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This is a little outside the scope of ResearchBuzz, but I get so many e-mails asking, "How do I find Internet research jobs?" that I'm going to go ahead and include it anyway. Free Pint, an online resources for Internet...
Amazon Offers Current Movie Information
Last week Amazon announced a service on their site which provides visitors with current movie information localized by zip code. To get to the site, go to http://www.amazon.com and click on the "In Theaters" link on the left side of...
Continue reading "Amazon Offers Current Movie Information" » May 22, 2001LOC Adds Two New Collections
The Library of Congress has added two new collections. There's the The North American Indian: Photographic Images. There's also Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920: Selections from the Collections of Duke University. The North American Indian collection is available...
EchoFactor Fades Away
Headline aggregator EchoFactor (http://www.echofactor.com) has discontinued its services. It was a lot like Moreover, except it focused more on individuals (celebrities, etc) than topics. A rep from Moreover told me, "All of the person-oriented feeds that EchoFactor had should be...
May 21, 2001Google Now Offers Posting In Google Groups
Google has begun offering posting options in its Google Groups (http://groups.google.com) site. All Usenet messages that are less than one month old will have the following message at the bottom: "Post a follow-up to this message." After registering, users can...
Continue reading "Google Now Offers Posting In Google Groups" » Yahoo Branching Out Popularity Pages in All Directions
Yahoo's most e-mailed news ( http://news.yahoo.com/h/mt/?u ) is a great daily stop if you're a news junkie. Yahoo has built up the most popular links to encompass several international Yahoos and even a few external sites. Now they've added the...
Continue reading "Yahoo Branching Out Popularity Pages in All Directions" » Scout Report Ends Subject-Specific Reports
The ever-groovy Scout Report (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/ sr/current) has announced that due to a lack of funding they are discontinuing the subject- specific Scout Reports. The last issue of "Scout Report for Social Sciences & Humanities" will be May 29, the last...
Continue reading "Scout Report Ends Subject-Specific Reports" » May 17, 2001Search Engine Site Provides Grouped Resources
QuickFindIt (http://www.quickfindit.com/) creates "channels" of search engines that allow you to search in different categories fairly quickly. Channels are limited, but they appear to be going for depth rather than width, and there's a handy reference channel. Here's how it...
Continue reading "Search Engine Site Provides Grouped Resources" » May 16, 2001Bell & Howell Adds Washington Post to Digitization Spree
or something. Anyway, B&H has announced that they're planning to digitize over 120 years' worth of The Washington Post -- all the way back to December 6, 1877. The archives, which will be released over the next two years...
Continue reading "Bell & Howell Adds Washington Post to Digitization Spree" » IntelliSeek Launches ProFusion.com
IntelliSeek announced yesterday the official launch of ProFusion.com (http://www.profusion.com/ ; it's been in public beta since February.) The new site has ditched the banner ads and now adds 1000 resources in over 200 search groups. I went and looked...
Beer Beer Beer Beer Beer Beer Etc.
As I think I've said before, I'm not a beer drinker. But one thing I have noticed is that gourmet beer drinkers are some of the most dedicated fans of their hobby out there, as evidenced by site Beer Mad...
May 15, 2001LOC Releases Irving Fine Collection
The LOC has announced the Irving Fine collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ifhtml/ . Irving Fine was a composer, conductor, writer, and academic who lived from 1914 to 1962. The collection contains over 4300 items, including printed music, sketchbooks, writings, personal and...
Opera Releases Version 5.0 for Linux
Opera has released version 5.0 of their browser software for Linux, they announced today. It's available now at http://www.opera.com/download /linux.html . You may download it for free and use an ad-supported version, or shell out $39 for a full version....
May 10, 2001Cheats Search Engine
Can't beat that game? Just can't find that pesky Wizard of Yendor? AllTheCheats ( http://www.allthecheats.com ) is a searchable subject index of game cheats. If you just want to browse, you can, by platform -- PC, Gameboy, Saturn, Super Nintendo,...
May 09, 2001Seek UFOs (and Other Stuff) at UFOSeek
From the name of UFOSeek ( http://www.ufoseek.com/ ), you'd expect it to be just about UFOs. But it's a searchable subject index about UFOs, a bevy of paranormal topics -- and even the Y2K problem. As you might expect from...
AskART for Artist Information
AskART ( http://www.askart.com/ ) is a database about American artists spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries. The front page has a two-box search engine allowing one to input the last name (or part of the last name) and the...
May 08, 2001BCL Computers Launches GoBCL.com
BCL Computers, Inc., has announced the launching of a PDF publishing site at http://www.GoBCL.com. After registering on GoBCL.com (registration isn't bad. Physical address is requested, but it's non-mandatory,) users can submit any Windows document smaller than 5 MB by following...
Mozilla 0.9 Now Available
Mozilla 0.9 is now available at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ . This new version includes a new help viewer and Personal Security Manager with improved performance....
AltaVista Adds NY Times to Its Search Service
AltaVista announced Monday that they've added content from the New York Times to its news search service at http://news.altavista.com. The press release describes the content as"headlines and abstracts," so I would guess searching this would be searching one step down...
Continue reading "AltaVista Adds NY Times to Its Search Service" » May 07, 2001Eggs Eggs Everywhere (Easter Egg Search Engine)
It's a couple weeks late for Easter, but I'll still pass on the Easter egg search engine at http://www.eggheaven2000.com/in dex.html. Easter eggs, if you've never heard the term, are special features or surprises hidden inside computer software. EggHeaven2000 contains a...
Continue reading "Eggs Eggs Everywhere (Easter Egg Search Engine)" » To A Whole Bunch of Lighthouses
... over 1300 of them, in fact, in this lighthouse database at http://www.lighthouseclothing.com/database/searchdatabase.cfm . You may search by keyword, category, state, or country. The results list provides the name of the lighthouse, contact information, and Web site if it's available....
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