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Gary Price of Resourceshelf has an interview with Dr. Gary Flake of the Yahoo Research Labs. Read part I of the interview at http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3372051....
My Summer Camps
It's just about July, and you might still be thinking about summer camps. If you are, head over to My Summer Camps ( http://www.mysummercamps.com/ ), a searchable subject index of camps for kids and teens. Subjects include Day Camps, Traditional...
Virginia Tech Imagebase Offers Images In A Variety of Categories
When you first visit the Virginia Tech Imagebase you'll be struck by the number of categories of images available. You'll be able to browse image collections from Agriculture to Virginia Tech University Relations Slide Collection . Most of the collections...
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Jeremy notes new RSS feeds for kids including Ask Earl and the SAT Tip of the Day. Thanks Jeremy....
June 29, 2004FeedDirect -- A Headline Gatherer for Your Site
Looking for a mechanism by which you can add headlines to your Web site? You might want to try FeedDirect, at http://www.feeddirect.com/. It has a wizard that generates JavaScript code that you can use to put news on your site....
Continue reading "FeedDirect -- A Headline Gatherer for Your Site" » Naropa University Teams Up With Internet Archive
Naropa University has teamed up with the Internet Archive to provide online access to its collection of audio recordings. The recordings represent 30 years of classes, lectures, and other presentations by literary figures who have participated in Naropa University writing...
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The state of Arkansas is making its entire inmate database (" Arkansas Department of Corrections Inmate Database") available for download. A fee is charged. The database is updated each Monday. http://www.arkansas.gov/doc/inmate_info/data_download.html....
Continue reading "Arkansas Make Entire Prisoner Database Available for Download" » June 28, 2004BBC Launches their Motion Gallery
The BBC has launched the BBC Motion Gallery, with over 10,000 video clips, and I am stoked. Now if I can just keep out of the timesink long enough to write the review... You can see the Gallery at http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/customer/index.jsp...
Google Offering a Little Different On Their Cache -- Cached Text Only
Big ol' props to Patrick at SEO DotComicide ( www.dotcomicide.com ) for pointing me to this. Google is now offering two forms of cached items: a full cache, and cached text only. You won't see this offering on the regular...
Continue reading "Google Offering a Little Different On Their Cache -- Cached Text Only" » June 27, 2004Hey, Cookin' With Google is in TIME Magazine!
Freaky! http://www.time.com/time/techtime/200406/tools.html. Judy, what have you wrought? :->...
Continue reading "Hey, Cookin' With Google is in TIME Magazine!" » June 25, 2004Have a Quiet Drink and Watch Some Soccer
I knew there were bars and restaurants devoted to all kinds of different cuisines and themes. I had no idea there was a list of places where you can go, maybe have some cheese sticks, and watch soccer. It's called...
Continue reading "Have a Quiet Drink and Watch Some Soccer" » Directory of Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields
Old Airfields never die, they just cultivate lots and lots of crabgrass. And amazingly there are over 1100 of them all over the US gathered into the Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields site by Paul Freeman ( http://www.airfields-freeman.com/ ) From the...
Continue reading "Directory of Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields" » June 24, 2004SearchFight
Remember GoogleFight? SearchFight is like that only you can try your fight across multiple search engines. This is a good way to get a sense about the size of different search engines too. Why does potatoes always beat stuffing?...
Sweet Google Results Scraper in a Bitty Bookmarklet
David Crossman has made a sweet little Google hack for all you folks who want comma-delimited Google search results. And it's in a bookmarklet! It's available at http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/1079 . Run a Google search, then click the bookmarklet. You'll get a...
Continue reading "Sweet Google Results Scraper in a Bitty Bookmarklet" » Ask Jeeves Joins Gigabyte-Plus Hit Parade, Ends Site Submit
Ask Jeeves has announced that they've upped the mail storage on the email of their three portal brands -- My Way, Excite, and iWon -- and that Excite Gold Users will get 2 gigabytes of storage. This will begin...
Continue reading "Ask Jeeves Joins Gigabyte-Plus Hit Parade, Ends Site Submit" » LII Releases Olympics Games Resource
The Librarians' Index to the Internet has a new resource collection devoted to the Olympics. It's available at http://lii.org/search/file/olympics . This collection features a variety of Olympics information, including current and historical, athletes and sports, and information about Athens. There's...
June 23, 2004Online Archive of Ivory Soap Advertisements
No radio, soap! The National Museum of American History now has an online archive of 1,600 advertisements and related ephemera covering Ivory Soap advertising from 1838-1998. This collection includes advertising, soap wrappers, coupons, etc. It's available at http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives/ivory/ . There's...
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Like to run but looking for a reason? Marathon Guide provides information on state and international marathons, as well as news and articles. It's available at http://www.marathonguide.com . For the guide, look on the left under marathon directory. You can...
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When I first saw this directory of independent record stores, I thought "Cool!" Then I saw down at the bottom of the page that it was "© 2004 Sony Music Entertainment Inc." and thought, "H'm?" But it's still a handy...
