I always find it interesting to see what search terms people use to find what they are looking for (or not looking for). On that note, I thought I would share a quick behind the scenes of keyword searching for my article, The Effect of Automation on Academic Library Staffing: A Discussion . There is no abstract or keywords attached to this title, so the results are truly from within the fulltext searching. These stats are generated through the Bpress statistics tool.

Interesting post on changes to Google’s search algorithms (& an overview of 9 algorithm changes that have been released to the public)"Google is trying to become more open about their search algorithm changes.

Very cool and informative. See it fullscale here

Infographic by the Pay Per Click Blog

Speaker presentations for Internet Librarian are now available online, no required login. http://fb.me/LPXHhhHtSearch engines, discovery tools, Bing, gadgets, IA (Information Architecture), the eBranch, Mobile, digital identity, and more.

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/A visual mapping search engine which has a free demo, although it is a paid site. An interesting way of looking at information.

Interesting little post about wolfram alpha and plans for the future:

But Alpha may yet confound the sceptics. Last month, Wolfram released an application programming interface, or API, that allows anybody to build software or websites that use Alpha's abilities. "Alpha is a technology platform that allows one to inject computable knowledge into any application or computer system," says Wolfram.

and it's partnering with bing...

Well, this is interesting... some thoughts on a new tool in the google webmaster's toolbox.... Just goes to show that mining content doesn't always tell you relevance. Sometimes controlled vocabularies (subject headings) and taxonomies (categories) are a GOOD thing... Sigh...

Here is what Google says the keyword significance list is for: Below are the most common keywords Google found when crawling your site.

Very interesting (and short) review of the last 5 years for Firefox and web in general....

“All of our servers melted instantly,” Vukićević says. “We spent an hour trying to get the downloads back up.”

(on the day Firefox launched)....and looking to the future:"“We always ask, ‘What is it that people on the open web can’t do right now?

I am so excited about this NYT project -- just the kind of thing needed to start moving the semantic web forward ... By the way, DBPedia is an attempt to take Wikipedia data and semanticize it... I am kind of in love with linked in data at the moment.Article athttp://tinyurl.com/yhdayvr "Over the last several months we have manually mapped more than 5,000 person name subject headings onto Freebase and DBPedia.