The Credibility Commons. ‘The Credibility Commons is an experimental environment enabling individuals the opportunity to try out different approaches to improving access to credible information on the World Wide Web. Tools will be provided to researchers as well as the public, allowing them to try out search strategies, collections and other approaches to improving access. [...]

Microsoft challenges Google Scholar. ‘Microsoft has launched a rival to Google’s Scholar service, which searches academic information to help students and researchers. The initial beta release of Windows Live Academic Search focuses on computer science, electrical engineering and physics and is available in seven countries.’ Microsoft’s Google Scholar Rival Set to Go Live Microsoft reveals [...]

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed. [via Ponto Media]