+ Digg.com reveals news stories fade after 1 hour (via New Scientist)

Direct to Full Text of Paper: Novelty and Collective Attention
From the abstract:

The subject of collective attention is central to an information age where millions of people are inundated with daily messages. It is thus of interest to understand how attention to novel items propagates and eventually fades among large populations. We have analyzed the dynamics of collective attention among one million users of an interactive website –digg.com- devoted to thousands of novel news stories. The observations can be described by a dynamical model characterized by a single novelty factor. Our measurements indicate that novelty within groups decays with a stretched-exponential law, suggesting the existence of a natural time scale over which attention fades.

+ Yahoo, Gracenote launch lyrics service (via Reuters)

“Finally, a free, legal and definitive way to settle a bet with the guy sitting next to you at the bar who is certain the Ramones’ most famous anthem declares, ‘I wanna piece of bacon,’” said Ian Rogers, general manager of Yahoo Music, which will offer lyrics to hundreds of thousands of songs.

400,000 songs according to SEL. You can access song lyrics by going to a artist/group page and selecting lyrics or by going to http://music.yahoo.com/lyrics where lyrics can also be searched. Examples:
+ Coldplay
+ No Doubt
+ James Taylor
+ Rolling Stones
Two notes:
1) Not every song by every artist is available.
2) Lyrics appear if an artist/group performed the song. You can find the name(s) of the songwriter(s) in a box directly above the lyrics. For example, this list of Stevie Wonder lyrics includes Blowin’ in the Wind written by Bob Dylan.
See Also: More Info from Search Engine Land

+ BT Selects Autonomy for Search
The news release says Autonomy will power, “a number of search applications.” Specifics were not described in the news release.

+ Beware of data seepage on Google Calendar (via ZDNet)

+ SearchTools.com Product Report: IBM OmniFind Enterprise Search, Yahoo! Edition

+ New download: Libraries and Google Book Search (via Google Librarian Central)

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