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Google ( http://www.google.com/ ) has started offering machine translation of their search results. (Machine translation just means that the translation is done automatically, with a computer. Machine translation is nowhere near perfect, and should be relied on only to get...
Continue reading "Google Offers Translation, Adds New Interface Languages" » Theme From An Imaginary Library
When the wagons, leave the city, for the forests, and further on... oh, sorry, that's the theme from an imaginary WESTERN. Quite different from the Invisible Library ( http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/ ), a reference for books which exist only in books. You...
March 29, 2001AltaVista's Babel Fish Learns New Languages
AltaVista announced yesterday that their translation engine, available at http://babelfish.altavista.com, now supports Asian language characters and offers translation of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. (Both traditional and simplified Chinese are supported.) If you're thinking, "My browser doesn't support Asian language characters,...
Continue reading "AltaVista's Babel Fish Learns New Languages" » Infonautics to Merge With Tucows
Infonautics ( http://www.infonautics.com/ ), known to searchers for their Company Sleuth, Job Sleuth, and Entertainment Sleuth web sites, announced yesterday a merger with Tucows ( http://www.tucows.com/ ), best known (to me, anyway) for their excellent downloads of Internet software. The...
March 28, 2001New Browser Versions Available
Ah, the quest for the perfectly-compatible, never-crashing, bookmark-friendly, groovalicious browser continues (though Opera comes pretty darn close.) Microsoft has released a public preview of Internet Explorer 6. (I don't know what "Public Preview" is code for -- is this an...
West Virginia Offers Tourism Database
West Virginia has announced a database of tourism opportunities at http://www.callwva.com/travelplanner/ . The database contains over 8,000 listings of statewide tourism facilities, events, and activities. The search engine interface is a map of West Virginia divided into regions and a...
March 27, 2001Get Annual Reports from the Report Gallery
The Report Gallery ( http://www.reportgallery.com/ ) currently has a collection of over 2,200 reports. The reports cover "the majority" of Fortune 500 companies. There is a search mechanism, but it looks like the main way to get reports is browse...
Continue reading "Get Annual Reports from the Report Gallery " » An Agricultural Search Engine
Web-Agri ( http://www.web-agri.com/ ) is a search engine for agriculture pages. It currently indexes over 300,000 pages. Searching is pretty standard (there is a help page available) but unfortunately sometimes the results are less than helpful. For example, a search...
March 26, 2001Cleaning Up Around ResearchBuzz
We've spend the weekend cleaning up ResearchBuzz, getting rid of old pages, making sure all the pages have been redesigned, etc. If we broke anything, be sure to send some feedback and let us know. Thanks....
Huge Television Commercial Archive
Fulfill your pop culture jones at http://www.televisioncommercials.com/ . This site contains a database of over 30,000 TV commercials, findable in many different ways. ... though let me say that I couldn't get the keyword search to work. I tried it...
Reference Book Database
The Bloomsbury Research Centre (http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ARC/Arc_home.asp ) is a free online database of reference books (that Bloomsbury publishes) with over 17,000 entries. Resources include the Dictionary of English Literature, Biographical Quotations, Bloomsbury Thematic Quotations, and the Guide To Human Thought. Searching...
Syndicate Your Site Headlines With RSS
You've heard me talking about RSS and you want to get in on it, but you're uncomfortable about setting up and maintaining an RSS file. Now you can have a lovely RSS feed in five minutes. Just visit http://logicerror.com/blogifyYourPage ,...
March 22, 2001Google Launches PhoneBook
Google ( http://www.google.com ) now offers a phone number lookup via their search engine. Enter someone's name and state (abbreviation), and you'll get phone number listings if they're available. Before you get started, I noticed that this search does not...
March 21, 2001LOC Adds The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1900
The Library of Congress/American Memory has added The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1900 to their collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhcbhtml/ . This collection covers first-person narratives, early histories, and other information relating to the...
March 20, 2001Google News: Interface Translation, Voice Search, Bork Bork Bork
Google bits... Google's preference page includes "interface languages," allowing you to choose in which language you want to view the Google interface. New interface language options include Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Catalan, and "Bork Bork Bork.." that is to say, the Swedish...
Continue reading "Google News: Interface Translation, Voice Search, Bork Bork Bork" » Catholic College Admission Association Offers Database
The National Catholic College Admission Association has launched a site for information on Catholic colleges at http://www.catholiccollegesonline.org/ . The site features a searchable database of about 200 colleges. You can search for a school at http://www.catholiccollegesonline.org/search.html . (This page also...
Continue reading "Catholic College Admission Association Offers Database" » March 19, 2001Genealogy.com Updates 1900 Census Records With 14 New States
Genealogy.com has updated its 1900 census records by adding 14 states. They're now up to 24 states and 53 million names. They're still on track to release the entire census by June 2001. States now covered are: North Carolina, Maine,...
Continue reading "Genealogy.com Updates 1900 Census Records With 14 New States" » More RSS News Options: Radio Userland and AmphetaDesk
Why do I keep running my mouth about RSS? Because it's an easy way to get formatted, up-to-date headlines from lots of resources. Because it's easy for anyone to syndicate their headlines using RSS. And because now there are two...
