+ New Google Image Search Options
You can now limit your Google image search to:
+ Regular images
+ News images
+ Images containing a human face.
Quick Notes:
1) Exalead began offering a human face search in April. and a database Freenet.de in Germany has been offering it for several years. More in this post. Even more here (several demos).
2) For several years, Yahoo has offered users to limit their search to news images via the news search interface.
3) Ask.com* offers both separate images and current news images on web result pages. Example. Note that each image contains a direct link to the news story that it accompanies. A selection of the most current news images can be browsed here.
* Gary is Director of Online Information Resources at Ask.com

+ Liz Liddy To Become ACM SIGIR President
Congrats to ResourceShelf friend, Liz Liddy, and those who will be joining her to lead SIGIR. The new leadership will officially begin their jobs on July 1st.

+ Portico Unveils Holdings Comparison Service

The new service is designed to assist librarians in making decisions about maintaining print holdings of e-journal content being preserved by Portico.

+ Multimedia Search: Lycos and Blinkx Expand Relationship

Now when users visit Lycos MIX (http://mix.lycos.com) to create video playlists, they can easily search for and view video results powered by blinkx within MIX, without ever having to leave the site. With Blinkx video search, MIX creators simply type their video selection into the search box, and blinkx then pulls video clips from a variety of different sources across the web, presenting video search results all in one place on MIX…Lycos first introduced its proprietary “Watch & Chat?” technology in Nov. 2006, with the launch of Lycos Cinema (http://cinema.lycos.com/). Lycos MIX (http://mix.lycos.com/) took Watch & Chat to another level, allowing groups of people to pull video clips from different sources across the web to create playlists of content, to watch and share and chat with others in the MIX.

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