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ProductionHub ( http://www.productionhub.com/ ) has announced a searchable directory of companies and individuals in film, video, and digital production. The directory currently contains 65,000 listings. The company claims the database will grow to 150,000 listings by year's end. You can...
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Index Eireann, at http://www.index-eireann.com/ , has about 200,000 pages in its index at the moment but is still being built. In the meantime, in addition to searching the site's database you can link to other Irish search engines from...
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Lookin' for a magazine article? Get thee to the MagPortal at http://www.magportal.com/ . The site starts as a directory of magazine subjects. Pick a subject -- say, Internet -- and you get a sub-index AND a list of recent articles...
Continue reading "New Magazine Article Directory/Search Engine Launched" »
There's a collection of maps available at http://www.davidrumsey.com that has a lot of information, but there's a slow load getting there. The maps are from the David Rumsey Collection, and focus mainly on 18th and 19th century North and South...
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I know the news lately has been rather Googly; but when this much stuff is going on you gotta talk about it. In Yesterday's Google Friends newsletter (sign up yourself at http://www.egroups.com/group/google-friends/ ) Google promised that a family filter would...
Continue reading "Google Promises Family Filter, International Versions" »
The Electronic Journal Showcase at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html is a list of selected free- to-all full- text general medical journals (some are all free, all the time; some are free trials.) The name of the journal is given along with publisher name...
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eCoustics ( http://ecoustics.com ) has a searchable subject index covering a variety of things interesting to the stereo-head. Categories include Home Video, (313 links in the DVD category), resources (68 links to online magazines), and accessories (over 175 reviews of...
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Lookoff is offering a set of search engine tutorials at http://www.lookoff.com/tactics/index.php3 . The site is set up in book metaphor and covers a variety of information, from an overview of the Internet to tables on major search engines. Good resource...
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PicoSeach ( http://www.picosearch.com ) recently mentioned here for its support of Word, Excel, Postscript, and Rich Text Format, has announced that its site search service now supports information included in MP3 files by the ID3 tagging standard. This information...
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O'Reilly has released for public consumption Meerkat, a new way of viewing and organizing content syndicated using the RSS format. You can see it at http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/ . Places like my.userland.com allow you to set up a set of sites...
Continue reading "RSS Syndicated Content Junkies, Meet Meerkat" »
Britannica.com has launched a site devoted to the Oscars. The site pops up in a window with a less-annoying-than-usual Flash introduction (which can be skipped.) The left side of the screen is a Flash navigation tool which divides the...
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Noesis, at http://noesis.evansville.edu/bin/index.cgi , is a recently-revamped search engine covering philosophy. (It's in its beta of version 2.0.) The site allows you to either browse sub-categories having to do with philosophy ( The bulleted listings under "Subsections" -- Authors,...
Continue reading "I Think, Therefore I Am a Philosophy Search Engine" »
Bartleby.com ( http://www.bartleby.com ) announced yesterday the addition of several online reference works to their Web site (which has brought to you the Fanny Farmer Cookbook among other things.) They have added the following items: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
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Who knew I'd cover a resource whose domain name is ThePoop.com? But I am, since they host a searchable database of over 5,600 breed rescue groups and animal shelters. The database is searchable by organization name, city, state, zip...
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Woo! Reader MJ clued me into the site: syntax on Google, which works like the host: syntax on AltaVista, looks like. Try the query google site:researchbuzz.com And you'll get results for Google that are on ResearchBuzz.com. (Sixteen of 'em! Yikes.)...
Continue reading "Hey! A Google Special Syntax I Knew Nothing About!" »
Meta-Search Engine Ixquick ( http://www.ixquick.com/ ), last mentioned in the February 13 ResearchBuzz, has added several languages to its interface. You can now search sets of French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Web sites (Look at the bottom of the...
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Lots of words! ("60 million words describing nearly three-quarters of a million terms illustrated by more than 2.4 million quotations") Lots of additions! (thong, body-piercing, cyberspace, ecotage, etc.) Lots of pop culture! (Those quoted include Quentin Tarantino and Ice Cube.)...
