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I've been using AltaVista's news search quite a bit -- http://news.altavista.com/ -- but I don't think I've mentioned some additional search options they've got available. I rectify that now. Now from the main news search page, you can tweak...
Continue reading "Additional Search Options on AltaVista News" » Legal Blog Roundup
I don't get to cover these over all LLRX anymore, so let me mention 'em here. Here are a few legal 'blogs you might want to know about: The Trademark Blog -- http://trademark.blog.us/blog/ -- Covers with extensive commentary various...
January 29, 2003Searchable Subject Index of Fonts
If you're a big letterhead, check out the directory of fonts at Fontscape ( http://www.fontscape.com/ ). This site contains hundreds and hundreds of fonts listed by categories. Categories include Mood, Period, Free, Pictures, and Symbols. There were some amazing...
January 28, 2003Break the Chain Looks at Online Chain Letters
The road to a full mailbox is paved with good intentions. And you'd be amazed (or possibly not) at how often those good intentions take the form of chain letters that are mistaken or just plain hoaxes. BreakTheChain.org (...
Continue reading "Break the Chain Looks at Online Chain Letters" » Reader Response -- Pictures of Microbes
"Pictures of Microbes/ Rising Up/ Pictures of Microbes/ Falling Down/ Pictures of Microbes/ Standing on their heads they're ready" -- not Peter Gabriel and Laurie Anderson Last week, reader GP asked for sites which contain photographs of microbes. Not as...
Continue reading "Reader Response -- Pictures of Microbes" » Teoma Upgrades Its Search Engine
Teoma ( http://www.teoma.com/ ), Ask Jeeves' full-text search service, announced last week several improvements to its search service. It's now "Teoma 2.0." Teoma's improvements include a web-based spell check, which pops up when you enter a word that's questionable....
Microbiology Information Portal
Speaking of microbiology (what? You weren't?) there's a whole portal full of microbiologistic goodness at http://www.microbes.info . It's set up in a three column format, with news in the middle, spotlight sides on the left, and pointers to links...
Super Bowl Ads at IFILM
Since my Super Bowl choices didn't make it, I watched the 'Bowl mostly for the commercials this year. If you missed 'em, IFILM has a site up for 'em at http://superbowl.ifilm.com/superbowl/ . I'm not sure that they're all here...
New Online Robert Burns Exhibit
Rockin' Sockin' Library of Scotland! They're at it again, this time with an online exhibit for poet Robert Burns. You can get it at http://www.nls.uk/burns/ . This site provides a narrative of Burns' life as well as information about...
January 22, 2003Reader Response -- UK Death Certificates
Somehow I thought you guys might come through on this one and boy, did you ever. In our last episode reader DF asked, "An associate of mine has a mother who is trying to find the death certificate of...
Continue reading "Reader Response -- UK Death Certificates" » AlltheWeb Updates Its Search Technology
AlltheWeb has introduced several little tweaks and twackas in its ongoing quest to make Google look over its shoulder. First of all, AlltheWeb now automatically determines the visitor's country of origin and presents page results in their local language...
Continue reading "AlltheWeb Updates Its Search Technology" » The Search Engine Dictionary
Can't calculate your EPV? Don't know your KFCP from a hole in the ground? Check out the Search Engine Dictionary at http://www.searchenginedictionary.com . It's an alphabetical listing of over 300 terms and definitions related to search engines, from About...
January 21, 2003Database of Herbs and Botanical Information
The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center sponsors a database of information about herbs, botanicals and other products, such as vitamins and other supplements, at http://www.mskcc.org/aboutherbs . Search by entering a keyword in the search box or click on the alphabetical...
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Here's a hint if you can't find your family in the 1930 census search: narrow down to the state where they were (and the county if you know it), pick the relative with the most unusual first name, and...
January 20, 2003Take A Little Trip With Google
Google's now offering a Google Tour! The Google Tour, at http://www.google.com/tour/services/index.html , gives visitors new to Google a way to check out Google's many offerings through a series of example searches (in this case, Tropical Vacations.) I wish they'd...
Hoover's Starts Charging for E-Mail Alerts
For a looong time I've been using Hoover's for their free e-mail news alerts. They were absolutely excellent -- I'd get a lot of wire and international news stories I couldn't otherwise find, and best of all it was...
