Briefs: Valdes-Perez on Clustering; Microsoft CEO Talks Google; Time to “Fetch” and Other Federated Search Tools; Ancestry.com Digitizes All Readily Available Iowa State Census Records From 1836 to 1925

+ CEO of Vivisimo/Clusty Shares His Views About Evaluating Clustering Tools
Note: This is a company blog. That said, Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of Vivisimo, always has interesting and thought provoking ideas about IR and web search.
See Also: Clusty.com
See Also: Clustermed.info
See Also: BioMeta Cluster

+ Ballmer Talks About Google at Stanford Lecture (via News.com)
See Also: Transcript of Mr. Ballmer’s Remarks at Stanford (via MS)

+ Ancestry.com Digitizes All Readily Available Iowa State Census Records From 1836 to 1925

+ Computerworld Profiles Fetch Technologies (Hat Tip to SEL)
See Also: Direct to Fetch Technologies ||| Review Fetch Tech Reports
Note: Those of you who have been reading ResourceShelf for a while know that we have been strong believers in federated search. Other players include: Auto-Graphics, Ex Libris, Fast Search and Transfer, MuseGlobal, Vivisimo, WebFeat, and ZPortal (OCLC Pica).
See Also: 2003 Research Report from National Library of New Zealand: Comparative Review of Common User Interface Software