Continue reading "More RSS News Options: Radio Userland and AmphetaDesk" » Patent Office Puts Applications Online
Last week, the patent office announced that they've published the first set of patent applications under the American Inventors Protection Act. 47 applications were published initially. New applications will be published every Thursday. They'll be ramping this up until about...
AltaVista Offers AltaVista New Zealand
AltaVista has launched AltaVista New Zealand at http://altavista.co.nz . The site indexes over 2.5 million New Zealand Web pages. This is a pretty interesting design. ...
March 15, 200118th Century Belfast Newsletter Index Available
The Belfast Newsletter is an Irish newsletter that began publication in Belfast in 1737. It was published three times a week during the 18th century. The surviving 18th century issues have been indexed and abstracted at http://www.ucs.usl.edu/bnl/ . Unfortunately, only...
Continue reading "18th Century Belfast Newsletter Index Available" » Google Adds Date Searching
Google has finally added date searching to their Usenet archives. (Doogle? Deja Goo? Google Vu?) From the advanced search page at http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search , you can choose from two dropdown menus at the bottom of the page. One will let you...
AltaVista Adds Some New News Searching
I have not seen the official announcement on this and so I'm not sure how complete this is, but there's a new type of news search at http://news.altavista.com . This appears to be searching for Moreover news only. This interface...
March 12, 2001USA TODAY Starts Census Coverage
USA Today has started coverage of the US Census at http://census.usatoday.com . The new section currently covers Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. The site has graphics, but they appeared to be packaged in...
Carole Leita Educates ResearchBuzz
After last week's ResearchBuzz came out, I got not-one-but-two e-mails from Carole Leita, maintainer of the most excellent and recommended Librarian's Index to the Internet: http://www.lii.org/ . She had a couple of responses to the newsletter. First, for government information...
Bartleby Updates Columbia Encyclopedia
Columbia Encyclopedia. The new encyclopedia (available at http://www.bartleby.com/65/ ) has faster full-text searching, an index of over 17,000 biographical entries, and what looks like more multimedia cross-referencing. ...
I See Dead Sites
Lately I've heard about at least a few sites which have been mentioned in ResearchBuzz in the last couple of years shutting down. Since these are more research/reference sites, they are not getting the coverage in the media that larger-known...
March 08, 2001Yahoo: Koogle Out As CEO, Earnings Warning
I didn't report on this last night because I was surprised that what on its face looked like rather mild news caused a stock halt. I mean, companies warn and lose executives all the time. Why halt the stock? Anyway,...
Continue reading "Yahoo: Koogle Out As CEO, Earnings Warning" » New Browser for Blind Web Users
CNET is reporting ( http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5044435.html ) about a new browser for blind Web users. The browser, from WeMedia, converts Web pages to text-only format and speaks them to the user. WeMedia is available at http://www.wemedia.com/ ; it appears to be...
Google Groups Watch -- Update Schedule
I heard from someone over at Google about the update plans for Google Groups. At this moment in time the update schedule looks like this: - Date search: going live in 1 week - Posting: available by the end of...
March 07, 2001Strange and Unusual Dictionaries
Fact City has started offering Thomson Financial information through its Fact City database. This information encompasses publicly-held companies. An easy place to access it is iWon at http://www.iwon.com/home/search/factcity_tutorial/0,14925,,00.html Fact City seems to have been working on the natural language interface...
Christian Science Monitor To Be Scanned and Put Online
Bell & Howell's Information and Learning unit and The Christian Science Monitor have announced their intention to scan all of the CSM's back issues -- all the way back to 1908 -- and put them online through the ProQuest online...
Continue reading "Christian Science Monitor To Be Scanned and Put Online" » AltaVista Makes Some Changes
Earlier this week AltaVista announced a search enhancement to their site. I got a chance to talk to Gannon Giguiere, AltaVista's Senior Director of Search Verticals, about these new changes. First off, the index is a lot bigger. Before the...
Alternative Press List Available
This is a short list, but on the other hand this information is sometimes hard to find. The Minneapolis Community & Technical College Library has put together a list of "alternative presses" along with links to those presses Web site....
Sun Buys InfraSearch
InfraSearch, which later redirected its site to GoneSilent ( http://www.gonesilent.com/ ) was acquired by Sun Microsystems yesterday, according to http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010306/sftu070.html . There is no notice of this on the GoneSilent site I can find, and unfortunately there's no indication of...
America Online Launches GovernmentGuide 2.0
America Online has launched "GovernmentGuide 2.0" (as opposed to the 1.0 version, which came out in 1999) at http://www.governmentguide.com Turn your cookies on and be prepared for some confusion. When you get to the site you're invited to enter a...
Continue reading "America Online Launches GovernmentGuide 2.0" » Scale This Piano Site
(Get it? Scale? Piano? Bahahaha-- uh, ahem. Anyway.) Piano World ( http://www.pianoworld.com/ ) has a variety of piano information for your piano jones. There are directories of piano tuners, teachers, dealers, movers, restorers, buyers, rentals, tuning schools, and performers and...
New York Post To Put 200 Years of Archives Online
The New York Post has teamed up with Cold North Wind to digitize and publish the archives of the New York Post on the Internet. The Post was founded in 1801 and is the oldest continuously-published daily paper in the...
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