Continue reading "Hoover's Starts Charging for E-Mail Alerts" » A Century of Lawmaking For A New Nation Updated
The Library of Congress has updated their collection, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation, at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/ . New materials at this collection include the twenty-five-volume Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-89) published by the Library of Congress,...
Continue reading "A Century of Lawmaking For A New Nation Updated" » January 16, 2003Ancestry Now Has Complete 1930 Census
Ancestry announced yesterday that they've made the entire 1930 census available on the Web site. Now Ancestry.com subscribers can search through 124 million names (and 2.9 million images.) Now, I was psyched about this and remain psyched. But my...
New York State Launches FDIS
The New York State Board of Elections has launched its Financial Disclosure Information System at http: //www.elections.state.ny.us/finance/fdismenu.htm . The database will include disclosure statements filed after July 1999. The State Board maintains documents before July 1999 in hard copy....
January 15, 2003Project Gathering Papers of Abraham Lincoln
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln ( http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org ) is a project seeking to identify, gather images of, and publish documents written either by or to Abraham Lincoln. The Web site doesn't have any published documents yet (and it's not...
Continue reading "Project Gathering Papers of Abraham Lincoln" » We've Got Movie Sign!
You might glance at CinemaSpot ( http://www.cinemaspot.com ) and think it's just a one-page reference source, but take a closer look and realize that there's a wealth of information coming from the index on the left side of the...
January 14, 2003Universities in the US
I haven't covered a higher education directory in a long time and this looks like a good one. US Universities ( http://www.usuniversities.com/ ) allows you to find colleges and universities in the United States by state or degree program...
January 13, 2003Asian Historical Architecture
At Asian Historical Architecture ( http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/ ) you'll find over 5,700 images of Asian architecture from over 400 places across Asia. You'll need Flash to use this map on this site. From the front page, click on any country....
Filippo Menczer Looks At Search Engine Results
Filippo Menczer, an assistant professor of Management Sciences at the University of Iowa, has been exploring how Web sites relate to each other. He analyzed a sample of 150,000 web pages, studying the relationships between text, links and meaning,...
Continue reading "Filippo Menczer Looks At Search Engine Results" » Reader Response -- Mold Litigation
Last week reader MF asked, "I am wondering if you have any good suggestions for keeping abreast of "mold" related claims and litigation across the country. What new suits are being filed, what suits are being decided or appealed???"...
January 07, 2003Net-Happenings Is Back! (Again!)
SACK-MANN! Nananananananana SACK-MANN! Yup, Gleason Sackmann is back with Net-Happenings, the mailing list that keeps you up to date with new resources around the Web. This time the mailing list has landed at http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html . Messages are posted weekdays...
US History Though Family Papers
Smith College has put up a new online collection, "Across the Generations: Exploring U.S. History through Family Papers," at http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/atg/introduction.htm . This site contains materials from four family collections (Bodman, Dunham, Garrison, and Hale) that are used to track four...
January 06, 2003The Search Engine Ultimate Interface
FaganFinder's got its Search Engine Ultimate Interface in beta, finally. You can check it out at http://www.faganfinder.com/engines.html but you'll have to use IE, I think -- I couldn't get it to work in Opera 6.x (maybe Mozilla?) Anyway, the...
January 01, 2003Google Googling an IPO?
Forbes magazine says in its Rich Karlgaard column of 1/6/2003 that "The search site Google is queued up for a first-quarter IPO off of surprisingly virile numbers--some $300 million in 2002 sales, $100 million in profit." (Read it yourself at...
Gary Price Figures Out AlltheWeb's Filetype Syntax
Big props to super librarian Gary Price for figuring out the special syntax for searching by file type on AlltheWeb. I had figured out it was filetype, but hadn't figured out what the document types were. He got them. You...
Continue reading "Gary Price Figures Out AlltheWeb's Filetype Syntax" » Missouri's Union Provost Marshal Papers, 1861-1866, Indexed Online
So what did a provost marshal do during the Civil War? According to the State of Missouri's Web site, "These provost marshals were assigned regardless of the level of active warfare within a state or district. In districts with active...
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