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Archived blogs for the week of April 10, 2006

1147 - April 11, 2006 - 8.55 AM EST

Search newspaper clippings at the Newspaper Archive

The Newspaper Archive.com contains over 35 million pages of historic newspaper clippings dating from 1753 to today.

Since March, it has launched a series of specialized collections pulled from the archive of digital newspaper images.

The topics that have been chosen lend themselves to a broad public interest, from historical figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln to current topics such as September 11.

You can tell from the topics that most of the newspapers indexed are from the United States, but you also find newspapers from Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Jamaica, Denmark, South Africa, and the US Virgin Islands.

At the time of writing there are nine free special interest archives averaging between 15 thousand and 50 thousand digitized newspaper pages, and there are more to come:

”We are adding to the collection at the rate of 2 new sites per week, says Jeffrey C. Kiley, General Manager of NewspaperARCIVES.

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1146 - April 10, 2006 - 4.10 PM EST

Yahoo's YPN continues to grow

Recent numbers reveal that the Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) is growing larger every day.

In an effort to ad more of a sense of community and communication between its YPN publishers, Yahoo just launched the Yahoo Publisher Network’s Blog at YPNblog.com.

Yahoo's Publisher Network blog plans to be a resource for publishers, by publishers.

In it, publishers will find not only what they might expect from a product-focused industry blog—the latest on issues, new releases, and tips—but also in-depth how-to’s, publisher interviews, industry trends, links to articles and other news and information you can use.

The blog is also intended to be a community platform that will help publishers learn how to be more successful and profitable publishers.

The YPNBlog, in the Yahoo & Wordpress (the technology which powers YPNBlog) community spirits, will also be publishing a weekly Publisher Spotlight. The Spotlight will feature sites which are doing something ‘groovy’ or a bit different with YPN. If you know of a YPN Publisher doing something a bit out of the box, send your nominations to YPN.

Additionally, YPNBlog has the mission of becoming a blog resource on contextual advertising and related happenings, keeping an eye on industry news, new plug-ins, forum conversations, hacks and add-ons.

Posted on Businessblog™

1145 - April 10, 2006 - 2.36 PM EST

Google acquires the Orion search engine algorithm

Orion, an advanced text search engine algorithm is being developed by University of NSW PhD student Ori Allon and his supervisor Dr Eric Martin.

Orion will make searches much less time-consuming, by working with existing search engines and expanding on their function.

Instead of finding pages on the net that contain keywords, then providing links, the new search engine will provide expanded text extracts which will eradicate the need to open every link.

Orion has sparked interest at Google and Yahoo, with Google acquiring the rights to the algorithm.

Twenty-six year-old Mr Allon, who was currently based at Google headquarters in California, said Orion would improve "the speed and focus of internet searches which is, as we all know, an invaluable service".

Dr Martin, who has supervised Mr Allon and helped develop Orion, said the search engine tool would make net surfing "much easier, and much less frustrating".

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