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The article focuses on Google's AI Overviews, a self-initiated artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that generates responses to search queries and places them at the top of search results. Topics include the comparison between AI Overviews and its predecessor, Search Generative Experience (SGE), the chatbot's accuracy and link quality, and its impact on content creators and the broader content aggregation landscape.

The article explores the potential for challenging traditional concepts of knowledge creation and transfer through the practices of energy transfer using Usui Reiki Ryoho and sound healing through binaural beats. It mentions the aim to define and discuss Reiki and binaural beats, examining how they can contribute to knowledge curation through less conventional means. It highlight the series aims to shed light on their potential to expand our understanding of knowledge production.

The article discusses the growing importance of understanding and utilizing generative Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT in libraries for storytelling and other tasks, emphasizing the need for familiarity to provide quality assistance. Topics covered include using ChatGPT for playful storytelling, satire writing, and creating stories with serious themes for educational purposes, highlighting both the surprising capabilities and limitations of the tool.

The article offers information on creating memorable experiences for parties and events. Topics include the trend of immersive experiences for both large and small gatherings, spreading joy through event planning to create unforgettable experiences, and the rise of online parties as a fun and engaging alternative.

The article focuses on the value of old-school Windows freeware software and provides insights on discovering and using such software, highlighting useful utilities for various tasks. It discusses reliable sources for finding freeware, showcases specific utilities for tasks like text cleanup, image editing, and local indexing and search, and explores the intersection of freeware and Artificial Intelligence (AI), noting instances where AI technologies have surpassed traditional freeware tools.

The article introduces Inkleaf, a groundbreaking library software project initiated by John Blyberg, emphasizing its mission to simplify the lives of library workers by addressing common frustrations with existing software solutions. Topics include covering Inkleaf's purpose and features, Blyberg details its evolution beyond a conventional intranet, offering a comprehensive platform encompassing a knowledge base, staff directory, discussion threads, blogs, and a form builder.

The article discusses the concept of anthropomorphism, which involves attributing human traits to non-human entities. It highlights how anthropomorphism is commonly applied to technology, such as humanoid robots and AI tools like digital assistants and chatbots. The article cautions against anthropomorphizing AI, emphasizing that AI is not truly sentient or conscious and that misperceptions about AI's capabilities can lead to misguided decisions.

The article reviews the capabilities of ChatGPT, particularly when integrated into Microsoft's Bing search engine, highlighting its writing quality, sources, accuracy, timeliness and search modifications. It discusses the impact of AI-driven tools like ChatGPT on information professionals and the way they access and process information.

The article discusses the evolution of online search systems from command-driven ones to natural language search and, most recently, machine learning-based search systems like ChatGPT, which have the potential to reshape information retrieval but also raise concerns about alignment risk and control over the search process.

The author discusses the use of chatbot ChatGPT and decision to learn Artificial Intelligence (AI) based language model. Topics discussed include experimentation on using the chatbot to develop job decription for an academic librarian, asking the chatbot to help write an agreement, and develop a cover letter with ChatGPT.

The article evaluates a new software product called kOS developed by Helper Systems, a company founded by Christopher Warnock, co-founder of ebraryt which offers users to search, index, and manage large groupings of PDF files, with the goal of making the world's information more accessible.

The article focuses on Datebase review. Topics discussed include according to infographics chronicler Gareth Cook, this is the golden age of visual storytelling, a period defined by enormous amounts of data, a hunger for clear and concise explanations of it, and lots of marvelous infographics software; and Visual Capitalist is a commercial infographics firm that was founded in 2011 with the tagline "Make the world's information more accessible."

This section provides news briefs on the information services industry as of December 2010. Thomson Reuters Legal, LexisNexis and Bloomberg launched legal platforms. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) upgraded its IEEE Xplore digital library. John Wiley & Sons Inc. introduced its Wiley Online Library.

The article offers multiple news briefs. Topics discussed include 2022 will be the year when humans and AI work together to drive enterprise performance; Organizations will focus on AI initiatives that augment human performance, not replace humans with machines; and Businesses will expect vendors to deliver comprehensive AI-enabled solutions for line of business teams instead of focusing on developer tools and technologies for IT.

The article offers information on several Internet of Things (IoT) products including the Apple Watch wearable, the Amazon Echo virtual assistant, and the smart home automation from Intel. INSET: Microsoft's Bid for IoT Relevance.

