com does track breaking news in over 30 different areas of the it industry, and also has increasingly begun to use online videos to further explain core concepts. Both sites however do not have more expanded coverage of leading edge technologies including latent semantic indexing, the use of search bots or automated routines to find and build semantic models of data from the Internet, and do not support the ability to benchmark once vendor against another. Both sites also don't go to the depth of technical information that ITToolbox.com does for example, for the hands-on practitioners of it development.

Why the site will or will not be used as part of a professional resources list

Both sites are very popular with it professionals from the developer level through management and to the senior management level. Both sites also provide excellent content and are on many professional resources lists as well due to the topical nature of the high quality content produced.

Reasons to return back to the site

Both sites have blogs, columnists and additional sources of content on a regular basis that give the readers many reasons to back to these sites. The analysis of immediate news from eweek.com and the strategic analysis of industry moves analyzed by Business Intelligence Network columnists are equally valuable.

What information was expected to be found and was not there Advanced development information of search engine technologies, specific examples of companies who have failed to successfully...

Both sites have specific requirements for links to deliver significant value to the content produced.
Additional Notes Regarding the Site

The variation in graphical approach to both sites is significant and worth looking at. The Business Intelligence Network is organized more for the line-of-business executive who is interested in learning more about how it developments will impact strategies. The eweek.com site is built for the more technologically-savvy who specifically want to drill down into the latest stories of interest.

Line Evaluation

Both sites are excellent, and both sites des4rved to be bookmarked and regularly visited during the week to see what's new in it and to become current and an expert in a field of interest.