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Bio-IT World.com Call for Best Practices EntriesDecember 1

It is early in the morning and I am poking around in my email looking for interesting items on health and medicine search. I am finding that calls for papers for conferences or announcements of competitions in various areas of biomedicine are actually quite interesting and lead to enjoyable and productive hours of surfing and fruitful moments of serendipity. One such case is an email notice I got a few days ago from the magazine Bio-IT World that mentioned its competition, Bio-IT World Best Practices: 2009 Call for Entries:

Reading the come-on to prospective entrants provides some insight into the pressures biotech and pharma generally are facing these days to impress potential investors, analysts and the scientific community (from whence comes the brainpower it needs for survival’s sake):

“Take advantage of this opportunity to showcase your organization’s efforts and talents, and contribute to the industry’s broader knowledge base.

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE (No Fee): December 18, 2008
FINAL DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: January 21, 2009

Benefits of participation:

* Gain Peer Recognition: Spotlight the talent of your team, and position y

Do the math. Please.November 30

Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers:

Domain

October 2007

October 2008

www.google.com

64.49%

71.70%

search.yahoo.com

21.65%

17.74%

search.msn.com

7.42%*

5.40%*

www.ask.com

4.76%

3.53%

The remaining market share for Alt Search Engines 2007 = 1.68%. In 2008 = 1.63%

1) The winner takes it all.  How close to 100% do you think Google can get?

2) Google is not necessarily gaining; perhaps Yahoo!, MSN, an

Where in the world are our readers?November 29

A red dot will appear each time a new reader visits AltSearchEngines.

Was ist die ZDB? What is the ZDB?November 28

“Was ist die ZDB?
Die ZDB ist die weltweit grцЯte Datenbank fьr Titel- und Besitznachweise fortlaufender Sammelwerke, also von Zeitschriften, Zeitungen usw. Sie enthдlt nicht nur Printwerke, auch Titel elektronischer Zeitschriften sind verzeichnet.

Was enthдlt die ZDB? Die ZDB umfaЯt mehr als 1,2 Mio. Titel in allen Sprachen von 1500 bis heute und weist zu diesen Titeln mehr als 6 Mio. Besitznachweise von ca. 4300 deutschen Bibliotheken nach. Die ZDB verzeichnet keine Aufsatztitel”

So steht es zu lesen, wenn Sie die Homepage der Zeitschriftendatenbank aufrufen. Diese Datenbank gibt es schon sehr lang, frьher war sie beispielsweise auf vielen, vielen Mikrofiches untergebracht, die wenig augenschonend zu recherchieren waren. Da hat man es heute mit der Datenbank doch leichter! Wenn Sie die “erweiterte Suche” aufrufen, kцnnen Sie gleich besser Merkmale miteinander verknьpfen und Sie sehen auch, dass Sie nach verschiedenen Materialarten getrennt oder gemeinsam recherchieren kцnnen. Die beiden wichtigsten sind links untergebracht: Druckausgaben und Online-Zeitschriften.

Gut: In Deutschland recherchiert man natьrlich bestimmte Titel und mцchte dann wissen, in welcher Bibliothek sie vorhand

OpThink the Search Engine for Reviews and OpinionsNovember 27

Planning the purchase of a new electronic product? OpThink may be the new location to go to get information regarding those products. The company’s unique, highly easy to use OpThink.com search engine is designed to facilitate the use of finding reviews and user opinions.

The average investor in electronic products will spend some time investigating, comparing and searching for additional information as well as reviews on the products they plan to purchase. From high end to low end electronic products, most people want to know how the product will work long before they make a purchase. Opthink.com allows for the gathering of this information.

The company is also working on the development of additional OpThink categories including cars, traveling, and restaurants. Consumers are now requested to submit URL’s or links to the company which contain the consumer reviews and commentary on them they believe could be helpful to OpThink’s network. This will help to get the reviews submitted and available to other consumers quickly.