The article presents an overview of digital and information technologies in corporate research and development (R&D) programs. Particular focus is given to data management and organization in R&D laboratories to improve workflow efficiency and reduce costs. Other topics include sharing of information among researchers, employment of skilled foreign-born workers, and the use of mobile electronic devices and applications in R&D. INSET: Importing Skilled Workers.

The article presents information about conferences held by LexisNexis legal research services firm and Thomson Reuters financial data firm as of March 1, 2013. The article notes Thomson Reuter's meeting was held in Minnesota where the company's Legal business president Mike Suchsland talked about innovation. It also notes the LexisNexis Influence Summit was held in New York City and focused on research and litigations services (RSL). INSETS: What's New From LexisNexis;What's New From Thomson Reuters.

The article presents predictions for trends in the information technology industry for 2013 by consultant Patricia Sabosik. Topics include the continuing demand for content and applications for mobile electronic devices, unstructured data and data indexing, and electronic publishing. Several information technology companies are profiled, such as EBSCO Publishing, ProQuest, and SAGE Publications.

The article focuses on research and development in application programming interfaces (API). It states that speed to market is essential for innovative products to reach markets before the competition and can also be vital for end users. It comments on increased collaboration, interconnectedness, and transparency in research and comments on publisher Elsevier's development of its ClinicKey product platform that provides physicians with critical care information in a timely fashion.

The article discusses how many content aggregators are leveraging research garnered from user studies in order to provide the best user experiences (UX) for customers. It says that the Factiva platform of Dow Jones & Co. aggregates business information from thousands of sources across various industries and delivers it to users in 26 languages. According to the author, e-research provider Gale conducts different types of user testing studies like observational research.

The article emphasizes the need for information centers to provide multilingual content as part of their core competency. It says that this is due to the increasing global nature of the economy where decision-makers should be able to find real-time data and discern meanings from local language news sources or databases. It also attributes this to a population that is becoming more diverse even in domestic settings.

This section offers international news briefs related to the information industry in July 2011. Knovel has decided to expand its suite of market trend analysis tools to include extractive metallurgy and mining engineering. The Ex Libris Group has added the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the U.S. Bureau of National Affairs to its Primo Central Index of scholarly content. Thomson Reuters has expanded its Accelus suite of mergers and acquisition (M&A) legal products.

The article informs about Microsoft's Cortana, a virtual assistant developed by Microsoft, which uses the Bing search engine to perform tasks such as setting reminders and answering questions for the users. It also mentions how Cortana helps with scheduling, joining an online meeting via Microsoft Teams, and find out about people who work in your organization.

The article describes how to improve search engine experience. Topics include the Featured Snippets box is most likely to appear when a search is in the form of a question; and suggested clips appears at the top of search page results, and it directs users to a portion of a video that seems to be a good match for their query.

The article reports on publisher Gale's launch of its Digital Scholar Lab platform at the American Library Association's 2018 Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits held in February in Denver, Colorado, and outlines the features of the cloud-based service.

The article focuses on the developments in the CD-ROM industry in 1994. The 1994 saw impressive new databases, many intuitive and powerful search engines with nifty user interfaces, impressively fast CD-ROM drives, and smart marketing decisions. CD Plus Technologies is one of the best performing CD-ROM company in 1994. It had published some of the most widely used and most valuable CD-ROM databases with the superb OVID software for Windows, DOS, and UNIX platforms, often breaking the one-database, one-software monopoly, and for launching their online service, which perfectly complements the CD-ROM offerings. What makes OVID stand out from the crowd. is that it offers practically equivalent capabilities across platforms, has the best index browsing and thesaurus handling capabilities, bringing the best out of MEDLINE, EMBASE, ERIC, PsycLIT, and the Wilson family of databases. The best consumer-oriented user interface and search engine was built by Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Viewer, which is the underlying software in all of their products, allows even the most computer-shy users to easily navigate, search, display, and download results and to enjoy the top quality Microsoft Home Series databases.

