The Latest News and Views from the Richland College Library

Overture Acquires FAST Search & Transfer

Yet another Web search engine has been absorbed into another. This time it is Fast Search & Transfer--known to Web searchers in the U. S. as AllTheWeb--that has been acquired by Overture. Once again, economic hard times plus the dominance of Google has weeded the search engine field.
posted by Fearguth at 2:14:00 PM

Overture To Buy AltaVista

Consolidation in the search engine industry continues. Recently, Yahoo! acquired Inktomi, Ask Jeeves acquired Teoma, and LookSmart acquired WiseNut. Now Overture has acquired AltaVista, one of the earliest (and once most popular) search engines. These consolidations reflect two facts: first, search engines have found it increasingly difficult to find sufficient revenue to stay in business; and second, search engines have found it increasingly difficult to compete with Google, the eight-hundred-pound gorilla of the search engine industry.
posted by Fearguth at 3:24:00 PM

Internet Hot Pick of the Week Begins Its Fifth Year

Way back in February, 1999, the Richland College Library began to highlight a website each week "that has been judged to be very useful to a wide range of Internet users." Remarkably, given the "here today-gone tomorrow" nature of the Web, almost all of the websites featured by Internet Hot Pick of the Week are still around.

To see the latest Hot Pick, go here.
posted by Fearguth at 3:38:00 PM

Google Buys Blogger

With its acquisition of Blogger, Google has added multiple exclamation points to the fact that web logs (or "blogs") have become big-time players on the Internet and the World Wide Web.

One of the earliest library blogs on the Internet, "What's Happening in the Richland College Library," has been using the Blogger service since April, 2001.


posted by Fearguth at 2:40:00 PM

Black History Month

The Richland College Library joins libraries across the United States in celebrating Black History Month. Online resources for this celebration have been identified and linked by the Librarians' Index to the Internet. Click on the link above to start accessing these resources.
posted by Fearguth at 4:35:00 PM

My Way

There's a new player in the portal game. It's called MyWay, and it shows promise. There's a categorical directory and a search box powered by Google. Being a portal, you can access email, stock quotes, weather, news, etc. Best of all, there are no banner ads and no pop up (or pop under) ads on this site.
posted by Fearguth at 7:37:00 PM