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« January 2000 | Main | March 2000 » February 29, 2000Real Beer
I don't drink beer, so I don't know too much about the topics at http://www.realbeer.com/ , but those of you who do partake of the stuff, you might want to search the RealBeer Library (links to the zines of online...
The Abraham Lincoln Papers at LOC
When I mentioned the other LOC collection a couple days ago, a few people wrote in to let me know I missed one -- the new Abraham Lincoln Papers collection at the LOC: http://memory.loc.gov/ ammem/alhtml/malhome.html . This is the first...
February 26, 2000Search News with NewsBlip
And another entry in our "search for current events news" category is NewsBlip, at http://www.newsblip.com/. NewsBlip is for REALLY current news -- it doesn't hold stories for more than four or five days -- which makes it great for searching...
February 25, 2000New Deja Beta
Thanks to Cam, I've seen the new Deja Beta at http://bx6.deja.com/ . This is the first time I've noticed "Deja.com -- Before You Shop." I humbly submit "Deja.com -- EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO DESIRE TO SHOP AT ALL." Interestingly,...
February 24, 2000FishBase!
Ik, ik, ik, ichthyologist, ik, ik, ichthyologist Sorry. Check out FishBase at http://www.fishbase.org/. FishBase aims to be a global database on fishes, though interestingly they intend their site to be used by all types of fish-enthusiasts, from fishermen to...
Another option for domain searching
http://www.namedroppers.com/ is another option for domain-name searching (and might have a future as a caffeine equivalent - looking at that yellow background in the morning is almost as good as a cup of coffee.) You can search .com, .net, .org,...
Leonard Bernstein Collection Announced
The Library of Congress has announced the online Leonard Bernstein Collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml /. Bernstein was a composer, conductor, writer, and teacher who died in 1990. The collection includes a selection of 85 photographs and over 1,100 pieces of correspondence....
Issues index for presidential candidates
If you want position-on-issue information for US presidential candidates, check out http://www.issues2000.org/. They have an extensive, crossindexed database of candidate stances. I found information on John McCain's stance on capital punishment, for example, that I wasn't able to find on...
Continue reading "Issues index for presidential candidates" » February 23, 2000Network Fusion Undergoes Research-Friendly Facelift
Network Fusion's new research area ( http://www.nwfusion.com/re search/index.html ) features search engines for specific technologies. Look at the technologies page. You'll see a list of technology topics there -- click on a topic and you'll find news, software, research, etc....
Continue reading "Network Fusion Undergoes Research-Friendly Facelift" » 1918 Cookbook Online and Searchable
If you're a creature who lives on ramen noodles or instant soup, you won't find too much interesting about Bartleby.com's new addition to their reference site, the 1918 edition of the Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (later known as the Fanny...
MSN ends Usenet access
MSN is ending access to Usenet for its users; story on it at http://news.cnet.com /news/0-1005-200-1555559.html . If you're affected with this and find yourself sans newsgroups, you can get access at Deja, of course ( see http://x29.deja.com/=kr /help/help_regstr.shtml for information...
February 22, 2000Meaning-Based Searching
Traffick has an overview article on meaning-based searching. They cover Oingo, SimpliFind, and a new one I hadn't heard of called ejemoni. http://www.traffick.com/s tory.asp?StoryID=57...
New business portal on the way
Excite@Home is teaming up with Dow Jones to create a portal for small- and medium- sized businesses, but not a whole lot of details right now. http://news.cnet.com /news/0-1008-200-1554488.html...
Squishing the Dialog Rumors
Information Today clarifies: Thomson is not buying Dialog...yet... http://www.infotoda y.com/newsbreaks/nb000221-3.htm...
Private Search Engine from TopClick
TopClick announced today the launch of what they're calling their "Private Search Engine" service. The engine is built around the following promises (from the press release): 1. No unsolicited banner advertising will appear in the search results (customers will be...
Internet Theatre index launches
The Internet Theatre index launches this week with links to over 1,200 Web sites at http://www.dramaturgy.net/index/. The ITI, as you might imagine, concerns the theatre and contains links to publications, organizations, web directories, and performances, among other categories....
February 21, 2000BIP online
Got a spare $1,850.00 in your sock drawer? R.R. Bowker has launched the booksinprint.com 2000 Web site, with a database of 3.2 million titles. In addition to the book listings the database now contains 500,000 full-text book reviews. The $1,850.00...
Yahoo Calendar launches
Reader JR reports that EventCal was owned by WebCal, which was purchased by Yahoo in July 1998. (See http://www.yahoo.com/docs /pr/release203.html for more details.) I guess so. If you try to go to http://www.webcal.com you end up at Yahoo! Calendar. Thanks...