This article presents information about the future of the online information services industry. Annual subscriber growth rates for electronic information the next five years should be at least double what they were from 1987 to 1994. That would translate into an average annual growth rate of about 20 percent for the period, which would mean that, by 1999, nearly 4,500,000 new users would have joined the estimated three million currently using online business services. By 1999, at least a half-dozen large computer, software, or telecommunications vendors will have made a significant entrance into the electronic information services marketplace. Their entrance will further speed up the rate of change in the industry. Much of the battle for leadership over the next five years will take place at the interface, defined as the piece of software that helps users decide what to search for, where to search, how to search it, how much to spend, and in what format to receive it. Whereas several million dollars have been spent on interfaces in the past five years, by 1999, the investment in interface development will be easily in the range of tens of millions of dollars.

The article discusses the future of CD-ROM multimedia development. The publishing, telecommunications, and cable industries are in a mating frenzy, and the media is in a feeding frenzy. The Information Superhighway is to deliver multimedia information, not merely text. Behind the icon-rich user interfaces of online consumer information services one will find software with extremely limited browsing abilities. They are capable of nothing more than finding a term if it is a lead term in an article title, and then showing the text of the article. It is not a bit more interactive than the printed encyclopedia, which, however, has glossy pictures, high quality illustrations, and eye-pleasing typeset text. On Compuserve and AOL there are no pictures, no illustrations. Infotech claims that there was a $3 billion CD-ROM market in 1993, with 20% of it for multimedia. DataQuest, the other major industry watcher, feels that this number is vastly overstated, and a $600 million figure would be more realistic for the entire CD-ROM market.

The article presents information about CD-ROM Expo 1993. Consumer-oriented databases dominated the expo. This is good news, as the large volume sales of mass market products will provide the incentives for developing better user interfaces and cheaper and more powerful hardware, which will benefit the players in the professional market. The Expo was a perfect showcase of what is to come. Parents will be happy to plunk down $30-40 dollars, not only for the awesome dinosaurs databases shown in abundance at the Expo, but also for the educational and recreational titles exhibited in large numbers. Small upstart companies will feel encouraged to come out with genuine design and content rather than derivatives and follow-ups of movie and TV blockbusters. There was a plethora of software for authoring CD-ROM titles, ranging from the inexpensive but disarmingly intuitive Easy CD from Pro CD Inc., to the most powerful and flexible CD Author from Dataware Technologies Inc., and the very popular Windows version of Personal Librarian.

The article focuses on the strategies adopted by the U.S. online industry to market new products and services in the country. Professional searchers may look at the introduction of a new pricing scheme. For example, Dow Jones slashed its non-prime time searching costs in January 1993 to a record low-$9.00/ connect-hour plus 30 cents per 1,000 characters transmitted. Information professionals everywhere know that online data costs too much, that the high perceived price of searching restricts the growth of the industry. A missionary view of a higher goal might lead to a policy of restraint, especially if buttressed by a more mundane aversion to changing work procedures for a transient benefit. Building end-user markets requires a multi-faceted marketing strategy. Better end-user interfaces or alternative media output won't break through market resistance without lowered prices. Changing price structures is not a stand-alone instrument for changing market behavior either. Strategies should combine lowered prices with volume-building actions that together accelerate usage fast enough to achieve momentum.

This article focuses on the future of CD-ROM user interfaces. CD-ROM user interfaces can not please everyone. The majority of CD-ROM databases are offered in one version, with one and only one user interface. This is very different from the online world where many of the databases are available through the software of at least four or five online services. The trend of making available one datafile with different user interfaces is likely to accelerate in 1993 when many of the exclusive agreements between the database publishers and the CD-ROM producers expire. Sociofile, for example, will be available not only with the Silver-Platter software but also with the much improved new version of CORE software from Compact Cambridge in early 1993. So also will be the clinical subset of PsycLIT. Still, users will have to choose one version or the other, and neither may sport the user interface with which users are familiar. Government agencies, user groups, and CD-ROM producers all have presented standardization proposals to alleviate the problem of learning different interfaces when CD-ROM databases of various publishers are to be searched.

