Wednesday, February 04, 2004

Talking With Gary Price. Had a nice chat with Gary Price yesterday. Here's a fellow who's written the book on the Invisible Web, and who has a mission to educate us about the resources - beyond the open web of Google et al - that are freely available to the public. Price took me on a tour of the databases that are available to anyone with a public library card. Among them, the Arlington library, which has the same Thompson/Gale databases for free as Highbeam has for $20 a month. Others, like the SF library, have huge databases of magazines and other business resources available. All you need is a library card. This it does kind of make you wonder how Keepmedia and Highbeam intend to make money in... [John Battelle's Searchblog] 7:12:33 PM    comment []

Hack Your Own Search Engine Crawler. Want to build your own customized search tool that can search the web, explore online databases, and mine virtually any other type of internet resource? Spidering Hacks shows you how. [Search Engine Watch] 7:12:05 PM    comment []

Vignette's JSR168-Ready Portal [Line56: B2B News] 7:11:46 PM    comment []