sitelines is written by rita vine, a professional librarian, web search trainer, and lead site evaluator of the search portfolio web search product.
together with other members of the search portfolio selection team, rita monitors over 50 key alerting services related to web search tools, site announcements, and the business of web search. sitelines is intended to present a distillation of the most important trends, news, and new web search tools and directories.
sitelines is sponsored by the search portfo
Google Scholar Grows - An Update 1090 days ago Read More
Google Scholar's chief engineer, Anurag Acharya, contributed a presentation ?Searching Scholarly Literature: A Google Scholar Perspective? at the 9th World Congress on Health Information and Librar...
New! Google Blog Search 1102 days ago Read More
Not to be outdone by upstart competitors (Technorati, Blogdigger, Feedster, and more), Google has announced a beta-version of its blog search. This is still a baby-beta version: it covers blog cont...
WAY more Google real-estate devoted to ads 1135 days ago Read More
Have you noticed that Google has expanded the maximum number of horozontal ads on its results pages? In this example of a search for 360 degree feedback, it's rather startling to see just how much ...
Not-So-Smart Answers at AskJeeves 1137 days ago Read More
The latest additions to AskJeeves "Smart Answers" were reported by Gary Price in his August 22 Search Engine Watch blog. Although the latest additions expand on the existing Jeeves collection of so...
More Silly Search Engine Size Stories 1142 days ago Read More
Since Yahoo disclosed the jump of its index size to just over 19 billion (!) documents, I've been following a series of interesting posts at the Technologie du Langage blog from Jean Véronis, profe...