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Remember yesterday when I said that Google hasn't added news in Spanish yet? Well, they have now. You can reach it at http://news.google.com/news/es/es/main.html . For those of you keeping score at home, Google News now offers news for Australia, Canada,...
Archive of Canadian Newspapers During WWII Released
The Canadian War Museum has released Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War. The site features more than 144,000 articles from the Hamilton Spectator and is available at http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/newspapers/index.html . You may search the site by keyword...
Continue reading "Archive of Canadian Newspapers During WWII Released" » Google Launches Google Spain and Google Toolbar in Spanish
Google ( http://www.google.com ) announced last week the launch of Google Spain ( http://www.google.es ) as well as the availability of the Google Toolbar 2.0 in Spanish. As you would expect, the Google Spain Interface is in Spanish. My attempt...
Continue reading "Google Launches Google Spain and Google Toolbar in Spanish" » September 29, 2003LOC Announces Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
The Library of Congress announced last week the resource of the Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/ . This collection contains over 10,000 items related to the Wright brothers and includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, drawings, and a collection of...
Continue reading "LOC Announces Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers" » September 27, 2003GooTop
Get search results only from the top of domains. Gets Google to act more like a searchable subject index and less like a full-text search engine....
Google Get Random
Another random page generator -- I love random page generators! This one uses Google....
September 26, 2003Google Does Poetry
Well, more specifically Google does weird poetry, with a little help from me....
Classical Music on Webcasts
Love classical music and want to get it off the Internet? No problem; visit http://classicalwebcast.com/ and you'll be on your way. This site lists dozens of sites all over the world which webcast classical music. From the front page you'll...
Official Movie Web Sites
Wondering where the official site for a movie is? Check out http://www.movietarget.com/ . This one-page list (I must be on a one-page site kick again) shows movie titles in alphabetical order (from A.I. to Zoolander). Official sites open in a...
September 25, 2003I'm Feeling REALLY Lucky!
Feeling so lucky you do TWO searches, instead of one....
One-Page List of Intellectual Property Resources
Yes, it's one of those one-page lists I'm so fond of. In this case it's intellectual property resources and it's available at http://www.ip-links.de/ . Compiled by European patent attorney Ralph Beier, this site lists its categories at the top. Categories...
Continue reading "One-Page List of Intellectual Property Resources" » NLS Expands their Maps of Scotland Collection
The Nat. Library of Scotland has expanded their online Maps of Scotland collection to include another 500 zoomable map images. The new maps cover the period 1776-1928. Materials in the maps include Scotland's first road atlas (from 1776) and the...
Continue reading "NLS Expands their Maps of Scotland Collection" » UK Central Government Archives Launched
The National Archives of the UK launched the UK Central Government Web Archive on September 24th. Currently the site preserves fifty government Web sites (though they're not all available, and you'll see in a moment) and is located at http://www.pro.gov.uk/webarchive/...
Continue reading "UK Central Government Archives Launched" » September 24, 2003GooLevel: Specifying the Depth of Google Results
Specify what level of site you want returned to you (One level down? Two levels? Three? Whatever!). AlltheWeb now offers this in its advanced search options so I thought it would be cool to get the same thing for Google....
Continue reading "GooLevel: Specifying the Depth of Google Results" » CSRwire Launches the CSR Directory
CSRwire has launched the CSR Directory, which it describes as "a directory of worldwide organizations working on all aspects of corporate social responsibility." The directory is available at http://csrwire.com/directory/ and contains information on about 700 organizations. From the search page...
Yahoo Adds New Shopping Engine
Yahoo has announced a new product search engine which has been integrated into Yahoo Shopping and which includes both items from Yahoo Shopping, direct feeds into the engines, and "merchants and products identified through advanced crawling capabilities." You don't have...
Open the Door For Your Golden Gate Mystery Date
How many mystery, detective, and crime fiction titles are either actually set in San Francisco and the Bay area, or have significant portions occur in the SF and Bay area? Randal Brandt has found over 950 and he's put them...
