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October 26, 2005 Highlights from the SEW Blog: Oct 26, 2005 By Chris Sherman, Associate Editor Source: www.clickz.com Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web. If you're not familiar with our blog, click on any of the links below, or visit the blog's home page at http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/. Talk of Sun-Google Hosted Productivity Suite: "Way off Base" The eWeek article: Rumors of Sun-Google Hosted Desktop Suite Quashed, offers a look at the constant (the article users the word "rampant") specultation about a Sun-Google hosted desktop productivity suite and common operating system, "is way off base." From the article: Insiders with knowledge of the joint plans to promote and enhance the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite say it is far
October 24, 2005 Inside the Internet Movie Database By Gary Price, News Editor Source: www.clickz.com The Internet Movie Database is a standard and respected reference database for film and TV information, but for film, TV and pop-culture fans it's also a great deal of fun. The (IMDB), owned by Amazon.com, is more than just a "enter a movie title or actor's name and get results" type of service. While you usually get great info from that type of search, it only scratches the surface of what IMDB offers. Buried deep (and I mean deep) within the IMDB web site is this amazing power Search page search interface that can help you find an incredible amount of movie/TV info within seconds. I learned what this power search interface can do when a news librarian asked for a solid list of movies filmed in Denver. IMDB got
October 17, 2005 Curing Medical Information Disorder By Chris Sherman, Associate Editor Source: www.clickz.com Healthline is a specialized medical search engine that offers high-quality, authoritative information that's easy to find, even if you don't speak medicalese. According to the Pew Internet Project, more Americans search for health information on the web than make doctor visits each day. The good news is that there's a ton of great health care information available on the web. The bad news is that there's also a ton of questionable quackery, and it's not always easy to tell the difference. Enter Healthline, the reincarnation of a site formerly known as YourDocor.com. Healthline is a specialized search engine that focuses exclusively on reliable, doctor-vetted information, covering 62,000 web sites with between 45-50 million pages. The site also features hosted content licensed from reliable content providers. Medical information isn't always easy to come by, primarily because most