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CampChannel ( http://campchannel.com/ ) has announced a redesign this week. The site, among other things, allows you to search for a camp in a variety of ways. The camp search is at http://campchannel.com/campers/ . You have three options: camp search,...
Continue reading "Pack Up, Go To Camp (Camp Search Engine)" » American Memory Adds More Collections
Those cool folks at American Memory have added a couple of new exhibits to their site. first one is "Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century." This exhibit shows 7,949 publicity brochures and promotional materials for over 4,500 events...
February 26, 2001Shut Up About Google Already!
I'm sorry. One more thing and I'll shut up about Google for a day. Maybe. Okay, first off, now you can browse groups off the front page at http://groups.google.com/ . The newsgroups are listed with small bars next to them...
If I, Could Save Timelines, In A Bottle
George Emery has put together a really interesting directory of timelines at http://www.canisius.edu/~eme ryg/time.html . Its directory style is very basic. On the left side of the screen there are five categories. Pick one and you'll be transported to an...
Continue reading "If I, Could Save Timelines, In A Bottle" » February 22, 2001Google Around the World
Sharp-eyed reader GS pointed out that http://www.google.co.uk is now live. This version of Google allows you to search only pages from the UK or the entire Web. There's also http://www.google.de -- Google Deutsch -- which allows you to search the...
February 21, 2001Google Groups Watch -- New Functionality
I was completely amazed at the response to Google's purchase of Deja -- a lot of folks are very angry that the search interface was as limited as it was at launch. I'm going to keep an eye on the...
Continue reading "Google Groups Watch -- New Functionality" » AltaVista Launches AltaVista Korea
AltaVista announced yesterday the launch of AltaVista Korea at http://kr.altavista.com/ . The site is in Korean. Unfortunately AltaVista's press release did not have an estimate of the number of pages in AltaVista Korea's index....
February 20, 2001Guide to Engineering Sights Covers Almost 250 Sites
The National Society of Professional Engineers has launched A Sightseer's Guide to Engineering at http://www.engineeringsights.org . This site contains almost 250 engineering "sights to see" like the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, and -- um -- the Original American...
Continue reading "Guide to Engineering Sights Covers Almost 250 Sites" » February 19, 2001Directory for Instructors of Social Psychology
Jon Mueller has put together a subject index for instructors of social psychology at http://jonathan.muell er.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/ . The site's sections include online lectures, topic resources (methods, the self, conformity, etc), and technology in teaching. Most of the links are briefly...
Continue reading "Directory for Instructors of Social Psychology" » February 16, 2001The New York Times Launches Oscars Section
The NY Times has launched a special section for coverage of the 2001 Oscars at http://www.nytim es.com/pages/movies/oscars/index.html . There are articles on the current nominees, forums for discussing the nominations, and a search engine for past winners (two drop boxes...
Continue reading "The New York Times Launches Oscars Section" » New News Spot
Those 'Spot people are at it again, this time creating HeadlineSpot at http://www.headlinespot.com/ . The site, like most 'Spots, is a concise guide to sources all over the Web. There are category listings for top news, science news, health news,...
February 15, 2001Go Go Proposals
If you're interested in government grants and proposal writing, check out http://proposalwriter.searchking .com/ . This directory provides information on grants and proposal writing! The site is set up as a searchable subject index, with directories like government grants, international development,...
More On Yahoo News
After I posted the information on finding news with a http://xx.news.yahoo.com format, reader BP looked around and sent me some feedback on their findings: "You may already be aware of this but the http://xx.news.yahoo.com or http://xx.dailynews.yahoo.com/ system isn't consistent. With...
February 13, 2001Radio Information for the Public Radio Fan
If you're a public radio fan, don't miss http://www.Publicradiofan.com/ . While the tiny font is a little hard on these old eyes, there's a lot of content here. You can get a listing of what's on now, or get listings...