Continue reading "Open the Door For Your Golden Gate Mystery Date" » September 23, 2003Google Labs Offers Google Search By Location
Google Labs has just rolled out Google Search by Location at http://labs.google.com/location . As you might imagine, it allows you to search the Web based on location. The front page consists of two query boxes: a box for keywords and...
Continue reading "Google Labs Offers Google Search By Location" » Search Engine Fazzle Has Interesting Features
You can use Opera with metasearch engine Fazzle ( http://www.fazzle.com/ ) but personally I found it much prettier and easier to use on IE. So this is a review done on IE. So Fazzle. It's a meta-search engine. It searches...
Continue reading "Search Engine Fazzle Has Interesting Features" » September 22, 2003Link List for Internet Demographics
Marcus Zillman has started a link list for Internet demographics at http://www.internetdemographics.info/ . So all those of you e-mailing me asking about Internet demographic angels-and-pinheads, start here. This site features an alphabetical list of Internet demographic resources, unfortunately without any...
Feedster -- 30 Features in 30 Days
Let's peek back at Feedster ( http://www.feedster.com ). Yup, they're still rolling with their 30 features in 30 days. New features in the last week include: -- Spell check suggestions: Do a search for feeedster and the search result will...
Gateway to Appalachian Treasures
The Appalachian Treasures Gateway ( http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/library/appalachia/ ) is a subject index of sites providing information about Appalachia. The site contains information listed by topic area (including culture, images and stereotypes, history, and social environmnent) as well as information by type...
September 19, 2003Wells In Oklahoma
I know you guys sit around and wonder how you can look up wells in Oklahoma. Well, WONDER NO MORE! There's now a database of wells in Oklahoma available at http://www.owrb.state.ok.us/wd/search/search.php . You can search by a wide variety of...
Wotbot Changes Name to Wotbox
It's not Wotbot any more, it's Wotbox ( http://www.wotbox.com/ ). Wotbox, if you remember, is a smaller full-text engine (it searches six million pages) with a plain-vanilla search box on the front page. For more fun, visit the advanced search...
September 18, 2003Check Out These Crazy Fads
Yes, you knew about the pole sitting and the goldfish swallowing and the hula hoops, but did you know about stickball, pea shooters, and tetherball? Crazy Fads ( http://www.crazyfads.com/ ) will enlighten you (if that's the appropriate verb.) This site...
September 17, 2003Google Starting a Code Jam
Google's got a new programming contest going. Registration for the Google Code Jam ( http://www.google.com/codejam/ ) starts on October 1. Participants will be asked to solve coding problems within a certain time period. There will be two rounds. The top...
The Smithsonian Institution Launches SmithsonianEducation.org
The Smithsonian Institution announced this week the launch of SmithsonianEducation.org ( http://www.smithsonianeducation.org ). As you'll see on the front page, the site is divided into three sections: Educators, Students, and Families. The Educators section contains lesson plans in four categories...
Continue reading "The Smithsonian Institution Launches SmithsonianEducation.org" » September 16, 2003What's New on Feedster - 30 Features and 30 Days
Feedster ( ) keeps on rolling with the 30 features in 30 days. New features include: Search Explanations -- Look for the "Explain Search" link on the blue bar of the results page. Choose that after a search and you'll...
Continue reading "What's New on Feedster - 30 Features and 30 Days" » Belfast Telegraph Adds Digital Archive
The Belfast Telegraph launched a digital archive last week, a database of 180,000 articles from The Belfast Telegraph, Ireland's Saturday Night and Sunday Life. While the content on The Belfast Telegraph site remains free of charge, as do the last...
Oklahoma Offers SOONERACCESS
The state of Oklahoma is now offering SOONERACCESS at http://www.sos.state.ok.us/sooneraccess_news.htm . This site allows you to do a variety of business-oriented lookups. Some of them are free and some of them are paid services. Among the free services are searches...
September 15, 2003Picasso Collection and Timeline
The On-Line Picasso Project, at http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/ , has over 6800 cataloged works by Picasso, arranged into a timeline of sixteen categories (from "ORIGINS & YOUTH" to "LAST YEARS") The front page is a little confusing because the various names of...
