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A Canadian magazine search engine was recently launched at http://www.magomania.com/english/ . According to the press release, the site contains information about over 300 Canadian magazines, as well as an archive of freely-available articles. Articles can be keyword searched, and the...
Continue reading "Canadian Magazine Search Engine Launched" » Giant Genealogy Resource Debuts
OneGreatFamily ( http://www.onegreatfamily.com/ ) launched on Thursday. Currently it has about eight million names from 41 different companies, but claims it will become the "world's largest lineage linked database." You have two registration choices to use the site. The free...
Genealogy.com Releases Immigration Records
Genealogy.com has created a new subscription for its users, the International & Passenger Records Subscription. The records covered in this subscription are: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Notable British Families, 1600s-1900s -- Cites 149,000 records. Immigrants to the New...
Continue reading "Genealogy.com Releases Immigration Records" » Xrefer.com Gets Jazzy With It
Reference engine xrefer.com has added The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz to its search resources at http://www.xrefer.com/ . The new resource has over 4,500 articles covering composers, bands, arrangers, instruments, terms, styles, record labels, and more....
January 25, 2001Washington State Gets A History Place
HistoryLink ( http://www.historylink.org ) is an encyclopedia of information on Seattle and King County, Washington. Currently the site has over 2000 essays (searchable by keyword) pertaining to the region. There are several "galleries" that give slide-show like presentations on historical...
January 24, 2001Directory of Newsletters
Reader DC let me know about this directory of newsletters -- Newsletter Access at http://www.newsletteraccess.com/ . The site lists over 5,000 newsletters which can be searched by keyword or title or browsed by category. Newsletter listings contain information like frequency,...
Clinton Materials to be Archived
There is already a site established to archive former US President Bill Clinton's computer materials generated during his tenure in the White House. The site is at http://www.clinton.nara.gov/ . Obviously there's not a lot here right now, though there are...
Up In The Air, Junior Birdwoman
Speaking of specialized searchable subject indexes, the Women in Aviation Resource Center ( http://www.women-in-aviation.com/ ) is a Yahooesque index devoted to -- you guessed it -- women in aviation. Categories include books, featured women, museums, and organizations. Link annotation varies...
January 19, 2001Google's Change of Ad-ittude
(I know I said I wouldn't cover so much business stuff, but no one else has mentioned this that I know of.) You may have noticed the product of Google's AdWords program -- small text ads to the right of...
January 18, 2001Set 'Em Up, Knock 'Em Down (Bowling Search Engine)
I've covered other sports search engines in the past, so I'm pleased to cover one involved with the gentle art of bowling. The Bowling Zone ( http://www.bowlingzone.com/ ) is a searchable subject index with over 1150 links related to bowling....
Continue reading "Set 'Em Up, Knock 'Em Down (Bowling Search Engine)" » More Adventures in RSS Land
After I asked about it a couple of weeks ago, many readers sent me information on RSS/XML resources. Somebody, I think, sent me information on Headline Viewer. I got it confused with another resource and didn't look out it. Then...
January 17, 2001Yahoo! (Also) Get Mobile
(Kind of a Yahooesque day -- sorry) Yahoo has a (new?) subsection called Yahoo Mobile at http://mobile.yahoo.com/wireless /home . This site contains mobile phone, PDA, and pager links, along with mobile news. There are also resources to get Yahoo by...
Roller Coaster Database of Love (Say What?)
The Roller Coaster Database ( http://www.rcdb.com ) has information on over 650 coasters. The page stats off with information on a random coaster and a menu on the left side of the site. You can do a simple keyword search...
Continue reading "Roller Coaster Database of Love (Say What?)" » January 15, 2001Bitpipe Adds Wireless Materials to Its IT Search Engine
Bitpipe announced last week that it's added 60 new subjects and 650 new research documents to its wireless database. That brings their search engine up to 10,000 research documents on 1,500 subjects from 1,250 vendors and analyst groups. If you're...
Continue reading "Bitpipe Adds Wireless Materials to Its IT Search Engine" » Dred Scott Documents Put Online
The AP is reporting ( http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010115/tc/dred_scott_inte net_1.html ) that documents related to Dred Scott's challenge of Missouri slavery law have been put online at http://www.library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott . There are 170 pages of the documents available. The site has a chronology and...
