Northern Light Special Edition: Windows XP
http://special.northernlight.com/windowsxp/
This new special edition from Northern Light (last mentioned in the January 11, 2001 Scout Report for Business & Economics) features selected and organized resources on Windows XP. The resources, which will be updated weekly, include links to external sites, documents from Northern Light's library, and search results generated on-the-fly for selected phrases. The special edition is divided into eleven sections, such as Office XP, Security, Legal Issues, and News & Reviews.
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Google News
"Google's New Look & New File Types"
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/01/10-google.html
"The Effects of September 11 on the Leading Search Engine" -- First Monday
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/wiggins/index.html
Google Searches Related to 9/11 Terrorists Attacks
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/9-11-search.html
Google Zeitgeist
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
Some of our readers may already have noticed that Google (last mentioned in the July 20, 2001 Scout Report) is sporting a new look these days. Running along the top of the search page are now four tabs: Web, Images, Groups (newsgroups), and Directory (Open Directory's human-selected listings) that enable users to see different sets of search results. We reported on the Beta version of Google's image search engine in the June 29, 2001 Scout Report and find its results quite good. The Search Engine Report covers these latest improvements to Google. The next two URLs, from First Monday and Google's own Zeitgeist, reveal the ways that people used Google (and other search engines) to find information after the September 11 attacks. Perhaps most notably, the top ten search terms for the week do not include any of the usual sex-related suspects but instead are comprised of "CNN," "World Trade Center," "BBC," etc. Google Zeitgeist offers lists and graphs keeping track of the latest search queries. Archived pages are also available.
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