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From yesterday's Wired Campus:<br><br>
<h3><b><a href="http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1316">Web
Search Is About to Get More Social</a></b></h3>Major search engines are
working toward adding new features that would make
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2006/tc20060414_163652.htm">
searching the Web a more social activity.</a> Microsoft is reportedly in
talks to buy a small search company called
<a href="http://www.eurekster.com/">Eurekster,</a> which combines
traditional Web-search results with information culled from
social-networking sites like Friendster. A Web search could end up
looking at the information and preferences on a searcher's friends' Web
sites for answers in addition to scouring the entire Web.
_(BusinessWeek)_ If that happens, could that limit people's online
worldviews? Or are such moves necessary to find relevant information as
millions of full-text books and billions of new Web pages hit the
Internet?<br><br>
-Sue<br><br>
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Suzanne Lorimer<br>
Coordinator of Research Services<br>
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
(phone) 203-432-8371 (fax) 203-432-8527<br>
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