LISNews: Librarian News

An Anonymous Patron writes "Here's An Interesting NYTImes piece on Factiva. Factiva's top executive has dismissed suggestions that the company's paid search services are under threat from high-profile free rivals such as Google. She says that while it was useful for generic information, news access required a more sophisticated approach. One restriction on a service such as Google News, which claims to index more than 4,500 news sites, is that it can't provide access to articles on subscription sites."

Placement Ranking Positioning writes "News on some interesting moves at google:"There have been a lot of conversations in the company in the past two months about (how) . . . it's time for us to give something back. So our technical director, Craig Silverstein, has started a project to look at all the Google code and start figuring out what parts of it we want to give back," Rosing said."I'm not saying we're going to open-source Google, because that would be a little dumb when we have these Microsoft guys making noise," he said, referring to the practice of giving away the raw computer instructions to a software program.He says it isn't fair for Google to draw smart people from all over the world and "just keep it all for ourselves".

Search Engine Optimization writes "A BBC Story on Matt Cutts. If anyone knows how to get their webpage to top Google's search results it is Matt Cutts.Google: Best known for its search pageMr Cutts is one of a team at Google who help webmasters and website creators tweak their pages to ensure they are properly indexed by the search engine.
Although Google's senior technology folk have filed papers about how it does what it does, it has been reluctant to say just how many servers it owns and operates.

The estimates of how many machines it has in its datacentres range from 10,000 to 80,000.

This concentration of computer power could be addressing more than 6,000 terabytes of data. "

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