January 11, 2001Riddle Me This, Batman! (Test Search Engine)
If you're one of those folks who is into constant self-analysis, this is the site for you. AllTheTests.com ( http://www.allthetests.com/ ) provides a directory of tests of the Web, including IQ tests, personality tests, career tests, etc. The site is...
Continue reading "Riddle Me This, Batman! (Test Search Engine)" » A Web Directory for Indigenous Peoples
Aboriginal Connections ( http://www.aboriginalconnections .com/ ) is a Yahooesque searchable subject index devoted to Aboriginal peoples around the world (though from the links I saw, the focus seems to be on the United States and Canada.) Categories include arts, law,...
January 10, 2001Atomz Offers Clients New Sherlock Plug-In
Search engine hosting service Atomz ( http://www.atomz.com ) is now offering a Sherlock plug-in for its customers. (Sherlock is a Macintosh searching tool.) Web wranglers who use the Atomz hosting service can visit http://www.ato mz.com/support/documentation/sherlock.htm to learn how to create...
Continue reading "Atomz Offers Clients New Sherlock Plug-In" » It's-Like-Nature-Man-Wow (Nature Search Engine)
NatureServe ( http://www.natureserve.org/index. htm ) is a search engine cataloging conservation information on over 50,000 plants, animals, and "ecological communities" in North America. You can search for either plants and animals or ecological communities. The plant and animal search allows...
Continue reading "It's-Like-Nature-Man-Wow (Nature Search Engine)" » January 09, 2001Australia Australia Australia Australia, We Love You! Amen!
(When in doubt, go with the Monty Python headline.) PictureAustralia ( http://www.pictureaustralia .org/index.html ) provides access to over 250,000 images from major Australia institutions. Institutions involved include the State Libraries of New South Wales, Tasmania & Victoria as well as...
Continue reading "Australia Australia Australia Australia, We Love You! Amen!" » January 08, 2001These Old Houses
Hey, neat! It's an attempt to list all the country houses every built in Britain or Ireland, standing or demolished. It's currently got over 6,000 listings and it's called the Database of Houses ( http://www.dicam illocompanion.com/Houses_database.html ). You can access...
Little Nemo In OperaLand
I have occasionally talked in these pages about my frustration with IE and Netscape, and my intention to get away from those browsers and migrate to either Opera or Mozilla. Last week I purchased Opera 5.0 and tried to make...
January 04, 2001The Eastern States Waterfall Guide
You may be saying to yourself, "Man, ResearchBuzz has had some offbeat entries lately." That's because I have a huge list of pending sites -- sites I see or hear about and drop into a text file to look at...
Nope, Nope, It's Been Cancelled...
The weather has been in the news a lot the last month or so. One of the side effects of piles of snow and freezing weather is how many things are cancelled -- school, work, church, etc. So of course...
January 03, 2001A Search Engine for Bookworms
Wow, what an engine. Allreaders ( http://www.allreaders.com ) allows you to search for book information through several different elements, including plot, main character, main adversary, plot elements, etc. The site divides the books into several genres (literature, sci-fi, romance, etc.)....
January 02, 2001Bee All That You Can Bee (Bee Search Engine)
Man, it's 2001 and I'm still writing cheesy headlines. Looking for information on bees? Try Beehoo! No kidding. Beehoo ( http://www.beehoo.com ) is available both in English and French, and lists a variety of categories relevant to bees, including bee...
Continue reading "Bee All That You Can Bee (Bee Search Engine)" » Search Engine for Intellectual Property Information
Intellectual property is a big deal nowadays, so it's not too surprising that there's now a search engine devoted to it. (Actually, it's more appropriately a gateway to search engines.) IPSearchEngine ( http://www.IPSearchEngine.com ) starts off with a several screen...
Continue reading "Search Engine for Intellectual Property Information" » January 01, 2001National Archeological Database Reports
The database of national archeological reports ( http://web.cast. uark.edu/other/nps/nadb/nadb.mul.html ) is a bibliographic inventory of about 240,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning. This one is thick and rather out of my league, so patience please. On the front page...
Continue reading "National Archeological Database Reports" » Food, Glorious Food ...
Whether you're a gourmet or a microwave jockey like me, it's not difficult to appreciate locally-grown food. Local Harvest ( "http://wwww.localharvest.org ) gives you a way to search for local farmers and farmer's markets by zip code. The front page...
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