links for 2009-06-12

• Tool: What it’s Worth to Rank in Google, Yahoo and MSN
  'By combining the AOL User Search Data, Hitwise Search Engine Market Share and Overture Search Tool, you can now estimate with some certainty how many clicks to expect for ranking anywhere in any search engine for any term.'
  (tags: seo consumer+health+search)
• DISCERN - About this site
  'The DISCERN website contains an online version of the DISCERN instrument and handbook. The handbook is designed to help you understand and use DISCERN effectively, and can be used to support training. It has been written from the perspective of a health consumer (or patient), but can be used by anyone interested in information about treatment choices. '
  (tags: consumer+health+information search)
• The Internet is incomplete, says its co-designer, Vinton Cerf
  The co-designer of the Internet's basic architecture, Vinton Cerf, said the Internet "still lacks many of the features that it needs," particularly in security, during a blunt talk to a tech industry crowd here. Cerf, who is a vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google Inc., co-designed with Robert Kahn the TCP/IP protocols that underpin the Internet. That was in 1973. And despite its having become operational in 1983, and commercially available in 1989, the Internet remains incomplete, he said.
  (tags: internet innovation)