ResearchBuzz

Google recently announced that you can view all the comments that Google News is offering from expert sources. (There’s not too many so sometimes it’s hard to find them.)

That’s interesting, but what Google doesn’t mention is that it’s using the source: syntax to find the commentary. So using the query source:google_news will find you all the expert commentary.

.. aaaand you can use keywords to search for only particular comments. source:google_news “global warming” hips you to just those experts commenting on global warming (all two of them.) Since these are standard Google News searches, you can use the RSS and Atom links on the left to make RSS feeds for them. Useful, if you’re interested in tracking expert commentary.

Google News now has a help center.

Annoyed Librarian on the future of cataloging. I laughed very hard at “Digitization is seeexxy, unless you’re actually doing some.” Then it’s tedious and eyestraining.

The UK’s National Health Service has a new site about autism. It includes information about adults with autism and HFA.

Stanford: price of medicine may affect its efficacy.

Google Chart API has new features.

LOC adds more photos to Flickr. Whee!

New Google AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) Language API.

Blogdigger got bought!

Search engine Gigablast ( http://www.gigablast.com ), which seems to have taken the recent Microsoft/Yahoo/Ask news as a big ol’ kick in the pants, has announced Gigablast Site Search.

This service means you can get free site and Web search via Gigablast on your Web site. Gigablast also mentions that those sites which use the site search will (from the announcement) “receive priority during the Gigablast indexing process.” So use the service, get a bump in how often your content gets indexed.

You can go to http://gigablast.com/index.php?page=help#web-search to get instructions on how to add a site search page to your site. When I looked at these instructions, they looked awfully familiar. I may be remembering incorrectly but these look like the instructions Gigablast had some time ago for creating a site search engine.

“If those are the same instructions,” I thought while scanning them, “then there also should be… aha.” After the instructions for the site search engine, there’s instructions for creating a Gigablast search engine that searches several sites. It doesn’t have the level of control that something like a Google Custom Search Engine does, but it’s very quick to knock together and doesn’t require an account. Less clear is whether search engines included in these types of engines will get an indexing bump.