- From: Holmgren, Stephanie (NIH/NIEHS) [E] <holmgren@niehs.nih.gov>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 16:26:35 -0400
- To: "public-semweb-lifesci hcls" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Hi Karen, I believe this is your proverbial needle - http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/pr/pr_060118.pdf. This press release was picked up by many bloggers and others in the information community; e.g., http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17910324 6&subSection=Breaking+News. What's fascinating is that people will search in one search engine for another search engine rather than typing the desired engine's URL into the address bar. Related to item (1) is a study by IDC on "The High Cost of Not Finding Information". It relates to Enterprise-wide Search tools, but provides some interesting numbers. http://www.viapoint.com/doc/IDC%20on%20The%20High%20Cost%20Of%20Not%20Fi nding%20Information.pdf. A related article is "You are wasting time. Find out why." This article highlights other market reports on the cost of ineffective searching. http://edge.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/export/hom e/httpd/htdocs/news/2007/012307-wasted-searches.html&pagename=/news/2007 /012307-wasted-searches.html&pageurl=http://www.networkworld.com/news/20 07/012307-wasted-searches.html&site=applications. Staggering cost of information overload - http://om-online.com/articles/staggering_cost_of_infoglut.pdf >From a medical perspective, one of the major costs of ineffective information retrieval is loss of life. A tragic example is the Hopkins volunteer who died from ingesting hexamethonium in 2001. Pre-1966 medical literature described adverse effects from ingestion, but this literature was not searched. Essentially because it was only available in print and was not searchable through the web-based version of PubMed. The full report of the investigation has been made widely available on the internet at http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/researchvolunteerdeath.html. Regards, Stephanie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephanie Holmgren, M.S.L.S. Biomedical Librarian National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 111 Alexander Drive, PO Box 12233, MD A0-01 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 Phone: 919-541-2599 Fax: 919-541-0669 E-mail: holmgren@niehs.nih.gov Http://library.niehs.nih.gov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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