The article focuses on compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM) standards. As CD-ROM titles proliferated and more and more CD-ROM drives were installed, the issue of inconsistent retrieval interfaces loomed large. Libraries and other information-intensive organizations tend to be most affected by the wide variety of search and retrieval interfaces available today. Library patrons are faced with an increasing number of interfaces to learn and have to be concerned about different function keys and procedures for different CD-ROM applications. Some libraries are even making CD-ROM purchasing decisions based on the product's user interface. The standards issue reawakened as users found that there was little or no standardization of the retrieval software in CD-ROM products. Soon a number of government and industry groups began to seek solutions to the problem of inconsistent interfaces and lack of interoperability among CD-ROM products. A major force driving a CD-ROM retrieval protocol standard is the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The article presents an update on compact disc (CD)-ROM databases as of September 1989. Three groups of issues arise in placing CD-ROM databases on networks: architectural issues, performance issues, and user interface issues. All are intertwined. This article also provides a brief introduction to the CD-ROM networking issues that affect both today's textual and numerical databases and tomorrow's multimedia databases. To provide more flexibility, as well as better performance, the CD-ROM on the network should be redesigned as a high-level network server.

The article discusses the EOL (Encyclopedia of Life) project. It states it aims to provide a webpage which has a global access to information about life on Earth integrating contents which are operated by six scientific organizations including Harvard University, the Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Smithsonian Institution and 1600 curators maintain quality. It mentions the project includes all forms of life covering many aspects including anatomy, natural history, and distribution.

The article reviews the web site for digital news, located at theconversation.com, which includes information on news events and current affairs.

The article reviews website Audible, collection of audiobooks owned by Amazon, located at audible.com.

The article focuses on the growing use of portable devices as sources of information and reading material. Topics discussed include impact of development of intelligent app technology on library resources; research made by Exact Editions on offering individuals access to magazines using location-based services; and use of systems that offers commercial benefit to the publishers.

The article reviews several web sites including News Deeply located at www.newsdeeply.com, Syria Deeply located at www.syriadeeply.org, and Ebola Deeply located at eboladeeply.org.

The article discusses about enterprise search system, its similarities and differences with web search. It mentions a Google's Custom Search Engine, the Google Search Appliance (GSA) which provides intranet and web content access to users. It also cites a federated search system and enumerates the companies that developed products for it which include Vivisimo, Attivio, and BrightPlanet.

The author says Google's handling of the phrase concept searching which could be an information retrieval term or the name of a vendor was misleading. He believes a system which provides intellectual training is preferable. He looks forward to next-generation information access systems which provide predictive functions which automatically observe, collect, analyze and present information.

The article discusses trends that can affect the digital information industry in 2015. Topics covered include the volatile political situation, adaption to structural changes and challenges in privacy and data security, improvement of sustainability and trading with virtual currency such as the bitcoin. Also mentioned are the Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (GAFA) interface, artificial intelligence (AI), job strategies and the rising need to connect with people.

The article reviews the features of French search engine Qwant Search to assess its possibility of surpassing the popularity of Google. Topics covered include the contextual search system of Qwant as compared to advertising-oriented Google, its columnar information display and one-click access to new trends without the need for keywords. Also mentioned are the use of Pertimm engine for Qwant applications seen as a metasearch system and the readability challenge for mobile applications.

The article offers information on the goal of William Patterson University reference librarian Cara Berg for students to get them to understand what they are searching for through currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose (CRAAP). It mentions that key to the comprehension is to learn how to determine the credibility of various sources and to acknowledge the facts which can influence the credibility.

The article focuses on the changes and developments in social networking industry. It offers information on the redesigning of the Yahoo! Inc., multinational Internet corporation with personalized features. It states that the competitive pressures helps in operating on consumer-oriented companies and enterprise system.

The author discusses Internet news services as of November 2013, arguing that although services such as FlipBook and Pulse provide news headlines for user browsing, it is more difficult to search for specific news stories than at any time since 2003. News services such as The Big Project news dashboard and the NewsNow aggregator are mentioned.

The article presents information on a fully managed cloud computing search service from Amazon called Amazon Cloud Search.

The article presents information on the heads-up display computer interface Google Glass, which resembles a pair of eye glasses and delivers augmented reality to consumers who use it.

The article reviews the Udini online end-user research information service from ProQuest, including the user interface, the comprehensiveness of the multidisciplinary subject content, and the inclusion of notable periodicals in the database. INSET: Udini.

The article comments on the blog post “Enterprise Search vs. Google Search,” by Chris Crawford of the management consulting firm Accenture, which discusses the company's decision to use the Microsoft Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) enterprise search system instead using the Google Internet search engine. Other topics include the concept of findability in enterprise search, the importance of cost efficiency in information services, and competition from open source search vendors.