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« March 2001 | Main | May 2001 » April 27, 2001Google EXPANDS THEIR ARCHIVES! Yay!
Good news Usenet nuts! Google announced today that the Usenet archives are back. You can now search back to May 1995. You can even search by date at http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search. "This archive contains more than 650 million messages," Google's David...
April 26, 2001En Garde! (Fencing Search Engine)
Even if you don't know the difference between a foil and an epee, http://www.fencing.net/search/has plenty of information if you're interested in fencing. This searchable subject index has almost 700 links relevant to fencing, including surprising categories (wheelchair fencing, software). Annotation...
The Film Box Office Database
The Film Box Office Database ( http://www.boxofficeguru.com/film.htm) won't win any beauty contests, but it is chock-full of box-office stats from over 2,000 films between 1989 and now. It's not up-to-the-minute (the front page says it was last updated in December)...
April 18, 2001More Hoo For You -- Stone Search Engine
StoneHoo ( http://www.learningstone.net/stonehoo/ ) is a searchable subject index devoted to stones -- sculpture, carving, architecture, etc. Categories include sculpture and carving, message boards, discussion areas, and discussion groups. Subcategories are minimal, but annotation is usually pretty good. And...
Continue reading "More Hoo For You -- Stone Search Engine" » Ellis Island Site Closes Off
If you've been trying to reach the new Ellis Island records site ( http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/ ) since yesterday, you've probably gotten a lot of "server too busy" messages, or "host not available" messages. Starting this morning you may have gotten the...
April 17, 2001ebrary Makes Agreement With Yale
Research/reference site ebrary ( http://www.ebrary.com/ ; it's not available yet) has announced an agreement with Yale University Press. Yale University Press will make its collections available through ebrary.com. ebrary's concept is interesting; users can browse and search its collection without...
April 16, 2001Student Free Speech Protest Archives Get a Home At UC-Berkeley
The San Francisco Gate is reporting ( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/13/MN12743.DTL ) that the archives of the 1964 Free Speech Movement are now being made available online through an initiative called the Free Speech Movement Digital Archives. The archives are available at http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/FSM/...
Continue reading "Student Free Speech Protest Archives Get a Home At UC-Berkeley" » 17 Million Ellis Island Records Hit the Web
The American Family History Center on Ellis Island is making the big leap onto the Internet. Tomorrow the site ( http://www.ellisislandrecords.org ) will make available immigration documents of the 17 million people who entered the US through Ellis Island. The...
Continue reading "17 Million Ellis Island Records Hit the Web" » AltaVista News
AltaVista is doing some cool stuff on their home page -- but in the UK, not here! Check out http://www.altavista.co.uk/ . Enter the query cats. You'll see that the search results have thumbnail pictures to their right. AltaVista is considering...
April 12, 2001Just Say Yo -- Yo (Yo-Yo Search Engine)
Do you yo-yo? Then yo over to this yo-yo search engine, YoHoo (http://www.justsayyo.com/yohoo/ ) This searchable subject index has over 900 links related to the gentle art of yo-yoing in a variety of categories, including events, tricks, and science....
Continue reading "Just Say Yo -- Yo (Yo-Yo Search Engine)" » April 11, 2001Open Source Directory Shows What's What
The OpenSource directory ( http://www.opensourcedirectory.org/) was designed as a resource to verify software packages as open-source distributions. There are a couple of different ways to search the directory. You can do a keyword search -- the query box is on...
Continue reading "Open Source Directory Shows What's What" » April 10, 2001Shakesearch (Shakespeare Search Engine)
Need to search Shakespeare? You'll have a few different options at http://www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare/. This search engine searches each line of Shakespeare's writing for the keywords you specify. The search interface looks standard, but you have to be careful how you...
Continue reading "Shakesearch (Shakespeare Search Engine)" » April 09, 2001I Went Back to Ohio, But My City Was Gone (So I Made a Film)
(Apologies to Chrissie Hynde.) There's new information available at the Ohio Department of Development's Ohio Film Commission site at http://www.ohiofilm.com. Wow, dig those green stripes. Anyway, there's now a database of resources for filming in Ohio. You may search by...
Continue reading "I Went Back to Ohio, But My City Was Gone (So I Made a Film)" » NEC Unveils ResearchIndex Library of Computer Science Articles
The NEC Research Institute has launched the ResearchIndex ( http://www.researchindex.org/), its free research library of 300,000+ computer science articles. The search box is straightforward with one exception: two words next to each other are treated as a phrase, even if...
Continue reading "NEC Unveils ResearchIndex Library of Computer Science Articles" » Business.com 2.0 Released
Business.com has announced Business.com 2.0. The new version offers personalization features for specialized areas of interest and enhanced search capabilities. Additional features include information pages on 64,000+ public, private and international companies and content from the Financial Times. Daily...
Google Slips Date for Group Features
It'll be a little later than expected for posting access through Google Groups (http://groups.google.com). Both that feature, and access to the full five years' worth of postings originally in the Deja archive, are now estimated to be available on May...
April 05, 2001They Blinded Me With Scirus
Elsevier Science has announced the launching of Scirus ( http://www.scirus.com), its scientific search engine. (I looked at the preview version on December 7 of last year -- http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/2000/dec7dec1300.html) Covering over 60 million pages, Scirus claims to locate more Web information...
April 03, 2001LOC Announces Slave Narratives Collection
The LOC has announced a new collection: "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938," now available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/ . The collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery, with 500 black-and-white photographs. The collection is...
Continue reading "LOC Announces Slave Narratives Collection" » April 02, 2001T-Shirts! Must Look At More T-Shirts!
n the fine tradition of Howard Besser's T-shirt database ( http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/2000/april27may3.html#yesthere ) I bring you GeekT.org, geek history through t-shirts ( http://geekt.org/ ). Lots and lots of geek t-shirts. This site is set up like a cross between Slashcode (Slashcode...
What's Wrong With Spot or Rover?
Lassie = lame? Morris just not going to cut it? Need some help in finding a name for your pet? Bow Wow Meow ( http://www.bowwow.com.au/ ) has a database of pet names that might get you pointed in the right...
Churches In New Jersey
Quick, how many 18th and 19th century churches do you think there are in New Jersey? Would you believe over 1000? And about half of them are included in the database at http://www.njchurchscape.com/ . At the moment, the churches...
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