Continue reading "Radio Information for the Public Radio Fan" » Yahoo Adds Most-Popular-Content in other Languages
Okay, who else is addicted to going over to http://dailynews.yahoo.com and checking out the most popular stories of the last six hours? Anybody else? Just me, huh? Oh, well. I still feel compelled to point out that Yahoo is making...
Continue reading "Yahoo Adds Most-Popular-Content in other Languages" » February 12, 2001Monday Morning Head Explosion: Google Buys Deja.com
Even though I speculated on this back in October ("Deja News Search Engine for Sale: News and Irresponsible Speculation,") I'm still stunned to hear that Google has purchased Deja.com, including, they say, the entire Usenet archive dating from 1995. A...
Continue reading "Monday Morning Head Explosion: Google Buys Deja.com" » February 08, 2001Free Library of Philadelphia Creates Online Centennial Exhibition
The Free Library of Philadelphia has created an online exhibit of over 1,200 photographs and other materials related to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 which took place in Philadelphia. The collection is available at http://libwww.library .phila.gov/CenCol/index.htm . In addition to...
Continue reading "Free Library of Philadelphia Creates Online Centennial Exhibition" » University of Michigan Library Adds 7,000 Volumes
The University of Michigan University Library has announced that it's added over 7,000 volumes to its Making of America Collection. Making of America is an online collection focusing on 19th century American publications. The majority of the materials they have...
Continue reading "University of Michigan Library Adds 7,000 Volumes" » Researchville.com -- Prefilled Search Engine Queries
It's sort of like a meta-search engine, but not. Researchville.com ( http://www.researchville.com ) gives you a box to enter a query, then lets you choose a search engine -- or several search engines. For example, say you wanted to search...
Continue reading "Researchville.com -- Prefilled Search Engine Queries" » February 06, 2001Beta of ProFusion Search Engine Launched
Intelliseek announced yesterday the launch of ProFusion, a "deep web" search engine. It's available at http://beta.profusion.com . You can do a regular meta-search from ProFusion, but you can also browse for "vertical search engines," and then search with them. For...
Continue reading "Beta of ProFusion Search Engine Launched" » February 05, 2001Woo Hoo! AltaVista Cut the Junk!
Go look at the new AltaVista Web site! ( href="http://www.altavista.com/">http://www.altavista.com/ ) It doesn't have button ads on the site! It doesn't have headline news from ABCNews.com (it does have breaking news, but it's not in its own box at the...
Genealogy.com Releases 1900 Census Subscription
Genealogy.com has released their 1900 census subscription. Their current census listing covers 31 milion names from ten states (the entire census is expected to be online by June.) The current states available are North Carolina, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio,...
Continue reading "Genealogy.com Releases 1900 Census Subscription" » Yahoo Launches Pay for Placement
Depressing. Argh. Wired is reporting ( http://www.wir ed.com/news/business/0,1367,41594,00.html ) that Yahoo is starting a sponsored sites program ( http://sponsoredsites.yahoo.com/ ). From the site: "The Sponsored Sites program allows commercial web sites already listed in the Yahoo! Directory to enhance their...
Genealogy.com Releases 1900 Census Subscription
Genealogy.com has released their 1900 census subscription. Their current census listing covers 31 milion names from ten states (the entire census is expected to be online by June.) The current states available are North Carolina, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio,...
Continue reading "Genealogy.com Releases 1900 Census Subscription" » Yahoo Launches Pay for Placement
Depressing. Argh. Wired is reporting ( http://www.wir ed.com/news/business/0,1367,41594,00.html ) that Yahoo is starting a sponsored sites program ( http://sponsoredsites.yahoo.com/ ). From the site: "The Sponsored Sites program allows commercial web sites already listed in the Yahoo! Directory to enhance their...
February 01, 2001You Gotta Beeelieve In A Philosophy Search Engine
(Possibly the stupidest headline ever.) EpistemeLinks.com ( http://www.epistemelinks.com/ ) is a database of links to all things philosophical, divided into categories including topics, papers, and images. The database does not appear to be searchable in the entirety, but the Webmaster...
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