Continue reading "Directory of Independent Record Stores Searchable by State" » June 22, 2004A Search Engine for Racing Information and Results
A plain query box gives you the ability to search information on 12,000 races, 12,000 records, 30,000 drivers, and fifty championships. The site is called CEEM@il and it's available at http://www.cee-mail.com/ . Sources have their own page of listings and...
Continue reading "A Search Engine for Racing Information and Results" » A News Search Engine That Breaks Out By Source Type
I'm not sure how new it is, and I get the sense that the source list is a bit limited, but NewsLookup is interesting in that you can break out your results by source type (Magazine, Radio, Newspapers, Internet) and...
Continue reading "A News Search Engine That Breaks Out By Source Type" » June 21, 2004Arts and Cultural Happenings In Connecticut
There's a new database of arts and culture happenings in Connecticut, available at http://events.publicbroadcasting.net/wnpr/events.eventsmain. Events are searchable by keyword as well as date and radius of area code. The front page lists events in several categories, including live classical music,...
Continue reading "Arts and Cultural Happenings In Connecticut" » Database Provides Information on 3,000 Restaurant Chains
Speaking of really specialized databases. If you're looking for information on restaurant chains you might want to try RestaurantChains.net ( http://www.restaurantchains.net ), a pay-for-use database of over 3,000 restaurant chains ... .. or so I'm told. My search was restricted...
Continue reading "Database Provides Information on 3,000 Restaurant Chains" » Ask Jeeves Unveils New Features, "Binoculars"
Ask Jeeves has unveiled both a raft of new shortcuts and a new site preview feature called Binoculars. You've probably been noticing that many search engines are offering searching shortcuts (called "Smart Search" by Ask Jeeves.) This feature allows you...
Continue reading "Ask Jeeves Unveils New Features, "Binoculars"" » June 20, 2004Google's GMail Now has Its Own DMOZ Category
GMail now has its own DMOZ category, for all you GMailaholics. It's available at http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/E-mail/Free/Web-Based/G/Gmail/. There are eight links here at the moment, including "Mbox & Maildir to Gmail Loader (GML)," which allows you to import existing Mbox and Maildir...
Continue reading "Google's GMail Now has Its Own DMOZ Category" » June 17, 2004Google Cooking Up Customized Search In th' Labs
Google is offering a new feature in its labs:the "Site-Flavored Google Search Box." The direct link for it is http://www.google.com/services/siteflavored.html . You'll need to use Mozilla, IE, or Netscape for this -- Google doesn't seem to do much for Opera....
Continue reading "Google Cooking Up Customized Search In th' Labs" » State of Missouri Puts Inquest Database Online
The state of Missouri has announced that the Coroner's Inquest Database is now available. This database covers the records of Andrew, Cape Girardeau, Clinton, Perry, St. Francois, and Stoddard counties, dating from 1842 to 1932. There are also nineteenth century...
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http://www.googlegmails.com/ contains several forums devoted to GMail and a few more general discussions....
Another Option for Gmail to POP3
There's eMail2Pop at http://www.email2pop.com./, which was apparently originally developed for AOL but now works for AOL and Gmail. I haven't tried it. This entry will not appear in the newsletter....
More Google Domain Name Regs
Gary Price continues to monitor domain name registrations that contain the word Google. And now there are some appearing that contain the word Yahoo. Can GigablastFight be far behind? http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/google_names_3.html. This entry will not appear in the newsletter....
June 16, 2004Recovering Your Weblogs.com Site Using Google -- A Couple Extra Suggestions
Actually these will work when you need to recover old sites which have been indexed in Google, if your host has died or some horror befell your data, etc. Building on Glenn's Suggestions: 1) Don't try to use a keyword....
Continue reading "Recovering Your Weblogs.com Site Using Google -- A Couple Extra Suggestions" » Gerry McKiernan Now Cataloging RSS Feeds from Electronic Journals
Gerry McKiernan continues to add some cool cars to the RSS train with his new registry, eFeeds. eFeeds catalogs electronic journals that offer RSS, Atom, or other Web feeds. Categories currently on the site include Physics, General, and Social Sciences....
Continue reading "Gerry McKiernan Now Cataloging RSS Feeds from Electronic Journals" » Find Upcoming Public Radio Programs with RadioScout
Find upcoming public radio shows by keyword with RadioScout, a nifty site available at http://www.radioscout.org/servlet/RadioScout.MainPage . Here you may search by program (or search all programs), specified timespans (this week/month, last week/month, etc.) and sort by program name or date....
Continue reading "Find Upcoming Public Radio Programs with RadioScout" » June 15, 2004Quickbrowse Relaunches: Cheaper, Simpler
If you have a site you really want to keep up with on a regular basis, but it doesn't have an RSS feed or some other way to send out its content, you may want to try Quickbrowse ( http://www.quickbrowse.com...
Continue reading "Quickbrowse Relaunches: Cheaper, Simpler" » Finding Offline Auctions
Yeah yeah, there's eBay for online auctions, but if you want offline auctions there are other places to go. Like AuctionZip, which lists over 1200 auctions all over the US, searchable by zip code/radius. It's available at http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/introduction.pl. The front...
