1. WorldCat Year in Review and Other Presentations from the OCLC 2009 Technical Services Forum 2 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

This event took place in at the British Library on November 18, 2009. Presentations: + Online Catalogs (PDF, 52 slides) Karen Calhoun, OCLC, Vice President WorldCat and Metadata Services + WorldCat: the year in view (PDF, 18 slides) Janet Lees, OCLC, Community Liaison + Records count (PDF, 45 slides) Daniel van Spanje, OCLC, Global Product ...

2. Internet Juror Research Can Be Revealing 3 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Article: The widespread use of the Internet has taken a lot of the guesswork out of jury selection. Web users, especially those involved with social networking sites, are revealing much more of their personal information, often unknowingly. The Web also makes it easier for professional investigators to uncover personal information from ...

3. Panlibus » Blog Archive » Karen Calhoun completes a conversation ... 8 hours ago   permalink

Panlibus » Blog Archive » Karen Calhoun completes a conversation ...
Blogs.talis.com

When recording my previous Talking with Talis podcast with OCLC’s Karen Calhoun, in a hotel lobby over the road from the British Library in London, we suffered a technology failure loosing the last third of our conversation.

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4. Daily Search Forum Recap: 12 hours ago   permalink

Barry / Search Engine Roundtable

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

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This week in search   —  This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed. This Thanksgiving week, and just in time for the holiday season, we give thanks to you, our users, with two new search features. Holiday Interfaces Last Friday, we started showing ...

5. Re: Google Adds Disclaimer Ad to Results for 18 hours ago   permalink

Blogoscoped.com

This is getting absurd. First, a racist caricature of the US president’s wife, Michelle Obama, appeared in a search for her name, and Google decided to launch a disclaimer ad campaign on those results. Then that image got removed and disappeared for some of us, but the results were soon showing a text, printed by Google, which read “ ...

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Barry / Search Engine Roundtable
Re: Google Adds Disclaimer Ad to Results for Google Tracking Phones & Devices For Traffic Data: Crowdsouring Traffic   —  This is old news, back in August Google told us they are now crowdsourcing traffic data in order to provide better and more accurate traffic reports on Google Maps. Let me quote Google: When you choose to enable Google Maps...

Barry / Search Engine Roundtable
Major Google Search Thanksgiving '09 Update? Caffeine Related?   —  Update: Matt Cutts from Google confirmed that Caffeine is live 50% of the time in the 209.85.225.103 data center. See below for more info. There are several threads reporting major changes in the Google search results, starting yesterday. We have...

6. Update your tax forms this holiday weekend 17 hours ago   permalink

Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense

We hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Here in the U.S., we on the AdSense Team are spending the Friday after Thanksgiving enjoying holiday shopping , American football , and leftovers . On this vacation day, we'd like you to remind you that tax season is approaching quickly, so you may wish to take a moment to review your address information and ...

7. Grab a Free SEO Tip each day - it's free! 20 hours ago   permalink

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For literally hundreds of FREE SEO Tips, please sign in below and you'll get one free tip each and every day courtesy of Search Engine Workshops. If you get tired of reading tips you can unsubscribe any time. It's free. Also see the options at the bottom of this page and what extras you can get for a 1-time donation. There is no obligation to any ...

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8. Fancy a new number plate for Christmas? 22 hours ago   permalink

Fancy a new number plate for Christmas?
Carla / Dave Naylor a leading UK SEO

Looking for a great present for that special SEO in your life? We’ll you’re in luck as the next DVLA auction has some fantastic personalised number plates just in time for Christmas! There’s the run of the mill Web option – a snip at a reserve price of £450 Then we have the slightly more niche SEM [...]