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Search Engine Watch
January 6, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Super Searchers on Madison Avenue In the high pressure world of advertising, researchers need to be both good and fast. Some of Madison Avenue's best information sleuths share their secrets.   |
Search Engine Watch
December 21, 2004
Chris Sherman |
A Skeptic's Guide to Internet Research Robert Berkman's "The Skeptical Business Searcher" is an excellent guide to online searches for business information. Replete with tips and techniques, it focuses on cultivating an approach to evaluating information with an eye toward settling for nothing but the best. |
Search Engine Watch
October 27, 2005
Chris Sherman |
A Compilation of Search Marketing Book Reviews Looking for a book to help you sharpen your search marketing skills? Here's a compilation of reviews published in SearchDay over the past several years. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
Information Today, Inc. Launches New 'Super Searchers' Book CyberAge Books, an imprint of Information Today, Inc. (ITI), has announced the publication of Paula J. Hane's Super Searchers in the News: The Online Secrets of Journalists and News Researchers... |
Search Engine Watch
October 19, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Searching for a Good Searching Book? Here's a compilation of reviews for books designed to help you sharpen your searching skills. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on Innovation, Usability, Strategies, and Resources Leading for Innovation and Organizing for Results... Usability Testing for Library Web Sites: A Hands-on Guide... Super Searchers Cover the World: The Online Secrets of International Business Researchers... Internet Prophets: Enlightened E-Business Strategies for Every Budget... |
ONLINE
September 2001
Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on Library Issues Creating Web-Accessible Databases: Case Studies for Libraries, Museums, and Other Nonprofits... Caught in a Web: Intellectual Property in Cyberspace... Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions: The Online Secrets of Top Corporate Researchers and M&A Pros... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
February 11, 2004
Chris Sherman |
An Extreme Searcher's Guide to the Best of the Web One of the world's foremost super searchers has distilled his extensive and wide-ranging knowledge into an essential guide to the web's highest quality resources. |
ONLINE
March 2001
Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on Pleasing Clients and on Super Searchers This month, we look at a couple of books designed to help you please your clients and patrons, either by designing a better Web site or by creating better products and services. Then we examine the latest in the Super Searcher series--News and Health & Medicine... |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2005
Chris Sherman |
A Compilation Search Technology Book Reviews Want to hack together your own search engine? Curious to dig deeper into data mining? Here's a compilation of various search-related book reviews published in SearchDay over the past several years. |
Searcher
Howard S. Homan |
Making the Case for Patent Searchers? What is a searcher and what do they do? |
ONLINE
January 2001
Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading This month, I focus on service, with a book to help you select and manage electronic resources, and one to improve your customer service. Then research secrets are revealed in the financial area with the latest Super Searchers book, and failures are avoided in the digital library initiatives... |
Search Engine Watch
January 24, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present results. |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2011
Eli Goodman |
Q&A Search: Who, What, Where, When, Why & How Each of these question search terms tell their own story. A look at why the consumer experience on your website, and the ensuing return visitation if satisfied, is so important in the Q&A space. |
Information Today
January 2003
Marydee Ojala |
Search Strategies and Information Professionalism During Internet Librarian's track on search strategies, Chris Sherman explained the nuances of Google, including various field-searching syntaxes and special features. Other presentations covered blogs, difficult reference questions, and misleading hate sites. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2003 |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition, and the Quest for Balance... The Ultimate Digital Library: Where the New Information Players Meet... Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools... Super Searchers on Madison Avenue |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading for Online Professionals Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and Hands-On Information Strategies of Top Primary Researchers... Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software... On-the-Job Research: How Usable Are Corporate Research Intranets?... etc. |
Information Today
March 14, 2011
Marydee Ojala |
Dialog Delivers More Data and Features When ProQuest decided to create a new platform for its Dialog subsidiary, it spent 2 years on development, consulted more than 6,000 subscribers, and planned for a gradual roll-out rather than a total, jarring, all at once makeover. |
Information Today
October 2, 2000
Sheri R. Lanza |
Shakeup with Online Conferences Online, Inc. Announces the End of Online World and the Beginning of Two New Conferences... |
Search Engine Watch
September 14, 2004
Heather Lloyd-Martin |
Delving Deep Inside the Searcher's Mind Industry experts from Enquiro, Vividence, iProspect and Google asked searchers, "What are you thinking?" Their research unearthed some surprising results that will help site owners better understand their customers. |
Searcher
March 2002
Barbara Quint |
Guilt and Money As a professional searcher, it is my job to ensure that the client gets value received for their information dollar through the acquisition of the most relevant, accurate, and authoritative information available at the best possible price/time payment... |
Information Today
May 2003
Shirl Kennedy |
Answering the Unanswerable at CIL The Computers in Libraries session was packed for a presentation by info guru Mary Ellen Bates on "How to Answer the Questions You Can't Answer. |
Searcher
May 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Think Like a Searcher The double-digit increase in online search activity marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Internet consumer behavior. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2003 |
Hardcopy Recommended reading on PC troubleshooting to blogging |
Searcher
June 2012
Barbara Quint |
The Doctor Is In Now that everyone's an end-user searcher, now that intermediated searching is such a rarity, what has happened to the reference interview? |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Keeping an Eye on Google A new report offers fascinating, in-depth insights on how users interact with Google search results, based on studies using eye-tracking technology. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2004
Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Book reviews of The Web Conferencing Book... The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers... The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication... A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976... |
Search Engine Watch
October 11, 2010
Eli Goodman |
Universal Search: Not All Blends are Created Equal Searchers are more inclined to interact and engage with blended results than text-based results. Here's how blended results can impact your search marketing and optimization efforts on Google, Bing, and Yahoo. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2012
Cindy Shamel |
Thriving in the Age of Empowered End Users: A Panel Discussion at SLA As librarians and information professionals, we have an excellent track record for adapting to the ever-changing industry landscape. |
Search Engine Watch
May 26, 2004
Gord Hotchkiss |
Inside the Searcher's Mind: It's a Jungle in Here! What goes on in the mind of searchers? A research group set out to find the answers -- and came up with some interesting and surprising answers. |
Searcher
October 2001
Barbara Quint |
The Blame Game A young, healthy woman died this year because of a poor literature search. Whose fault was it? And, more important, is she the first and the last? |
Information Today
March 31, 2008 |
NTIS Launches Improved Search Engine The National Technical Information Service's new search engine features enhanced retrieval speed and new advanced searching capabilities |
PC Magazine
December 20, 2006 |
Quack Alert People searching for health information online need to be reminded that the Internet is not a library and that they need to check the quality of the source. |
Searcher
June 2003
Barbara Quint |
Cuddly Caveats One should always remember to observe the niceties in dealing with people. Wouldn't you say? Don't you agree? Is it not so? Niceties are particularly important when one has some negative information to impart. Information professionals face this situation every day. |
Information Today
March 1, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Factiva Previews New Interfaces Factiva previews two new interfaces. The first one being a new start page and the second one is in the advanced search options. |
