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BBC News | SCI/TECH | Search engines swamped - 1 views

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  • Internet users have been turning en masse to search engines for information, following the unprecedented terrorist attacks
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NewsBank Popular Periodicals: Document Display - 0 views

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  • Best Day Saturday. The Black Lips, Matt & Kim, Bowerbirds, Beirut, Yeasayer...it's like an illegal file-sharing server come to life!
  • Best Day Saturday. The Black Lips, Matt & Kim, Bowerbirds, Beirut, Yeasayer...it's like an illegal file-sharing server come to life!
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Health Database Blocked Searches on 'Abortion' : NPR - 1 views

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  • The world's largest database on reproductive health, POPLINE, has been blocking searches using the term "abortion"
  • discrepancy in the retrieval
  • "Eliminating this term essentially blocks access to the reports in the database and ultimately to information about abortion,"
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  • Sorrough said librarians were instructed by POPLINE to use alternate terms such as "unwanted pregnancy" or "fertility control, post-conception."
  • administrators then made the decision to restrict 'abortion' as a search term," she said.
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BBC News | Sci/Tech | Search engine seeks billion URLs - 0 views

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  • But size is not everything and while alltheweb seemed lightning fast when I tried it, it did not appear to match the relevancy of a much smaller search engine now
  • find more of these highly rated gems and place them on the first or second page of search results, resulting in a better and more satisfying search experience."
  • the result of more than a decade of research into optimising search algorithms and architectures in a project initiated at the
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  • storage subsystems, operating in parallel to distribute user queries, search the catalogue and spider the Web.
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