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Very, according to Marcus Zillman, who provides a guide to deep web
resource sites and intelligent agents (bots) in this LLRX.com article.
These are utilities that can find sites not seen by conventional search
engines (content in databases, etc.)(Source: ResearchBuzz)

A Yahoo news article compares RSS favorably to e-mial, particularly given the proliferation of spam.  Source: The ResourceShelf

Update: Gary also linked to an article in Forbes on the same topic.

Michael J. Ravnitzky published a list of FBI files to faciliate
accessing them under the freedom of information act (FOIA.)  The
site provides an alphabetical list and instructions for requesting
them.  (Source; the Virtual Chase)

There’s been a lot of discussion about search engines, particularly
crowning Google king and so forth.  Yet Bernie Sloan on
LIBLICENSE-L pointed to an interesting article about federated
searching – how libraries design web interfaces that can search
multiple sources at once – both proprietary sources (literature
databases) and freely available resources, some things that search
engines can’t index.  The California Digital Library has been
working on this for years and Harvard has its Metalib project
underway.  Stay tuned.

Update(noon): LISNews points to a New York Times article correlating Google’s popularity with internet credibility in general.

A beta product in Google labs enables one to type in a search query for
a product (e.g. pizza, vacuum cleaner) and then a location (e.g. zip
code, city, state, etc) (Source: the Virtual Chase)

An article details librarians’ objections to the USA PATRIOT act in the
context of our efforts over centuries to promote intellectual freedom
and resist government restrictions on citizens’ ability to access and
read information.

An article about “spyware” and programs that stop it. (Source: beSpacific)

Source; Dave Winer