Staying up to date in the ever-changing Web search world: refine your Web-searching skills

Information Outlook, March, 2004 by Rita Vine

References

(1) Rita Vine, "The Business of Search Engines: Understanding how Web advertising, partnerships, and the race for market dominance affect search tools and search results." Information Outlook (February 2004).

(2) In RSS--A Primer for Publishers & Content Providers, M. Moffat defines RSS as "'Rich Site Summary', 'RDF Site Summary' or 'Really Simple Syndication' depending on who you ask and which version they are speaking about." http://www.eevl.ac.uk/rss_primer/, last visited January 14, 2004.

(3) The sole exception is GoogleGuy Says, a thread of posts from a Google employee, reproduced on http://www.markcarey. com/googleguy-says/ from GoogleGuy's posts in the webmaster forums of WebMaster World (http://www.webmasterworld.com/).

Rita Vine is a professional librarian and co-founder of Workingfaster.com (http://www.workingfaster.com), which helps professionals break through the clutter of the Internet and access information that matters. Rita teaches Web searching to clients across North America and serves on the selection team of the Search Portfolio (http://www.searchportfolio.com), an enterprise product of the 100 top starting points for searching the free Web. She contributes to the glut of Web search newsletters with SiteLines: Ideas on Internet Searching, which is available online, by e-mail subscription, and through RSS feed at http://www.workingfaster.com/sitelines.>

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