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« December 1999 | Main | February 2000 » January 31, 2000Go.com drops out
You've probably heard this already, but Go.com is dropping out of the portal race. Details at http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/go000128.html . I'm working on an article called "Yahoo's Secret Weapon," that addresses this issue....
January 30, 2000Oingo oingo!
Traffick has a nice little story about Oingo ( http://www.oingo.com/ ) and what it's been up to lately. Go Oingo go! http://www.traffick.com/story.asp?StoryID=49...
January 29, 2000SearchEdu.com article
Sun Herald columnist Jeff Roslow takes a close look at SearchEdu.com in this column: http://www.sun-herald.com/newsarchive2/012300/cl2.htm ....
More words in the dictionary
The Merriam-Webster dictionary announced yesterday that they have put the year 2000 update of their dictionary online at http://www.m-w.com . Unfortunately I don't have any cool information like what words were added....
askFact City
Fact City is natural language query software like Ask Jeeves, but the difference is its scope and its reply. Ask Jeeves handles questions like, "What's the best way to make a peach cobbler?" with aplomb -- not always helpfully, but...
January 28, 2000More commercials?
Media Researchers! Check out http://www.commercial-archive.com/ , which is an archive of commercials -- over 950 of 'em. You can view them by category of product or item brand. The commercials go back to the '80s and require either QuickTime or...
Dr. EEVL an engineer?
Online engineering information resource EEVL announced today that it has become the WWW Virtual Library for Engineering. They also announced the addition of the 5,000th site to its searchable subject index of engineering and a site redesign. You can check...
Mozilla keeps moving...
Browser Mozilla has gone into release Milestone 13, which is their Alpha release. You can download the release candidate at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/...
Super Bowl commercials
UPDATE: Speaking of ads, Yahoo! has announced that they will be showcasing the Super Bowl ads on their Web site immediately following the Super Bowl (around 10pm EST.) A Yahoo spokesperson tells me most of the ads will be available...
January 27, 2000Who's heard of Google?
Smart Computing has an interesting list of what they consider to be the best little-known search tools out there. Includes stuff like Oingo and Google. (Google is little-known?) (another messy URL) (thanks GP!)...
Patent Law site
Interested in patent law? Check out http://www.patentlawlinks.com , a browsable subject directory of patent law links. Links include worldwide patent office sites, legal search engines, legal templates, and patent law firms. The also offer what appears to be a mailing...
Google at Stanford
Did you know Google has a specialty search for Stanford University? http://www.google.com/univ/stanford...
How do you say....
For those of you who have a lot of non-English language visitors to your English-language Web sites, you may want to check out http://www.wordreference.com/ , which offers a free service that makes every word on your Web page translatable to...
It's the most wonderful time of the year
It's January and not only am I sending along election resources, I'm going to mention taxes. I ought to be ashamed of myself. Yahoo has launched the Yahoo Tax Center at http://taxes.yahoo.com/ . Resources include calculators, a directory of Web...
Continue reading "It's the most wonderful time of the year" » January 26, 2000SearchEdu for Education
http://www.searchedu.com/ restricts its search to education sites. They say they have 20 million pages in their database and, like Google, SearchEdu keeps a copy of each indexed page in a cache so even if you can't connect to a site...
NewsLibrary expands
NewsLibrary ( http://www.newslibrary.com ) announced on Monday that it was adding the following papers to its archive service: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Denver Post, The Palm Beach Post, The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA), Watertown Daily Times (New York), and The...
Annotate web pages
Annotate.net, last mentioned in the 12/6/99 ResearchBuzz, has announced that their Annotate.net software has left beta and is now available in version 1.0 for free at http://www.annotate.net/ . When you open your browser the Annotate software opens up too. When...
January 25, 2000About.com purchases ExpertCentral
About.com has purchased ExpertCentral. This article from PC World (thanks GT!)http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,14903,00.asp...
Ask Jeeves scores a Direct Hit
HUGE NEWS: Ask Jeeves is purchasing Direct Hit. Ask Jeeves, as you probably know, uses natural language searching technology at its site, http://www.askjeeves.com . Direct Hit ( http://www.directhit.com/ ) tracks what sites users visit when they use certain search terms,...
January 24, 2000Millionaire Jeeves
Could Ask Jeeves help you win Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, maybe -- but maybe not: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2425612,00.html...
January 21, 2000Mechanical engineering resources
Suddenly it's all about mechanical engineering resources. http://www.icrank.com/ offers free Web space and a search engine for mechanical engineering resources, plus links to vendors and discussion forums. It'd be interesting to hear from a mechanical engineer or engineering librarian whether...
Mortgage shopping
Search for Mortgage related information! http://www.AllMortgageSearch.com/...
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