June 14, 2004Tekrati Offers High Tech Industry Analyst Aggregation Site
That's aggregation, not aggravation. What do you think this is, 1999 or something? Anyway, Tekrati is now offering the Industry Analyst Report, which contains news and reports from over 325 technology analyst research firms worldwide. And hey, there's an RSS...
Continue reading "Tekrati Offers High Tech Industry Analyst Aggregation Site" » Vivisimo Gets Clustery With Slashdot, Open Source
A bucket of props to his Internetness Gary Price ( http://www.resourceshelf.com ) for pointing to new clustering options at meta-search engine Vivisimo ( http://www.vivisimo.com ); there's an option now to cluster results from Slashdot ( http://vivisimo.com/slashdot ) as well as...
Continue reading "Vivisimo Gets Clustery With Slashdot, Open Source" » SortByDate Helps Track Keywords in Weblogs and News Sites
If my mail is any indication, the hot topic nowadays is how to use the power of RSS feeds to track specific topics instead of having to track specific blogs. SortByDate ( http://www.sortbydate.com) is sort of a pointer-engine; it gives...
Continue reading "SortByDate Helps Track Keywords in Weblogs and News Sites" » June 11, 2004Mercedes In the Movies
Like cars? Great. Like Mercedes? Even better, because you're going to love Mercedes in the Movies, which features almost 450 reviews of movies which contain Mercedes. It's at http://www.hampstead.com.au/mb/index.php . The front page has the 30 most popular and the...
Implosion World
It's a world of implosions at Implosion World! And not just any old implosions: the vast majority of these are sanctioned, professionally-done implosions, like of old ballparks and stuff. Though I'm not sure how much it's going to help at...
June 10, 2004Dietary Supplements Search Tool from Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic has added a search tool of 86 herbs, vitamins, and other supplements to its Web site. It's available at http://www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/druginformation/index.cfm , in the second search box. You may search by keyword or browse the list alphabetically. I looked...
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The state of Tennessee has a Web site for finding help with state services. It's called TennHelp and it's available at http://www.tennhelp.com/ . You can either search by agency name or start your jaunt through a help wizard. The wizard...
Interview with Google's Matt Cutts
BBC interview with Google's Matt Cutts. [snip] Google used to update its web index every month which, because it caused results to jump around a little, was dubbed the Google Dance. But not anymore, says Mr Cutts. "Within the last...
Interview With Google's Craig Silverstein
CNet has an interview with Craig Silverstein. . He's 31. 31. I have never felt so decrepit....
Continue reading "Interview With Google's Craig Silverstein" » Tracking Google Bombs
Philipp Lenssen is tracking the status of several attempted Googlebombs at http://blog.outer-court.com/googlebomb/. The earliest one is from April 2001....
Microsoft's New Search Engine and Engine Spam
vnunet.com is reporting that Microsoft is planning to add a spam filter to its search engine. "The company unveiled a research project at its Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View which uses statistical analysis to locate spam web pages." Note...
Continue reading "Microsoft's New Search Engine and Engine Spam" » June 09, 2004Ask Those Oklahoma Librarians
If you've been wondering how to get your Oklahoma questions answered, wonder no more. The Oklahoma Department of Libraries has a handy-dandy page where you can either e-mail your question to a librarian (with an answer promised within five business...
Chemicals In Cosmetics -- The Database
The Environmental Working Group has released a database of chemicals in cosmetics and personal care products. The site is searchable in a few different ways, with a "quick picks" links. It's available at http://www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep/browse_products.php . The site starts you out...
Search Engine Watch Adds Forums
SearchEngineWatch.com ( http://searchenginewatch.com ), has added some forums. These new forums include general search engine chatter, a place for SEO, and a spotlight forum for featured post. You can get full information about the new forums at the forum announcement:...
June 08, 2004Whoopee! FindArticles Now Offering Serious Search Syntax
For a long time I have had a love-hate relationship with FindArticles. On one hand I loved the idea of a huge collection of magazine articles. On the other hand the fact that you couldn't sort results by date, couldn't...
Continue reading "Whoopee! FindArticles Now Offering Serious Search Syntax" » Bunches of Census Links at Census Online
US genealogists, you'll enjoy this site. Census Online offers links to over 39,000 United States census, and over 600 Canadian census, at http://www.census-online.com/links/ . (There are also a few other countries in a text menu on the left of the...
Continue reading "Bunches of Census Links at Census Online" » Bostonian Society Now Features Photograph Collection of Boston Street Scenes
The Bostonian Society has put its library catalog online as well as a database of 3,000 photographs of Boston street scenes ca 1850-1980. The database is searchable from http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/ . The photograph has a simple keyword search and a more...
Continue reading "Bostonian Society Now Features Photograph Collection of Boston Street Scenes" » June 07, 2004Michael Fagan Cooks Up Quote Finder
Have you visited Michael Fagan's site yet? He runs Fagan Finder at http://www.faganfinder.com , which is a ton of tools oriented toward specialty searching. Why hasn't anybody hired this guy yet? Oh, that's right. He's still in school. He scares...
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