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- W3C Semantic Web Activity
- By Marja-Riitta Koivunen and Eric Miller. In: Proceedings of the Semantic Web Kick-off Seminar in Finland, November 2001. The authors explain the main Semantic Web principles, key technological layers, they present W3C activity and sample applications. The ODP RDF dump is used to show how easy it is to merge RDF based information.
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- Advanced Directory
- A commercial template-based Perl script that can utilize part of, or the entire, Open Directory.
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- Josser
- Open Source Java library which allows to parse RDF files of the Open Directory Project and inserts them into any JDBC compliant relational database like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
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- phpODPWorld
- An open source (GPL) program package that parses and inserts the RDF into a database and displays the ODP data from the database using PHP. The PHP script supports caching, some templating and searching. Documentation and SourceForge project page.
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- phpOpen
- Free PHP script to customise the ODP content for a website. Works with the Netscape live site.
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- Automatic Evaluation of World Wide Web Search Services
- By Abdur Chowdhury, America Online Inc., and Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. 2002. The authors present a method for comparing search engines automatically based on how they rank known item search results. The queries are constructed using query log analysis, the result is automatically constructed via analysis of editor comments from ODP. Five search services are compared: Lycos, Netscape, Fast, Google, HotBot, with the result that some services perform better than others, but the majority are statistically equivalent. [PDF]
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- Using Titles and Category Names from Editor-driven Taxonomies for Automatic Evaluation
- By Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury and David Grossman. Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. In: Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management, 2003. Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments: large editor-driven taxonomies on the web make a new evaluation approach possible. ODP´s taxonomy is used to compare and contrast two methodologies. [PDF]
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- Search Engine Journal: Looksmart Closes Zeal, Concentrates on Furl.net
- Loren Baker reports on the announcement by Looksmart of its closure of the volunteer-supported Zeal directory. (March 22, 2006)
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- Robots Mailing List Archive
- Re: Search Engine end-users. From his first search engine job with McKinley Group which was later popularly called Magellan.
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- Police Chase Ends in Fatality
- A man suspected of drunken driving, whose license has been suspended six times, struck and killed Ted Resnick on a Berkeley city street early yesterday while fleeing California Highway Patrol officers, authorities said. (March 19, 2001)
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- Suisun City Man Faces Murder Charge
- A Suisun City man was charged with murder yesterday in the death of Theodore Resnick at the end of a high-speed chase in Berkeley involving the California Highway Patrol. (March 17, 2001)
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- The Danger of Police Chases
- Op/Ed piece about how Ted's tragic death should prod rethinking of police policy about chases. (March 16, 2001)
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- Safety Issue Raised After Fatal Pursuit
- Risk to bystanders is part of decision. The death of Theodore Abraham Resnick, 33, of San Francisco has rekindled a long-standing debate over whether car chases on city streets pose too many risks. (March 15, 2001)
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- BBC News: Is it possible to quit Google?
- Google's reach spreads far across the web. But is it possible to go online without being noticed by the search giant? Three computer professionals try to part ways with Google. (July 10, 2012)
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- BBC Is Google Good for You?
- The Google search engine has become the Coke of the web, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson. (December 19, 2003)
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- Information Today: Google Buys Applied Semantics
- Google announced that it has acquired Applied Semantics, a Santa Monica, California-based company known for its semantic text processing technology. (April 28, 2003)
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- NYTimes.com: Postcards From Planet Google
- Discusses how Google organizes and analyses the collective searches of people worldwide. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.] (November 28, 2002)
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- Localized Google Search Result Exclusions
- Harvard Law School researchers document sites filtered by international versions of Google. (October 26, 2002)