Researchers Turn Web Blather to Books
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PITTSBURGH -- A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy...
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Tagging or labelling online content is becoming the new search tool of choice among web users, shows research.
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Health obsessives will be breaking out in a sweat when they read the latest research: browsing medical websites can be bad for you.
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The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.
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The web as your auld grannie might have wished it
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A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X.
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Scientists frustrated by the iron grip that academic journals hold over their research can now pursue another path to fame by taking their research straight to the public online.
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Taking a trip to the library may take little more than a computer&#39;s Web browser. Working with major libraries, Google is hoping to scan millions of books and periodicals into its popular
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New site doses social networking with literate lists. Plus: Is
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The search engine that revolutionised how people use the Internet has teamed up with some of the world&#39;s greatest libraries to put their books in your living room.
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Chinese publishers discover that online novel sales help move physical books off the shelves. And for a growing number of authors and readers, epic tales on the web are a thriving art form.
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Ever wanted to write a Java program that crawls the Web, reads HTML-pages, retrieves the links, and gets the new pages with more links? Well, this month Keld Hansen shows you how.
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Google late Wednesday rolled out a beta search tool designed for academics and other researchers digging through peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, and theses.
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An experimental interface lets users of handheld devices rearrange Web pages with a single pen stroke, collapsing unwanted elements and zooming relevant content.
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The mystery of how we read a sentence is unlocked by scientists.
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Allowing consumers to search the content of books online could shift the balance of power between companies that produce books and those that sell them.
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Students have developed a web-based tool which can automatically spot and update broken weblinks.