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After breathless anticipation by -- let's face it -- pretty much everybody on the Internet, Google has finally announced its IPO. For fun here are some resources with which you may follow along at home. I am still digesting the...
April 29, 2004Google and Yahoo Upgrade Image Searches
Both Google and Yahoo have announced that they've added news images to their image search. At Google Images ( http://images.google.com ) you'll see news images in gray at the top of the usual image search results. You'll get a thumbnail...
Continue reading "Google and Yahoo Upgrade Image Searches" » Database of Open Source Clip Art Launched
(Hat tip to GE for this pointer.) I'm not sure if this site has been official released yet; there's a limited amount of content with plenty of requests for more. At any rate there's a Open Clip Art Project either...
Continue reading "Database of Open Source Clip Art Launched" » April 28, 2004Weblog for Gmail Tips
A new Weblog for learning more about how to best use Gmail is available at http://gmailgems.blogspot.com/. Hat tip to SC. This entry will not appear in the newsletter....
About.com Relaunches Its Site
About.com has announced the relaunch of their site, which is still at http://www.about.com . If you're not familiar with About.com, it's like this: About.com is divided into several sections ( http://websearch.about.com/ , http://militaryhistory.about.com/ , http://travelwithkids.about.com/ , etc.) Each of these...
Lycos Getting Shopped Around -- News & Speculation
Do you remember when Lycos was All That? When they were doing tons upon tons of acquisitions, gathering up Wired and Hotbot and Angelfire, etc. Lycos was one of the search engines which went portal and never really went back,...
Continue reading "Lycos Getting Shopped Around -- News & Speculation" » April 27, 2004Hey! Huah! Book Recommendations! Good Gnod, Ya'll!
If you've run out of books to read and are down to deciding between an old JC Penny's catalog and a copy of LANDO SACKETT that you've read eighty billion times, you'll appreciate the humor and book-recommending wisdom that is...
Continue reading "Hey! Huah! Book Recommendations! Good Gnod, Ya'll!" » Australian Journals, We Love You, Amen!
The National Library of Australia offers Australian Journals OnLine, a database of over 2,000 magazines, journals, etc. with primarily Australian content. You can access it at http://www.nla.gov.au/ajol/ . The database is searchable by keyword (in title, subject, or both) and...
Continue reading "Australian Journals, We Love You, Amen!" » Admin: Today's ResearchBuzz
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April 26, 2004Electronics Recycling Programs Around the Country
I'm late for Earth Day; sorry about that. However the issue of how to recycle electronics is a year-round concern, so I'm pointing you at the Electronic Industries Alliance Consumer Education Initiative, a directory of places around the US where...
Continue reading "Electronics Recycling Programs Around the Country" » Library of Congress Updates Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Apparently it's LOC day here at ResearchBuzz. Who knew? Anyway, the LOC has announced that their Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, at http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html , now has almost 1 million images. New materials include 5,100 photographs from the National Child Labor...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Updates Prints and Photographs Online Catalog" » Library of Congress Releases Base Ball Guides
The Library of Congress, apparently feeling the baseball groove as we go through April, has announced the release of "Spalding Base Ball Guides 1889-1939." It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/spaldinghtml/ . This collection reproduces 35 of the Spalding Official Base Ball Guides...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Releases Base Ball Guides" » April 24, 2004They Won't Leave Your Head Evah -- Happy Songs Friday
In my 6+ years doing ResearchBuzz I've never had to have a surgical procedure as a direct result of reviewing a Web site. But that may change. After reviewing http://www.wohmart.com/tec/ , I'm afraid I need a Yards and Yards of...
Continue reading "They Won't Leave Your Head Evah -- Happy Songs Friday" » Database of Phishing Scams Available
Phishing scams are when you get e-mails from alleged legitimate institutions (banks, eBay, whatever) saying that your account has been compromised or you've been charged a zillion dollars or whatever. You then visit the site, which is actually fake, fill...
April 22, 2004Legacy Offers Collection of Obituary Sites
Genealogy buffs, sharpen your pencils. Legacy.com both hosts obituary sites for newspapers and offers of a free lookup of the last 30 days' of obituaries. What's available varies a lot as they are searching the sites they host, but there's...
Continue reading "Legacy Offers Collection of Obituary Sites" » Gleason Sackmann Updates Schools List
Gleason Sackmann, whom you may remember from his Net-Happenings mailing list, has updated his schools on the Internet list. The list has been available for years and at the moment is available from http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Schools/default.asp . The index includes both an...
April 21, 2004Google to Set Up R&D Center in Japan
From the Asia Times: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FD22Dh03.html: "Google Inc, the US provider of the world's leading Internet search engine service, plans to set up a research and development (R&D) center in Japan by June." That's interesting. This is Google's third international R&D...
Dates, On-This-Dates, and All Kindsa Stuff
You know that little Ziggyesque statement about there being three kinds of people: those who make it happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. Though I suspect I'm in the last category I still enjoyed...
