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xrefer.com ( http://www.xrefer.com) last week announced the launch of a "reference engine" -- basically a meta-search of 19 reference titles, including Oxford Dictionary of Art Concise Medical Dictionary, Oxford University Press Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Penguin Dictionary of Psychology Penguin...
Continue reading "Reference Search Engine Gets to the Facts" » May 30, 2000WoYaa! Offers Information on African Web Pages
WoYaa! (http://www.woyaa.com/ ) is a resource for both the African continent and individual countries that make up the continent. You may search the site (top), browse categories (left side) or browse by country (right side). The French version of the...
Continue reading "WoYaa! Offers Information on African Web Pages" » May 29, 2000From Natural Language to Dialogue Search Engines
Subjex.com ( http://www.subjex.com/ ) is a new search engine in beta. You've heard of natural language engines like Ask Jeeves, which look up pages for you based on a question? Subjex.com looks up pages for you based on a dialogue...
Continue reading "From Natural Language to Dialogue Search Engines" » May 24, 2000WebBrain Offers New Interface to Open Directory
You know, 100 years from now when historians are analyzing all this Internet horse hockey, the Open Directory at dmoz.org will have a special place. And it won't be because it's comprised of volunteers. It won't be because it got...
Continue reading "WebBrain Offers New Interface to Open Directory" » May 18, 2000SurfWax Gets Busy With Real-Time Abstracts
After playing around with MetaEureka (mentioned earlier this week) over the weekend, I found myself quite liking the idea of using a search engine as a jump-off point, or even a "linger point," to obtain more information in real-time about...
Continue reading "SurfWax Gets Busy With Real-Time Abstracts" » May 16, 2000Google Keeps Sneaking In New Features
Google has implemented a couple cool things you might want to know about. First is a filtering system; learn more about it at http://www.google.com/safesearch_help.html. It appears from reading this page that this filter blocks only "pornography and explicit sexual content"...
Instantly Invoke Old Pages With Google Cache Syntax
Want to look at an old version of a page? Want to know the last time Google crawled a page? You can invoke a cache of a page in Google's database by using the cache syntax. Try this query: cache:www.yahoo.com/...
Continue reading "Instantly Invoke Old Pages With Google Cache Syntax" » May 15, 2000New Metasearch Engine Provides Cool Twist
Does the world need another metasearch engine? If it adds the groovy twist that METAEUREKA ( http://www.metaeureka.com/) provides, the answer is oh my my, oh heck yeah. METAEUREKA has a 'tude. They promise no graphics on their pages, no news,...
Continue reading "New Metasearch Engine Provides Cool Twist" » May 13, 2000Another Cemetery Finding Aid for You Genealogists
Genealogists out there might want to check out version six of the Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid at http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/ . Version five is the version that's searchable on the site; version six is so large it's only available by download. Version...
Continue reading "Another Cemetery Finding Aid for You Genealogists" » May 12, 2000Google Offers Tribute to Mom
Google has a mother's day tribune, complete with many pictures of Mom, at http://www.google.com/moms/index.html. Now see, this is one of the reasons I like Google -- because they have a personality, and a sense of playfulness, and they provide the...
More People Leaving Excite@Home
More folks are leaving Excite@Home; there's a story about it at www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/05/12/BU97621.DTL. I point this out because it's interesting that so many articles are saying, "Ooooh, AltaVista has lost its identity, AltaVista needs to get a focus." In my observation...
No, It's Not Just IE
After my cookie swipe warning yesterday, I got a couple of e-mails from readers saying, "It's not just IE, ya know. Netscape also has browser holes." I agree 100% and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I find that News.com...
May 11, 2000Bartleby Gets Shakin'
Bartleby ( http://www.bartleby.com) announced yesterday that they'd placed the 1350-page Oxford Shakespeare on their site. The searchable material, which you can find at http://www.bartleby.com/people/Shakespe.html, includes 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous documents. From this same page you can get to...
May 03, 2000AltaVista Launching a "Raging Search"?
CNET is reporting that AltaVista is getting ready to launch an advanced search portal. The underlying search technology would be the same, but the page wouldn't have banner ads, and would be more oriented to advanced users. As the story...
And Speaking of Google and AltaVista...
AltaVista, who I was going to rip on for putting the dmoz directory front and center on their site (not that there's anything wrong with the dmoz directory. Quite the contrary, I like it. However, why not reserve the front-and-center...
Continue reading "And Speaking of Google and AltaVista..." » May 01, 2000Google Launches WAP-Compatible Version Of Its Search Engine
Google ( http://www.google.com ) has launched a WAP-optimized version of its search engine for those using the Internet through wireless phones and handheld devices like Palm Pilots. Unlike other WAP search engines, Google's converts HTML pages to WML pages on...
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