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Oh boy. The English teachers who read ResearchBuzz may get a little mad at me for this. Cliffs Notes are now available online at http://www.cliffsnotes.com . Yup, you can now download the Cliffs Notes for The Scarlet Letter instead of...
December 26, 1999Computer Currents Reports on Search Engines
More details on the state of search engine popularity from Computer Currents. Excite slumps, Go Network jumps, etc. Get all the details at (corrected). [Link corrected as of 11-16-2003: http://www.computeruser.com/newstoday/99/12/26/news2.html]...
Continue reading "Computer Currents Reports on Search Engines" » December 24, 1999Seeking Search Engines
Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post goes looking for a good search engine and has a rather hard time of it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/A29734-1999Dec23.html...
December 23, 1999When What To My Wondering Eyes Should Appear
Seeking Santa? Search! http://www.SantaSearch.com/...
Continue reading "When What To My Wondering Eyes Should Appear" » New LOC Announcement
LOC the halls with new collections, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la -oh, forget it. Anyway, the LOC has announced "Meeting of Frontiers" at http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfsplash.html (the site is available in English and Russian, and there's a gateway to both languages from this page.) Meeting...
December 20, 1999Ask Tec
Woo! If you liked bitpipe.com, check out http://www.asktec.com/ . Search several different IS/IT archives, including technologyevaluation.com, CIO.com, etc. There's also a yahooesque subject directory "coming soon," covering a variety of IS/IT topics including data warehousing and e-commerce....
December 17, 1999Yahoo! Going to the Dogs, Cats ...
Yahoo! has launched Yahoo! Pets at http://pets.yahoo.com . Dogs, cats, fish, horses, etc. With news, resources, polls, greeting cards, and more....
AskJeeves Reports
Plenty of AskJeeves.com in the news today -- good news and bad news. The good news is that AskJeeves is teaming up with Deja.com to offer Deja ratings on its Web site: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1500306.html Bad news is that Ask Jeeves is...
December 16, 1999Civil War Maps
The LOC has added another collection -- the Civil War Maps collection. There are approximately 2240 maps in this collection with 76 atlases and sketchbooks. The collection will be updated on a monthly basis. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml...
Query Counting
http://www.spellweb.com/ compares the occurrences of words in a search engine query. For example, I compared "stuffing" and "potatoes" in an Excite query. stuffing got 27,046 results and potatoes got 76,084 results. I guess potatoes win. A fun search engine...
December 10, 1999Real Software Launches Hotrate
Real Software has launched what it calls a "second generation" search engine at http://www.Hotrate.com . They're a weird/interesting mix of dmoz.org and epinions. On the one hand editors sign up to manage categories, add sites to the list, etc. They...
December 09, 1999Searching Streamed Media
Intriguing. Compaq is offering a search engine for spoken streamed media at http://speechbot.research.compaq.com/ . You can search for words in their entire database, or you can restrict your search to one of several shows, including Motley Fool, Fresh Air, and...
December 07, 1999Global Online Higher Education Institutions
More for those of you looking for higher education institutions on the Web. Braintrack -- http://www.braintrack.com/ -- has over 5,300 listings representing over 150 countries. You can search for an institution, browse through institutions based on geographical location (continent by...
Continue reading "Global Online Higher Education Institutions" » More Mailing Lists and Newsletters
More resources for mailing lists and newsletters! Meta-List.net ( http://www.meta-list.net/ ) allows you to search for over 230,000 mailing lists. You can search FOR several different languages, but currently the search interface is implemented in only TWO different languages --...
Moreover Sporting a New Look
Hmm?! What is this? A new look for headline aggregator Moreover? http://www.moreover.com/ now sports a less-cluttered interface and a lovely orange background. Take a look if you haven't yet. Looks like you might need JavaScript turned on for it to...
December 06, 1999ToggleBot
Looking for a new search engine? Have you checked out ToggleBot? http://www.togglebot.com claims 12 million URLs with 25 million URLs by next month. You may search their index, a meta-search, Mozilla's Open Directory, and auctions. They have more plans for...
Annotate.net in Beta
From today's BusinessWire: Annotate.net has announced beta testing for its new software/browser companion. Drop by the site ( http://www.annotate.net/ ) and check out the companion. (It currently only works for IE 5.0, though; see http://www.annotate.net/cs/whatis/faq.html for other system requirements.) Future...
December 05, 1999WebScout Indexes Mailing Lists
Looking for mailing lists and newsletters? Check out WebScout Lists, currently in beta, with an index of mailing lists (zines, discussion lists, newsletters, etc.) http://www.webscoutlists.com/...
Bartleby Publishes Emily Post's "Etiquette"
Bartleby.com has published the 627-page first edition of Emily Post's "Etiquette." It's at http://www.bartleby.com/95/ . This is the 1922 edition. I can't remember if this is the version that Dorothy Parker reviewed in "Constant Reader" or not....
Continue reading "Bartleby Publishes Emily Post's "Etiquette"" » LLRX Reviews Flyswat
From LLRX, a review of the search tool Flyswat: http://www.llrx.com/columns/flyswat.htm...
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