WorldSkip covers the world
WorldSkip ( http://www.worldskip.com/ ) is a nicely designed clearinghouse of information on every country in the world. On the front page you'll find pulldown menus for six different areas of the world. Use the pulldown menu to choose a country...
February 19, 2000Road construction and nice cars
Planning a trip? Check out Rand McNally's new Road Construction database at http://www.ran dmcnally.com/plan/road_construction.ehtml . Rand McNally gathers information from all 50 United States and some Canadian provinces and updates its database twice a month. You can search by state,...
Mohomine mohoEngine
From the press release: "Mohomine was founded in 1999 by Sameer Samat, now chief technology officer, along with three other computer science students from the University of California. Late last year the company launched the mohoEngine(TM), a new and proprietary...
Nawal.com
Nawal.com ( http://www.nawal.com/ ) is a search engine for Web sites of Arab origin. Currently it has over 2,000 sites in 10 different categories....
February 18, 2000AltaVista in Dutch
AltaVista search is now available in Dutch: http://www.altavista.nl/...
No X-rated Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is scuttling its plans to provide an x-rated answer service. From CNET: http://news.cnet.com /news/0-1005-200-1553365.html...
February 17, 2000Meaning-based searching
Meaning-based searching: fascinating article from Wired. CONTEXT CONTEXT CONTEXT CONTEXT! That's what it's all about! Hokey pokey! http://www.wired .com/wired/archive/8.02/autonomy.html...
Yahoo wants to improve
Yahoo is in talks with several European groups with the aim of "improving its portal." http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_93952_Ext,00.html...
February 16, 2000Magic Tricks Galore!
There's a searchable database of information on magic at http://www.magictricks.com/library/library.htm . MAN, there's a lot of information here! You'll find, among other things: real names of magicians, biographies (over 700!) magical world records, glossary of magical terms and a directory...
Flyswat 2.0
Tom Spring likes Flyswat 2.0: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,15294,00.asp...
Library HQ
Library HQ ( http://www.libraryhq.com/welcome.html ) has a searchable database of useful Web sites, indexed "in MARC format," and reviewed by librarians. Web sites may be searched by subject, author, or title. At the moment there are just under 6400 sites...
February 15, 2000Webpilots.net
Webpilots.net ( http://www.webpilots.net ) calls itself a "recommendation pilot"; it has human editors that set up "pilots" for subjects. (They promise that more pilots will be added frequently.) Here's how it works. Pick a pilot. A window pops up with...
Wireless search engine
There's a search engine for WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) resources at http://www.wapwarp.com/ . It (WapWarp) is in beta, and is designed to run on as many browsers as possible, including wireless devices like PalmPilot. For a more Yahooesque presentation of...
February 14, 2000Metabrowsing
An article from Traffick.com discusses "metabrowsing," covering services including Octopus and QuickBrowse: http://www.traffick.com/story.asp?StoryID=54...
February 13, 2000Ixquick
A reader writes in to recommend meta-search engine Ixquick ( http://www.ixquick.com/ ). Ixquick meta-searches news, MP3 directories, and the Web. Interesting thing about it is that it awards one star for each search engine that places a site in its...
February 12, 2000Infonautics and Newsdirectory
Infonautics (producer of Company Sleuth, Entertainment Sleuth, etc.) has purchased media directory site http://www.newsdirectory.com . From the press release: "...'Over time, we plan on combining our Infonautics Sleuth services with an integrated set of search and reference sites that tailor...
Google cache info
Google ( http://www.google.com ) has a new notice on their cached pages. I've always wondered how, with all this controversy about even LINKING to another page, they manage to get away with caching entire pages. It's awfully convenient for searching,...
February 11, 2000ObitFinder
I don't want to get all creepy on you, but you genealogists out there might enjoy ObitFinder, which searches the recent obituaries of over 1200 newspapers. You can narrow your search by state or search by name and/or keyword. http://www.legacy.com/ObitFinder.asp...
Skworm metasearch engine
Metasearch engine Skworm ( http://www.skworm.com/) offers meta searching in lots of different categories. Instead of pulling back the results on their own page, though, Skworm offers a framed page and frames the search results from each engine or resource. It...
Kenjin
PC World reviews Kenjin: "It reads and analyzes the text on your screen, picks out the major themes, and then combs the Internet for links related to those subjects. Kenjin works with almost any sort of document, whether you're working...
HotBot archives
HotBot goes WAY back in time! http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1548544.html...
Search King
A couple of people have mentioned Search King to host the ResearchBuzz link directory. Anyone know anything about 'em? http://www.searchkingportal4u.com/ ....
AltaVista Weirdness
AltaVista Weirdness: Want to see something weird? Put the following query in AltaVista ( http://www.av.com ): +travel +mountains +guide +packages +nepal Okay? Now put the same query in Google ( http://www.google.com ). You'll get about 600 results in Google and...
