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StateGuide ( http://www.stateguide.com/ ) an information guide to the United States, is not the most beautiful site I've ever seen. But it does contain a lot of information integrated from lots of different resources. From the front page, pick a...
Reader Request -- Monitoring Web Pages
Several weeks ago a reader contacted me asking what I recommended for monitoring Web pages and determining when they have new content. They preferred a standalone software program instead of a Web service like, say, SpyOnIt. I recommended my fave-rave...
Now Yahoo Getting Into Advice?
ZDNet is reporting ( http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-895038.html ) that Yahoo is going to start their own advice site in partnership with LiveAdvice on Monday night. Yahoo's free advice site, Yahoo Experts, will close at the end of next month, according to this...
April 25, 2002100 Years Of Popular Mechanics Covers
Take it from me, mechanical aptitude is not required to enjoy Popular Mechanics. It's one of my favorite airport magazines. The eye-catching covers of Popular Mechanics have been gathered into one gallery at http://popularmechanics.com/albums/index.phtml , with over 1200 magazine covers...
More Google API Fun
I've heard about some more Google API-inspired programs. These are live examples which give you the option to use your own key. If you have your own key I encourage you to use it; keys can only be used for...
April 24, 2002Reader Response -- Salt Water Aquariums
Thanks to those folks who suggested site for this week! Always great to see plenty of reader responses. Reader DD thought outside the HTML and suggested a PDF this week. The PDF is a 24-page manual on marine aquaria. You...
Continue reading "Reader Response -- Salt Water Aquariums" » Google Updates News Search
Google has updated their news search ( http://news.google.com ) slightly. First of all the search results page for news search allows you to sort by date or relevance (the link choices are on the far right.) If you choose sort...
April 23, 2002Surveys From the Financial Times
The Financial Times publishes about 240 surveys a year and makes them available on their site -- http://surveys.ft.com/ . These are more like overview surveys, and not surveys as in pages and pages of statistics and nothing else. In the...
Extended Article on Google Answers
As promised, there's an extended article on Google answers at http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020422-3.htm . Gary Price also has several answers on his blog (look under April 18): http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com/?/2002_04_01_resourceshelf_archive.html...
April 19, 2002Mozilla 1.0, Release Candidate One
Pop the sparkling apple cider and break out the Tofutti Cuties. Mozilla has released Release Candidate One (RC1) of Mozilla 1.0, a Web browser. You can download it at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ . Changes to this version include bug fixes, a new...
Google Offers Answers -- For A Price
Google has launched a beta version of Google Answers at https://answers.google.com/ . For between $4 and $50 (you set the price) you can ask a question and someone from Google's team of researchers will answer it. The research team is...
April 17, 2002Reader Request -- Salt Water Aquarium Care
Reader TT asks, "I was hoping to find some reputable & very informative sources of reference for salt water aquarium care - especially about corals, but any information would be appreciated." Please note the word "reputable!" Here's how you play....
Continue reading "Reader Request -- Salt Water Aquarium Care" » Syndic8 Launches Directory of News Headlines
Syndic8 ( http://www.syndic8.com/ ) has announced their directory of over 4500 syndicated news headline sources. These are those RSS sources I won't shut up about. I haven't talked about RSS in a while, so now's as good a time as...
Continue reading "Syndic8 Launches Directory of News Headlines" » Civil Liberties Docket Archive
The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley has launched The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Archives at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/meiklejohn/project.html"> . . This site includes legal briefs, transcripts, and motions in cases reported in the Civil Liberties Docket since 1955. The...
April 16, 2002Directory of Glossaries
Xlation has a directory of almost 1700 glossaries at http://www.xlation.com/glossaries/ . This simple page provides pulldown menus for choosing glossaries by either topic or language. Listings include the language of the glossary, glossary title, date last checked, and occasionally (but...
Louisiana Colleges and Universities Start Intellectual Property Site
Fifteen institutions across Louisiana have started The Louisiana IP Directory at http://louisianaip.org/ . This site contains a directory of intellectual property managers at institutions in Louisiana as well as a directory of patents held by Louisiana institutions. The patents can...
Continue reading "Louisiana Colleges and Universities Start Intellectual Property Site" » Google Revamps Their Stopwords
I know sometimes you lie awake at night and try to figure out Google's stopwords. You start with the, assuming it's a stopword, while your way to www and com, and eventually fall asleep trying to figure out if both...
April 15, 2002Google Accounts and Spell Check
Speaking of Google, in order to participate in this program you have to register for a Google Account. Oh ho ho, what is a Google Account? You can see it at http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z4AD51FA . It allows you to sign up for...
Google Creates API Program
Google's now offering an API program at http://www.google.com/apis/ . This program allows developers to query Google from within their own programs. This program is in beta and currently restricts a program to 1000 queries a day. These are the days...
April 13, 2002Directory of Genealogy-Related Forums
If you want to talk genealogy, refer to gentalk.org ( http://www.gentalk.org ). Actually that's just a front page for the actual site at http://www.geocities.com/gentalk777/ . Forums are listed in three categories: state/country, surname, and topics (cemeteries, societies, etc.) Pick a...
