Web Search–Teoma
Web Search–Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves Acquires Teoma
From the press release, “Ask Jeeves, Inc., a leading provider of natural language question answering and search technologies, today announced it has acquired privately held Teoma Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of next generation Web search technologies. The acquisition will enable Ask Jeeves(R) to provide one of the most advanced search technologies on the Web. Started by scientists at Rutgers University, Teoma has been hailed in recent months by industry experts as “the next big thing in search engines” and described as “running rings around” other search engines. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.” Ask Jeeves CEO Skip Battle said, “We are confident this investment will allow us to reach new audience segments while increasing the frequency and use from current customers, all of which will increase our revenue opportunities.” …”The search algorithms that Teoma has developed are among the most advanced in the market,” said Steve Berkowitz, president of Ask Jeeves Web Properties. “Over the coming months we will integrate Teoma�s technology into our sites while focusing on advancing the technology through such efforts as increasing the size of their search database.”
Direct to Teoma
Direct to Ask Jeeves

ERIC Clearninghouse on Information Technology
Education–ERIC Database
ERIC Clearinghouse Updates Site, New URL, Adds New Full-Text Tool
The site has a new resource that allows you to search over 1,000 of the latest research reports, conference papers, opinion papers, selected articles and other ERIC documents in the fields of Library Science and Educational Technology and receive the documents in full text immediately.

Digitization Projects–Newspapers
Source: AP
“Web Site Would Make Newspaper Articles from as Far Back as 17th Century Accessible to Public”
More on the Cold North Wind project.

Full-Text Document Shelf
E-Government–United States
“Taubman Center for Public Policy Study Finds Improvement in State and Federal ‘e-Government’ Web Sites”
From the release, A second annual analysis of “e-government” conducted by researchers at Brown University has found that the Web sites and Internet services of state and federal government agencies have improved significantly during the last year, providing better citizen access to online information and services.”
Direct to Full-Text of Report

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.