February 10, 2000Many, many horses
Search for horses! http://www.equindex.net/ has over 65000 pages....
February 09, 200019 clicks of separation
Tom Paulson of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer takes a look at the "19 clicks of separation" theory of the Web. FASCINATIN' stuff. "Scientists say [the web is] developing according to the same organizing patterns and mathematical principles observed among plant life...
Plethora of new searching tools
A few? A couple? A bunch? A stack? No! A PLETHORA! TechWeb takes a look at the "plethora" of new searching tools, including SimpliFind and ULinkIt. http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000208S0004....
Broadband Excite(ment)
If you have a pretty hefty processor (400Mhz is recommended) and you like being hit over the head with Flash presentations, check out Excite's broadband concept site, Excite Extreme: http://www.exciteextreme.com/ . (You can view it with a dialup, but it'll...
PublicFigure.com
PublicFigure.com has in-depth information on 5,000 of the most famous people in the world, with biographical information on 17,000 more. Their site is divided into several sections (entertainment, politics, sports, etc.) and they offer breaking news information as well as...
February 08, 2000National Library of France now online
Now online: France's National Library. Wow! "In one click of the mouse, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF) added 35,000 books -- in French, of course -- and 35,000 images to its new Gallica 2000 Web site, making France the...
Popularity Engines
Traffick has an article looking at "Popularity Engines" like Direct Hit: http://www.traffick.com/story.asp?StoryID=53...
AltaVista Multimedia
PC World has an article looking at the changes in AltaVista's multimedia index: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,15167,00.asp...
February 07, 2000Taxman's webpage
Wondering where all your tax money goes? US residents can find out; the proposed 2001 federal budget is online at http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/....
February 06, 2000Windows search engines
Despite its name, http://www.searchwin2000.com/ is a search engine for both WinNT and Win2000 sites. There are currently over 7000 pre-screened sites in this engine, with additional news, tech tips, and events. From this site you can also reach searchstorage.com (for...
Workgroup Functionality
Those cool folks at the Xerox PARC have put together an online bookmark manager that focuses on workgroup functionality. Read about it at Network World Fusion ( http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/2000/85952_01-31-2000.html ) or check it out for free -- it's currently in beta...
February 05, 2000Jobs at Hoovers
Business information site Hoovers.com has placed a job meta-search engine on their site. It's available now and you can reach it at http://www.hoovers.com/global/corp/index.xhtml?pageid=4448....
Powerize.com
PC World takes a look at business research resource Powerize.com: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,15126,00.asp...
I thought I saw that before
Ditto.com ( http://www.ditto.com ) is an image search engine that allows you to both browse by category or search by keyword. They claim to have no pornography: ""Human filters" preview every picture ditto.com shows, eliminating objectionable material and applying editorial...
February 03, 2000Details on Altavista's new deal
Danny Sullivan has a nice little bit that explains about AltaVista's new deal -- they're not really going "open source" and they're not giving away their source code. Which is a shame because with about a zillion dollar's worth of...
Ask Jeeves with an accent
Did you know there was Ask Jeeves in the UK? http://Ask.co.uk/...
February 02, 2000Better Internet Search Engines, part 3
Online Journalism Review columnist Paul Grabowicz has a column on his favorite search engine features at http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=320 . If you like this article be sure to check out the other two parts (you'll find links at the right hand side...
Backflip network launches
Online bookmark site Backflip (http://www.backflip.com ) today announced the launch of the Backflip Network, which includes sites like Red Herring and the SF Gate. These sites are going to incorporate Backflip into their sites, allowing users to create their own...
AskJeeves to be sued?
Uh-Oh. Is Ask Jeeves being threatened with legal action by the literary agents of the late PG Wodehouse? BBC News has a story about this, along with speculation about how they could rename the search engine if it's required. I...
February 01, 2000LookSmart New Zealand
LookSmart announced this morning that it has launched a new country-specific resource:LookSmart New Zealand at http://www.LookSmart.co.nz/ ....
Big news from AltaVista
AltaVista has made two pretty big announcements today. First announcement is that they're opening up their source code. Second announcement is that they're starting an affiliate program -- you'll be able to make 3 cents for every click-through to their...
Need to find a Rig?
Rigmatch, beloved by many readers for its Gulf Coast drilling permit database (I'm serious. I got FAN MAIL after including that resource. Amazing!) has officially launched its search engine for the oil and gas industry. It covers 1000 sites, they...
Black History Month Resource
In recognition of Black History Month, InfoPlease has assembled a resource center containing biographic information about famous African Americans, features, and a civil rights timeline. Access it at http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html ....
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