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Chalana Perera

Magazine Led to Database's 'Abortion' Search Block : NPR - 0 views

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  • The block was an "overreaction," says Michael Klag, the dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, which maintains the POPLINE database.
  • An inquiry into why the world's largest database on reproductive health blocked searches using the term "abortion" has found the restriction was put in place because of articles from an abortion advocacy magazine available on the site.
Chalana Perera

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

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ITGS PP globalization reliability security int systems

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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!
Chalana Perera

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.
Chalana Perera

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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