relationship with the online world than those who dial up to it over a regular phone line, according to a study to be released today sponsored by the Pew Research Center.

Broadband users spend almost four hours more online a week than people who dial up, performing twice as many kinds of tasks, including trading music files and telecommuting, according to the study, issued by the center's Internet in American Life Project. -[New York Times]-

"More than 41 million, or nearly 40 percent of the active Internet surfing population at home, used at least one of the four major instant messaging applications during the month of May. In addition, nearly 12.6 million office workers used instant messaging during the same time period, reaching 31 percent of the total active Internet population at work."-[The Nielsen//NetRatings Reporter]-

"Wondering how your home page got switched to Lop.com? Alex Shamash and Jason Lucas may have something to do with it. They are the twenty-something entrepreneurs behind Lop.com and the British marketing firm C2 Media."-[PCWorld]-

June 2002 Archived Article Abstracts

Archived Abstracts from June 2002