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« June 2000 | Main | August 2000 » July 31, 2000Yahoo Web Beacons: Annoying Privacy Breach Or Helpful Feature?
When I found this page, I made a comment out loud. Imagine an Andy Griffithesque southern accent while reading and you'll understand why I don't have a career in radio. "Lord, it's enough to make you pitch your pimentos, ain't...
Continue reading "Yahoo Web Beacons: Annoying Privacy Breach Or Helpful Feature?" » Google Adds Dictionary Definitions, Moves Result Count
Missed this one. If you do a search on a term for which Google has a definition, it'll provide a link to the definition at the top of the results page. For example, if you do a search for "sour...
Continue reading "Google Adds Dictionary Definitions, Moves Result Count" » July 26, 2000Meanwhile, Back at the Google Ranch (Advanced Search Interface)
Meanwhile, Google ( http://www.google.com ) refuses to stand still. Their home page is getting even more minimalist, with a logo in the center of the page and the "About Google" and "Jobs @ Google" graphic buttons disappearing. Google's also offering...
Continue reading "Meanwhile, Back at the Google Ranch (Advanced Search Interface)" » July 25, 2000Yahoo Covers the Presidential Conventions
Yahoo will be covering the Republican and Democratic conventions at http://politics.yahoo.com/ from July 31-August 3 (Republican convention) and August 13-17 (Democratic convention). Yahoo's press release says they will offer "live reports from the field, unlimited access to related information and...
Continue reading "Yahoo Covers the Presidential Conventions" » InfoGrid Claims an "Indexed Map of the Internet"
An interesting change from the regular Yahooesque index is the new InfoGrid from R. Lee Heath ( http://www.infogrid.com ). The grid provides a single page of top-level links, with the top-level links leading to single-page coverage of a single topic....
Continue reading "InfoGrid Claims an "Indexed Map of the Internet"" » July 17, 2000Additional Yahoo Special Data Sets
Research maestro GP contributed these additional data sets that work with Yahoo's new search tech. Remember, don't use quotes with these searches. TV Shows -- Looks like American shows only. ER worked, EastEnders didn't. On the other hand, EastEnders DID...
July 13, 2000Yahoo Announces Improvements
Yahoo has announced some enhancements to their search engine. Besides the integration of Google results (which we already knew about) Yahoo's announcements include a most popular sites feature (most popular sites are listed first, after that the "cool sites" as...
July 12, 2000The Google/Yahoo Mystery: Partially Cleared
Readers have been sending in a variety of conjecture about the Yahoo/Google mystery -- why a Yahoo/Google search provides fewer results than a search straight from Google.com. Some users asserted that Google provides indexes of different sizes. Some users pointed...
Continue reading "The Google/Yahoo Mystery: Partially Cleared" » Pandia Creates Radio/TV Search Engine
Pandia has an online radio/tv station directory at http://www.pandia.com/radio/. It's a little hard to understand the page layout at first, but there's a lot of useful information here. On the left side of the page is a frame that gives...
Embedded Linux Site Directory Available at SiliconPenguin.com
Fear the penguin. Linux is moving from desktops to all manner of other devices and embedded Linux is getting just a teeny bit warm. SiliconPenguin.com (http://www.siliconpenguin.com/) contains over 350 links to information on embedded Linux, with categories including projects, publications,...
Continue reading "Embedded Linux Site Directory Available at SiliconPenguin.com" » July 11, 2000Newsflash: The Web is REALLY BIG!
Internet company Cyveillance has released a study, "Sizing the Internet" that puts the current size of the Web at 2.1 billion "unique, publicly available pages." The study further estimated that the Web was growing at more than seven million pages...
July 07, 2000Two City Search Engines
Looking for city-specific subject directories? Latimes.com has launched a new city guide for Los Angeles on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. The site, located at http://www.calendarlive.com/visit ors , is visitor-oriented, containing links for shopping, entertainment, lodging, etc. It...
July 06, 2000Real Big Newspaper Database Coming Down the Pipe?
PaperofRecord.com, according to the article I read ( www.southam.com/montrealgazette/newsnow/cpfs/technology/000629/z 062919.html ), has acquired microfilm rights to more than 11,000 newspapers dating to the 1700s. They want to make the papers both searchable and viewable in their original format. Yow! I'm...
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