Gale Offers Resources for National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 through October 15. Reference company Gale is offering free access to the Celebrating Hispanic Heritage site at http://www.gale.com/hispanicheritage . The materials include some activities, a collection of biographies (from Aguilera, Christina to Villa-Komaroff,...
Continue reading "Gale Offers Resources for National Hispanic Heritage Month" » Full Text Search of Math Books Now Available
A virtual collection of more than 2,000 volumes of mathematical material is now available at http://mathbooks.library.cornell.edu/ . (Wow, first home economics and now math. Go Cornell go!) This archive is fully searchable. From the home page you have the option...
Continue reading "Full Text Search of Math Books Now Available" » September 13, 2003Cookin' With Google
Cookin' With Google has a new home at http://www.researchbuzz.org/tools/cookin-with-google.shtml....
September 12, 2003GooFresh
Google offers a date-based syntax, but you can only access it via the advanced search, which limits your time options, or the daterange: syntax, which uses Julian dates and is a bit difficult to use. Goofresh is a way to...
September 10, 2003Moogle
In Google Hacks we take a couple of separate looks at how a regular Google search for can be customized to do specific types of searching. GooCookin', which searches for recipes, is a good example of this type of hack....
117 Years of Sporting News Archives To Go Online
The St. Louis Business Journal is reporting ( stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2003/09/08/daily33.html ) that Cold North Wind will be putting the archives of The Sporting News on its Web site. The archives will be available for a fee and will be accessible on...
Continue reading "117 Years of Sporting News Archives To Go Online" » New Collection of Wright Brothers Photographs Released
The Empire State Aerosciences Museum has released a new set of Wright Brothers photographs. This collection is now available at http://www.centennialofflight.gov/coffyn/ and consists of about 200 photographs. Photographs are organized by category, including Highlights, Aircraft, People, and Locations. (You can...
Continue reading "New Collection of Wright Brothers Photographs Released" » Anacubis Unveils Blended Google, Amazon Search
Anacubis has launched a visual application that blends content from Amazon and Google. It's available at http://www.anacubis.com/amazondemo ; you'll need to use IE and have Java for this to work. Once you've visited the site and launched the demo (which...
Continue reading "Anacubis Unveils Blended Google, Amazon Search" » September 09, 2003Cliche-Go-Round
We humans have a colorful language, but even we fall into cliches now and again. However, as they're used and passed around, cliches tend to mutate. Cliche-Go- Round is for entering a cliche and finding different iterations of that cliche...
Feedster Goes 30 Features in 30 Days
Feedster ( http://www.feedster.com ) has announced that they're going to be adding 30 new features in 30 days, both major and minor. The newest feature at this writing is searching Feedster via Instant Messenger. Send Feedster a IM (on AIM...
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Gets to Version 50
It's version 50! The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography has hit the big 5-0. It now covers over 1,950 articles, books, and other resources relevant to scholarly electronic publishing. It's available in HTML ( http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html ) and Acrobat ( http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf )...
Continue reading "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Gets to Version 50" » Google Tweaks Froogle
Google has announced some tweaks to their online product search engine Froogle ( http://froogle.google.com .) Even though the site's been upgraded, it's still in beta; keep that in mind. New features include a new sorting feature: sort by price. Results...
September 08, 2003Yellow (And Green and Red and Blue) Search
I love Google's phone book search, but sometimes it's a bit difficult to use. This interface is an attempt to make the "yellow page" search a little easier. This interface searches businesses only (not residences) and does not require an...
Continue reading "Yellow (And Green and Red and Blue) Search" » Overture's Got a Research Site, Too
Search engine Overture also has its own "Labs" site in Overture Research at http://research.overture.com/research.xml . This site contains information on three different Overture projects and a link to an external project. ("Welcome to the 'slaughterhouse'"? Eeek!) The first item is...
Registry on Artworks in American Museums Launched
The American Association of Museums has launched The Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal Project at http://www.nepip.org/ , which is described at "searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that were created before 1946, and changed hands in Continental Europe during...