Continue reading "Dates, On-This-Dates, and All Kindsa Stuff" » The RSS Roundup
It's time for another episode of the RSS roundup. Yee-haw! Let's start out with those institutions of higher learning. UCBerkeley has announced RSS feeds; get more details at http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/04/06_rss.shtml . The University of Arizona also has a feed available: http://uanews.opi.arizona.edu/rss/rssindex.html...
Baseball Links
I admit it; I'm a Cubbies fan. I like the commentators, I like the stadium, and I can watch the games on WGN. I'm not really big on baseball in general, but I did appreciate the offerings at Baseball Links...
April 20, 2004The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google
Interesting paper, available at http://informationr.net/ir/9-3/paper180.html. Here's the abstract: "The culture of lay indexing has been created by the aggregation strategy employed by Web search engines such as Google. Meaning is constructed in this culture by harvesting semantic content from Web...
Continue reading "The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google" » Ideas for an Open Search Engine Index
If you're interested in the idea of a community-built search engine, you may want to wander over and investigate the offerings at Open Index ( http://www.openindex.org/ ). This site is not a specific project for building an open search engine...
A New Source for Finding Forums Online
Online communities are still going strong. Though there's not too much there in a moment, Forum Zilla hopes to be a substantial online forum directory. Forum Zilla ( http://www.forumzilla.com/ )is very new. A search for music, one of the top...
April 19, 2004Xrefer Offers Free Xreferplus Access During National Library Week
xrefer has announced that they're offering free access tot heir xreferplus ready reference service during National Library Week (April 18-24.) This is access for libraries only; you can get more details at http://www.xrefer.com/news/index.jsp?m=2 . And just as a reminder, there...
Continue reading "Xrefer Offers Free Xreferplus Access During National Library Week" » A Database of Open Source Vulnerabilities
OSVDB stands for Open Source Vulnerability Database, and that's exactly what it is. You can find it at http://www.osvdb.org . The front page has the ten most recent stable entries (and a link to an RSS feed with the same...
Continue reading "A Database of Open Source Vulnerabilities" » Microsoft Opens Up Its Own Sandbox of Search Technology
All of a sudden there are all kinds of fun search experiments out there. Microsoft is opening its own with the MSN Sandbox, available at http://sandbox.msn.com . What's here varies a lot. There's a pointer to the MSN Newsbot, a...
Continue reading "Microsoft Opens Up Its Own Sandbox of Search Technology" » April 16, 2004Idaho Lands And Buildings for Sale
The state of Idaho has launched a Web site showing available commercial, industrial, and retail lands and buildings for sale in Idaho. Its use is free and it's available at http://jobservice.us/applications/comlab/lands/. From the front page you'll be able to search...
This Week in PR Bop
Did you wear your jammies to work today? Check out the Jerry Springer NASCAR? Wish a happy 50th anniversary to mechanized production Peeps? it just gets weirder and weirder at PR Bop -- http://www.prbop.com ....
MSN's Newsbot Gets Some New Features
MSN's Newsbot, which is in Beta in the UK, has some new features. You can check out the news search at http://uk.newsbot.msn.com/ . First thing you'll notice is that the layout is rather different from the Google News layout. It...
April 15, 2004RocketNews Relaunched Their News Search Engine
What is it with news search engines? Do they go in cycles? Early in the Internet we had some lovely news search engines, then a lot of them died off, then in mid-2001 we had another great resurgence, and then...
Continue reading "RocketNews Relaunched Their News Search Engine" » Amazon's Search Portal
Yeah, you read that right. Amazon's got a search portal (well, they've got a wholly-owned subsidiary that's a search portal.) Pardon me whilst I go get an aspirin. They're not running their own crawler; they've got a strange mishmash of...
April 14, 2004Death Index Listings Around the Country
(Apparently it's Grim Genealogy Day here at ResearchBuzz. Sorry about that.) If you're doing genealogy research here in the US you'll appreciate Joe Beine's Death Indexes at http://www.deathindexes.com/ . The site includes pointers to death indexes divided by US state....
Continue reading "Death Index Listings Around the Country" » Thomson Gale Offers Two Dozen Reference Databases for Free Next Week
Next week is National Library Week and Thomson Gale is ready to GET DOWN AND PARTY! Well, they're ready to get down and offer access to over two dozen reference databases for free. You can get more information at http://www.gale.com/nlw/...
Continue reading "Thomson Gale Offers Two Dozen Reference Databases for Free Next Week" » Veterans Affairs Puts Over Three Million Cemetery Records Online
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced yesterday that they've put a database of over three million veterans' cemetery records online. The records cover veterans and dependents buried in VA cemeteries (there are 120 of those) since the civil war. There...
Continue reading "Veterans Affairs Puts Over Three Million Cemetery Records Online" » April 13, 2004SurfWax Has a News Search Too
After all this talking about news search, the folks at SurfWax dropped me a note to let me know that they have a news search too. Theirs includes an interesting feature called LookAhead. SurfWax' news search is available at http://news.surfwax.com...