AlltheWeb Correction
On Wednesday I did a mini-shootout of AlltheWeb topics and noted that a search for "radiology" offered no topic suggestions. Well, as it turned out I managed to do the search at exactly the right time some work was being...
LLRX and SurfWax Team Up
LLRX and SurfWax have teamed up to offer a search engine for the Law-Lib discussion group, which has searchable messages back to 1992. You can access it at http://makeashorterlink.com/?D5B125EA . SurfWax, if you remember, offers "site snaps" -- quick summaries...
April 10, 2002AltaVista Launches AltaVista ParaPhrase, New Crawling Initiative
Seems like the new hot thing is providing suggestions to narrow a search. Teoma trumpeted that in its new launch and now AltaVista is touting their beta test of AltaVista Paraphrase. One percent of US-based visitors to AltaVista.com will get...
Continue reading "AltaVista Launches AltaVista ParaPhrase, New Crawling Initiative" » LookSmart Introduces Pay-Per-Click URL Inclusion Program
For the most part URL inclusion programs are fairly straightforward. You pay a fee, you get listed. In some cases, such as Yahoo's, the fee is yearly. But LookSmart is breaking new ground by introducing pay-per-click URL inclusion. There is...
Continue reading "LookSmart Introduces Pay-Per-Click URL Inclusion Program" » April 09, 2002Library of Congress Adds "Slaves and the Courts"
The Library of Congress has announced Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/ . This collection consists of about one hundred pamphlets and books documenting the experiences of African and African-American slaves in the United States and American colonies. Resources...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Adds "Slaves and the Courts"" » Open Forum for the Open Directory Project
Though it doesn't have the high profile of Yahoo or Google, the Open Directory Project ( http://www.dmoz.org ) is an important place to list your site, since it's integrated into many sites including Google. For those folks who have questions...
Continue reading "Open Forum for the Open Directory Project" » April 08, 2002Google Gettin' Sued By Overture
Google is getting sued by Overture. Overture says that Google is violating their patent with their new pay-per-click advertising model. A spokesperson for Google says: "This does not come as a surprise to us, since Overture is engaged in another...
Distributed Programming Takes On Translation
There are distributed programs dedicated to curing cancer, and there are other ones dedicated to indexing the 'Net. But one described by New Scientist ( http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992115 ) aims to harness distributed programs for translation. As the article describes it, the...
Continue reading "Distributed Programming Takes On Translation" » April 03, 2002ASFSA Launches Quantity- and Family-sized Recipe Database
The American School Food Service Association has launched a recipe database at http://www.asfsa.org/recipes2/ . Each recipe offers quantity-sized and family-sized versions. Recipes are searchable by keyword, while the advanced search offers additional search options such as ingredient, food type, theme...
Continue reading "ASFSA Launches Quantity- and Family-sized Recipe Database" » 1930 Census Begins Its Trek Online
Ancestry.com has begun the process of putting the 1930 census online. Already available is the census for Delaware; Ancestry.com estimates that the entire census -- all 2,667 rolls of microfilm -- will be digitized and available online within 90 days....
iTools for Ready Reference
If you liked Research-It! you might want to check out its replacement, iTools, at http://www.itools.com/ . iTools is a ready-reference site with several search forms. The front page has several general Web forms, including Web search, dictionary search, and encyclopedia....
Reader Request -- Quote Source
Reader CB is looking for some help with a quote: "I'm looking for the source of a quote: "When you come to a fork in the road, pick it up" Almost everything I've seen attributes this to Yogi Berra but...
Yahoo Indexing PDF Files
Yahoo has started adding PDF files to its index, though at the moment they seem mostly to be in the educational section. You can find them by searching for: u:pdf (the u: is a Yahoo special syntax that means, "search...
April 02, 2002Utah Maintains Cemeteries and Burials Database
The state of Utah has a cemeteries and burials information site at http://history.utah.gov/library/burials.html . This site contains separate databases for burials and cemeteries.For the burials search, you may search by name, date range of birth and burial, and city, county,...
Continue reading "Utah Maintains Cemeteries and Burials Database" » Directory of ESL Programs Now Available
If you're interested in English as a Second Language (ESL) programs in the United States or elsewhere, you might want to check out English.StudyAbroad.com ( http://www.english.studyabroad.com/ ). Their site offers a directory of over 1,700 ESL programs from over 1,550...
Continue reading "Directory of ESL Programs Now Available" » April 01, 2002Ohio Launches Online Scrapbook of History
Ohio Memory has been launched at http://www.ohiomemory.org/ . This site contains documents and other materials from over 100 academic centers, local historical groups, and libraries, and is administered by the Ohio Historical Society. There are two ways to view the...
Continue reading "Ohio Launches Online Scrapbook of History" » Google's April Fool -- PigeonRank
Ever wondered how Google's page ranking REALLY works? Google picks April 1st to explain it -- it's PigeonRank™! http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html . Google has done some cool April Fool's in the past, including MentalPlex ( http://www.google.com/mentalplex/ )....
MyFamily Creates Historical Newspaper Database
MyFamily.com announced last week the creation of The Ancestry Historical Newspaper collection. This collection currently consists of 150,000 pages from several different newspapers from 1851 through 1923; MyFamily is planning to add twenty thousand pages a week for an eventual...
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