Continue reading "Registry on Artworks in American Museums Launched" » State of Kentucky Adds Online Oral History Index
The state of Kentucky has added an index of its oral history holdings. It's available at http://205.204.246.206/oh/browse.aspx . The front page lists a variety of places with holdings, from Alice Lloyd College, McGaw Library to Western Kentucky University, University Archives,...
Continue reading "State of Kentucky Adds Online Oral History Index" » September 07, 2003Google News Advanced Option
Google's news search is lovely, but the fact that it didn't have an advanced search was driving me crazy. So I came up with one. Now Google does have an advanced search option but I still kinda like mine. Check...
September 06, 2003The Domain Census
Okay, what is the domain census? It searches for the percentage of pages in seven TLDs (biz, net, org, info, gov, com, and edu) which contain a given keyword. Why? I dunno why. I just thought of it after thinking...
September 05, 2003The Domain Purity Test
You've probably seen those "purity test" sites before, where they ask you a bunch of weird questions related to a certain topic and then tell you how "pure" you are about something. Well, Google has its own purity test and...
New RSS Feeds from NewsIsFree
Here are a few new news feeds from NewsIsFree. Remember, you can always get new feed information by visiting http://www.newsisfree.com/?page=4 . DVD Dungeon.com - DVD News Feed -- http://www.newsisfree.com/sources/info/8651/ -- No descriptions unfortunately, but plenty of news about the latest...
The Encyclopedia Of Monsters
It doesn't look like it's been updated in a while, but there's still plenty to see here. The Encyclopedia of Monsters ( http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/monsters.htm" ) offers information on a variety of mythical beasts, from Abatwa to Ziz. The front page of...
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Yahoo Adds an RSS Reader to My Yahoo
If you're registered with Yahoo you may want to use it to read some of your RSS feeds. Log in to your account and then visit http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/add_module?.module=xcontent . You'll be asked if you want to add the "blogs" module. Go...
You Thought A Three Billion Page Search Engine Was Big? Phooey.
The Internet Archive ( http://web.archive.org ) now has the ability to do keyword searches. The new feature, currently in beta, offers the ability to search a portion of the "Wayback" archive database (about eleven billion pages.) The search is available...
Continue reading "You Thought A Three Billion Page Search Engine Was Big? Phooey." » September 03, 2003Links for Songwriting Inspiration
If you need some help with your songwriting, check out the Muse's Muse Songwriting Resource at http://www.musesmuse.com/ . There are a variety of resources here, including a newsletter, featured reading resources, and a message board, but we're going to concentrate...
Whittlebit Search Engine
Whittlebit ( http://whittlebit.com/index.php ) is a search engine which as I understand it launched in July. It's odd, and yet somehow cool, to see a search engine with Google ads on the front page. Whittlebit is called such because you...
New Versions of Opera, Mozilla
Opera last week announced their latest beta version: Opera 7.20. You can read the press announcement at http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2003/08/28/. New features here include support for bidirectional languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.There are a variety of other changes, such as implementation...
September 02, 2003Seattle Times Offers Free Archives to 1990
The Seattle Times has expanded its free newspaper archives back to 1990. Using the archive does require registration, but searching and viewing stories is free. You'll need to register at the Seattle Times, which you can do at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/register/Register.pl ....
Continue reading "Seattle Times Offers Free Archives to 1990" » Fantosy Football Links
If you like fantosy football better than the real stuff that shows up on your TV every Sunday and Monday (and occasional Thursday) throughout the season, you'll like the links at http://www.ffllinks.com/ . This site contains over 20,000 fantosy football-related...
September 01, 2003Weather.com Adds Historical Weather Feature
Weather.com has added a new feature called Yesterday's Weather, to make it easier for visitors to find historical weather information for a given city. Yesterday's Weather isn't in a separate section; instead it's available in each page containing a local...
Continue reading "Weather.com Adds Historical Weather Feature" » Texas Puts Land Grant Database Online
The state of Texas has put its land grant database online. It's available at http://www.glo.state.tx.us/archives/landgrant.html . From this page you can search the database, Texas' map collection, or get more information on genealogy research from the state of Texas. The...
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