Visualize Hoovers Data With Anacubis
Anacubis.com, an information visualization company, has opened up a new demo which includes visualization of data provided by business site Hoovers. So fire up IE (this site won't work in Opera) and give it a whirl at http://www.anacubis.com/Partners/Services/hoovers.asp . (You'll...
April 12, 2004Sue LeBeau's Site Offers Educational Information
If you're looking for educational sites, especially K-12 sites, you'll enjoy Sue LeBeau's site at http://www.suelebeau.com . There aren't any annotations, unfortunately, and the search form has its own page, but there are some nice sources here. The front page...
Continue reading "Sue LeBeau's Site Offers Educational Information" » Google Teaming Up With Universities for Scholarly Papers Search
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education notes that Google is teaming up with MIT and over a dozen other institutions to create a searchable archive of scholarly papers. The article's at http://chronicle.com/free/2004/04/2004040901n.htm ; at the end you'll see...
Continue reading "Google Teaming Up With Universities for Scholarly Papers Search" » MozDex Open Search Engine In Beta
Last week was the beta launch of mozDex, described as "an Open search system built on open source technologies." The engine uses the Nutch open source search engine, and is seeded with URLs from the Open Directory Project. It is...
April 09, 2004A Collection of Google Logos
If you're all about the Google Logos, you'll love logoogle.com which has a collection of official and unofficial Google Logos. (There is a suggestive, though very blurred, logo on the front page which might make this page un-worksafe.) The site's...
April 08, 2004Ask Jeeves Searchin' For Famous People
Ask Jeeves is now offering Famous People Search, which includes some results for famous people with a photograph, brief biography, and pointers to more information. Strangely enough PG Wodehouse does not appear to be one of those famous people --...
New York Death Index Available, 1898-1911
The good folks at the Italian Genealogical Group have a searchable index to deaths in New York available at http://www.italiangen.org/NYCDeath.stm . There are three groups of data here; 1891 to 1894 Manhattan Only, 1895 to 1897 Manhattan and Brooklyn Only,...
Continue reading "New York Death Index Available, 1898-1911" » April 07, 2004RealPlayer 10 Released
RealNetworks announced today the launch of RealPlayer 10, which they say will play content in RealAudio, RealVideo, AAC, Windows Media, QuickTime MPEG-4 and MP3. This version is available for North America, Europe, and Japan; additional international versions will be launched...
Google FAQ
Some extremely enterprising individuals have created a FAQ based on questions that frequently appear in the google.public.support.general newsgroup. It's available at http://www.geocities.com/googlepubsupgenfaq/ . Information is divided into several categories, including Web search, toolbar, webmasters, etc. Some of the questions are...
April 06, 2004New Civil War Collection from Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has announced A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers. It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/ . Tilton C. Reynolds was a member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers,...
Continue reading "New Civil War Collection from Library of Congress" » New York Times offers Hirschfeld Collection
Yeah yeah, I know it's all about relaunching the theater section and there are archived reviews and news and all that but what I REALLY want you to know is that the New York Times has an online archive of...
Continue reading "New York Times offers Hirschfeld Collection" » April 05, 2004USA Today Has Database of Bestsellers
Now you don't have to wonder anymore exactly how much Harry Potter has dominated the best-seller charts. Now you can find out at USA Today's bestsellers database, available at http://asp.usatoday.com/life/books/booksdatabase/default.aspx . The data is limited; the database goes back only...
The RSS Roundup
Yee-haw, it's the RSS roundup. First up, Rolling Stone. Didja know they had RSS feeds? I didn't. Get 'em at http://www.rollingstone.com/ (look for the orange button.) Also, the Open Directory Project is going to start including RSS feeds on its...
Google Print Now Indexing Magazine Articles?
Kudos to Greg Notess, who pointed out that Google Print, that beta endeavor that's focused on indexing book content, is now indexing magazine articles. You can read his article at http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/newsarchive/000763.shtml . As he notes, magazine content is prefixed by...
Continue reading "Google Print Now Indexing Magazine Articles?" » April 04, 2004GMail Screenshots
In case you were wondering what it looks like, Fury.com has a couple GMail screenshots.. And what's up with Happy Birthday April?...
April 02, 2004This Week in PR Bop
There's a lot going on in PR Bop this week as we finally got into a boppin' groove. First, you'll have to hurry up if you want to wake up Monday to the dulcet tones of Robin Leach! Get on...
Hidden Landmarks, Weird Places in Meatspace
You know what meatspace is, right? It's where humans live. Hampton has launched a directory of the weird part of meatspace at the Hidden Landmarks Web site, http://www.hamptonlandmarks.com . Here you can search for hundreds of way out places in...
Continue reading "Hidden Landmarks, Weird Places in Meatspace" » April 01, 2004Gmail -- Amazing New Google Offering?
ResearchBuzz has the best readers in the world. Part of having the best readers in the world is that when a big announcement comes out, I hear about it immediately from lots of different people. But reader DR wins the...
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