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« September 2000 | Main | December 2000 » November 30, 2000More on Coca-Cola Collection at LOC
The Library of Congress officially announced yesterday (shortly after ResearchBuzz was updated) the donation from Coca-Cola to their archives. The donation, which will be given over a period of years, will encompass 20,000 ads and is the largest donation of...
November 29, 2000Yahoo Now Offers Encrypted E-Mail
CNET is reporting ( http://news.cnet.com /news/0-1005-200-3901784.html ) that Yahoo! Mail is now offering an encryption option. Check the article for more details on the new option and how it works. You can also read Yahoo's press release on the new...
FactMonster Launched
The Learning Network has launched FactMonster, a new reference engine for kids at http://www.factmonster.com . The service has a bright design and several cross-searchable resources, including an encyclopedia, almanac, and dictionary. The site also includes several sections, including a homework...
November 28, 2000Pandia Offers News Search Engine
Pandia has launched a new meta-search engine for news at at http://www.pandia.com/news/ . This site searches at least BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal and Moreover. I also see the Washington Post in the results. Basic Boolean seems...
AdFlip Offers Directory of Ads
AdFlip ( http://www.adflip.com/ ) is a cute database of old print ads from 1940 to the 1990's. (There's this crazy Spam ad at www.adflip.com/addetails .cfm?adid=2544 .) You can either search ads by keyword, or you can just view ads by...
November 22, 2000Gutenberg Bible Now Online
The BBC is reporting that the Gutenberg Bible -- two copies of it, in fact -- have been successfully digitized and are now online. These bibles are from the 15th century and not many of them are still left. The...
November 21, 2000Search Engine Clusters Results Into Folders
... and no, it's not Northern Light. Vivisimo ( http://www.vivisimo.com ) is a "clustering engine" (meta-search engine, actually) that acts in a very interesting way. It picks up results from your search and divides them into several folders. The results...
Continue reading "Search Engine Clusters Results Into Folders" » November 20, 2000Yahoo Now Charging For Business Listings
In February of '99, Yahoo! started charging an optional $199 for business owners who wanted expedited consideration for listings. That was optional. Now, however, it's been made permanent. Business owners who want business listings on Yahoo must pay $199 for...
Continue reading "Yahoo Now Charging For Business Listings" » November 16, 2000Britannica.com Cutting Staff, Developing New Resource
A story from CNET reports ( href="http://news.cn et.com/news/0-1005-200-3708457.html ) that Britannica.com is cutting its staff by 16 percent. The interesting part of this story, though, is the news that Britannica is developing a new resource, Britannicaschool.com . The site will...
Continue reading "Britannica.com Cutting Staff, Developing New Resource" » LOC Adds Site Dedicated to Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland's 100th birthday was November 14, so the Library of Congress rolled out the Aaron Copland Collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml / . The offline collection from which this online collection is derived includes over 400,000 items. However, this Web site...
Continue reading "LOC Adds Site Dedicated to Aaron Copland" » November 14, 2000Netscape Releases Netscape Version 6 Final
Netscape announced this morning (3:01AM Pacific!) the release of the final version of Netscape 6. While I'd love to download a browser that's more stable than NS 4.76 (though I admit NS 4.76 doesn't crash nearly as much as NS...
Continue reading "Netscape Releases Netscape Version 6 Final" » AltaVista Gets Piles O' Patents
AltaVista announced yesterday that with the recent award of four patents, they've gotten a total of 38 patents. Now, I don't get it. Maybe it's me. But considering the huge debates over patents in the Internet community (which one could...
November 13, 2000Fantastic Fiction Bibliographic Database Online
As a non-fiction book writer, I am in awe of fiction writers. I mean, I work from research and an outline, but fiction writers have to make stuff up! Out of their own heads! Wow! If you're into science fiction,...
Continue reading "Fantastic Fiction Bibliographic Database Online" » Business.com Offers Industry Profiles
Business.com has added a few upgrades to its business information site, including an industry profile center at http://www.business.com/ind ustry_profiles/ . The page is a list of industries (from Accounting & Auditing to Wireless) with a link to the industry's main...
November 09, 2000Presidential Inauguration Collection Now at LOC
Forget about the current election and revisit happier times when the status of president-elect wasn't so much as issue. The LOC has a new online collection of materials containing approximately four hundred items from each of sixty-two inaugurations (from George...
Continue reading "Presidential Inauguration Collection Now at LOC" » November 06, 2000Genealogy.com Releases 12 New Titles
Genealogy.com announced Thursday the release of 12 new titles for their online Internet Family Archives. This brings the collection up to over 24.5 million names in 35 different titles. Titles cost between $29.99 to $59.99. The new titles include: Ohio,...
November 02, 2000Ask Jeeves Gets Multimedia Search
Ask Jeeves ( http://www.ask.com ) has hooked up with StreamSearch to allow for multimedia searching at Ask Jeeves. StreamSearch claims a multimedia database of over 2 million streaming and downloadable audio and video files which will be available now at...
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