Chinese search giant Baidu has been caught allowing unlicensed medical suppliers to buy higher ranks in its search results, causing some Chinese citizens to lose thousands of yuan on ineffective treatments. | arstech

yet another search tool to find archived internet pages by university of washington and ¿adobe?

interacting with the ephemeral web. watch the video. worthwhile.

it's not just seeing the updates of a site, it's also about combining data in a nice, handy visualized way.

With Zoetrope, one can explore past versions of entire pages or place lenses on any part of a webpage to scan backwards through time (e.g., to see all previous top headlines on CNN’s page). Lenses can be filtered with keyword and other queries or bound together to explore correlated historical data ... ... The left browser window shows a webpage for Seattle traffic conditions. A person draws a lens on the region of interest (the bridges crossing Lake Washington) and specifies a temporal filter, selecting only content fetched between 6-7pm (i.e., 18-19 in 24 hour format). The browser window on the right shows the resulting lens, in purple, with tick marks on top indicating each instance of 6pm (the page is faded in the figure to emphasize the lens). Below the browser windows we show the Zoetrope transform and filter pipeline that enable this interaction ... | acm paper, subscription, sorry

have ot look into document object model, dom and also the piccolo library.

another search/content tool should be online tomorrow, europeana.

"two-stage multiresolution search" mean? mr alfred o hero - some call him the III - says upcoming and therefore isn't of real help right now. on the other side, he is the only one who knows, according to google ... yet there is e. bashan, too and more about two stage search ...