Continue reading "The Oxford English Dictionary is Finally Online!" »
Yes, there is a searchable subject index based on the dmoz.org directory at http://directory.google .com/ . It is in beta, and it has been rearranged according to the Google page-ranking technology. And somehow Google has managed to blend in some...
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Lycos Asia (a joint venture between Lycos and Singapore Telecom) have launched Lycos Malaysia at http://my.lycosasia.com/ . The site I'm looking at is in English, and contains local information and pointers to local guides off the front page. The search...
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HarborTides.com, at http://www.harbortides.com/ is searchable by zip code or browsable by state. Enter a zip code (within 50 miles of the coast, please -- 90210 works) and HarborTides will give you the tide table for the week and also a...
Continue reading "Tide Tables for 2500 Harbors In the US" »
Reader JH wrote in with a story about using the + sign to force Google ( http://www.google.com ) to search for stopwords. She noted that a couple of attempts to force Google to search for the word "the" in a...
Continue reading "Google's Unconquerable Stopword" »
Yesterday's Washington Post had a story about upcoming job search engine FlipDog (read the story at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-03/09/260l-030900-idx.html .) You can see the FlipDog beta at http://www.flipdog.com/ . FlipDog looks like it's acting as a specialty search engine, scraping employer's...
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FortuneCity.com will launch Wapdrive ( http://www.wapdrive.com/ ) on March 11. There isn't much to see yet and I haven't heard back from the PR folks, but I'll share what I can get out of the press release. Wapdrive will allow...
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The Spire Project ( http://spireproject.com/webpage.htm ) has a bunch of search forms and information on searching. On a single page you'll get explanations and forms for search engines, meta-search engines, categorized links, collections of site reviews, and more. An excellent...
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PicoSearch ( http://www.picosearch.com/ ) today announced the addition of several formats to its site indexing service. In addition to HTML, PicoSearch's search engine can now index and search PDF, Postscript, MS Word (5,6,97, and 2000), Excel (5,6,97,2000), RTF, and Shockwave...
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So I'll just point you toward http://www.balletcompanies.com/ if you're looking for a resource for finding ballet and dance companies on the Web. There are over 1700 links to companies here, browsable by country while the site itself is searchable by...
Continue reading "Too Ill-Informed to Write a Headline Pun for BalletCompanies.com" »
CNET has an interesting story about two researchers who are working to make hyperlinks valid even when the links move. The idea is that any page can be uniquely identified by a combination of words that one may find on...
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GuideStar ( http://www.guidestar.org/ ) is a searchable database of over 620,000 nonprofits. The basic search is really basic: type a keyword in the box. Searching for "duck" (duck is apparently the search keyword of the day) found 36 results. The...
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Clickey ( http://www.Clickey.com/ ) is yet another domain name search engine, but it provides a different set of information than you might get using, say, Namedroppers.com. You can search by keyword or domain name. If you search by domain name,...
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Reader HC sent in a tip to the 6th Edition to the Columbia Encyclopedia at http://www.bartleby.com/65/ . If you're used to the full-spectrum multimedia parade of Britannica.com, this encyclopedia is a bit of a shock. There's no splashy front page,...
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The NIH has launched ClinicalTrials.gov at http://clinicaltrials.gov/ . The site is a searchable directory of more than 4,000 federal and private medical studies. You can narrow your search to only those trials recruiting patients, or you can browse the trials...
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AltaVista announced yesterday the launch of a new Dutch AltaVista site ( http://www.altavista.nl/ -- didn't I announce that a couple of weeks ago?) And AltaVista France at http://www.altavista.fr/ . AltaVista claims that the AltaVista France site has a search index...
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Ancestry.com has announced the posting of the BGMI -- the Biology and Genealogy Master Index. The index contains over 550 million searchable records with biographies gathered from a variety of publications, including Who's Who in America , American Black Writers...
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Free site search engine FreeFind ( http://www.freefind.com ) has apparently launched a search engine at http://www.Findia.net/Ê. This is the most minimalist search interface I've ever seen. The most minimalist help file, too. Search results start with paid placements (along with...
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Search engine Google ( http://www.google.com ) announced new browser buttons yesterday. The Google Search button allows you to highlight any word on any Web page and click the button for a google search of that word. The Google Scout button...
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