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Lycos doesn't seem to get on many search radars these days, which is why it was a bit odd to hear from them that they're now offering a discussion search. It's in beta, and can come up with some...
More Fun Baseball Facts
Why am I turning into such a baseball nut in August? Anyway, if your interest in baseball borders on the trivial, you'll love the Baseball Almanac at http://www.baseball-almanac.com . Not that there isn't a lot of great information here. From...
BoardReader is Now Using Vivisimo
Clustering search engine Vivisimo is now being used by forum search engine BoardReader (http://www.boardreader.com/. ) I did a search for mulberries and got category results including trees, birds, peaches, wine, and .. equipment on D-Day?...
August 30, 2004TV Guide Offers Movie and Sports Guide
To keep up with my beloved Cubbies I usually use tv.yahoo.com, but sometimes I find that the site doesn't respond, or it only has a day's worth of sports listings. Because of that I was glad to see that TV...
Republican National Convention Web Coverage
There are many places to get coverage on the Republican National Convention online. RNCBloggers (http://www.rncbloggers.com/) aggregates the blog post of both accredited bloggers and "other" coverage. Technorati has an aggregate of conservative bloggers at http://politics.technorati.com/posts/index.html?c=c . (As you might expect...
Continue reading "Republican National Convention Web Coverage" » August 29, 2004The GMail Filesystem
GmailFS: "GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium." Very early, the author promises it'll have bugs, written in Python (not that there's anything wrong with that.) Marvelous....
August 28, 2004An Entire Web Site Devoted to Switching from IE to Firefox
http://firefoxie.net/. Fifteen steps to install and upgrade Firefox so it "feels" like IE. Steps include hiding the search bar, getting a Googlebar with page rank, upgrading the interface, some recommended extensions, etc....
Continue reading "An Entire Web Site Devoted to Switching from IE to Firefox" » How Many RSS Feeds Does the Washington Post Have?
A post at MoreThanThis alerted me to the fact that the Washington Post was doing RSS feed related to current events. The same entry lamented that the Washington Post doesn't list all its available RSS feeds. A quick Google search...
Continue reading "How Many RSS Feeds Does the Washington Post Have?" » August 24, 2004TSLAC Creates Searchable Database
The Texas State Library and Archives has created a database of digitized items from its Adjutant General Service Records Collection. It's available at http://www2.tsl.state.tx.us/trail/ServiceSearch.jsp . Before you get too excited looking at the searching options, however, please note that only...
Search A Local Index of Pages With Recall Toolbar
Ah, your hard drive, the next frontier in search technology. For a long time there have been specialized tools to search your browser history; here's one that searches an index of visited Web pages you specify. It's called Recall Toolbar...
Continue reading "Search A Local Index of Pages With Recall Toolbar" » August 23, 2004Fagan Finder Launches URL Information Tool
Michael Fagan continues his reign of awesomeness with a really nice tool for getting information on an URL. And I'm talking all kinds of information -- development, cache, everything. Check it out at http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/ . It starts out simple; enter...
Continue reading "Fagan Finder Launches URL Information Tool" » Genealogy and RSS
If you like genealogy and RSS, enjoy this site. rssGenealogy, at http://rssGenealogy.com , offers genealogy headlines from several different sources, all in one page. The feeds are divided into categories including news and articles (49 feeds), items for sale (12...
New Photo Collection from the Bureau of Land Management
"It's a man's life in the Bureau of Land Management! Lemming, Lemming, Lemming of the BLM..." Uh. Too much Python. Way, WAY too much Python. Take your mind off Monty Python with the Bureau of Land Management's new online collection...
Continue reading "New Photo Collection from the Bureau of Land Management" » New Mozilla.org Design
There's a new design of the Mozilla.org Web site being tested. Check it out....
August 20, 2004Yahoo's VS Switch
Thanks to JonnyGoodboy for Looking into the VS switch at Yahoo's search....
August 19, 2004Yahoo's No-Limit Query Limit As Opposed to Google's -- So What?
I've gotten several mails about Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can't. Many people asked about the query limit, mostly two things: 1) Is there any query limit? 2) So what? Why would you want to search for so...
Continue reading "Yahoo's No-Limit Query Limit As Opposed to Google's -- So What?" » August 18, 2004Yahoo's Got Its Own Search Blog
'Tip to Jeremy Z. for pointing out the New Yahoo Search Blog. Confidential to Yahoo: Do you realize what a gem you have in Jeremy and his communication with the Internet search peanut gallery? There have been some times where...
Langmaker Langmaker, Make Me A Lang.. Uage
You know, there are more made-up languages than just pig latin. Not only are there ones you have probably heard of, like the languages Tolkien invented, and more recent languages like Klingon, but there are also many that were invented...
Continue reading "Langmaker Langmaker, Make Me A Lang.. Uage" » Getcher Google Results With Thumbnails
I have mentioned more and more in the last few months search engines which offer small screen shots of pages (thumbnails) with search results. While these are certainly nothing new they seem to be gaining in popularity. Thanks to the...
August 17, 2004Ain't Misbehavin'.. It's the Windows Service Pack 2
Microsoft's Web site has a list of Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2. The data organization nut in me is appalled that this list: a) appears to be sorted by vendor; b) has no option...
Continue reading "Ain't Misbehavin'.. It's the Windows Service Pack 2" » MSN Shuts Down Preview of Search Technology
Apparently I did my review of the MSN search technology beta just in time, as trying to access it now gets you this page: http://techpreview.search.msn.com/10508/techpreview/sorry/ww/sorry-ww.htm which includes the text "Once we are ready, we will release another preview of our...
Continue reading "MSN Shuts Down Preview of Search Technology" » Find Out About the Business of Baseball
Interested about more in baseball than the infield fly rule? Find out about at the Business of Baseball site, now at http://www.businessofbaseball.com . It's for people who want to learn about the business end of professional baseball. The site is...
Continue reading "Find Out About the Business of Baseball" » Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can't
To celebrate the upcoming release of Web Search Garage ( http://www.websearchgarage.com ) I have a freebie PDF tip sheet for you -- "Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can't." Not that I don't have a lot of love for...
Continue reading "Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can't" » Access WikiPedia From the Palm
Every time I see the word Wiki, I think of the song "Jam on It" by Newcleus. Wikki wikki wikki wikki -- ! Back to the WikiPedia. arsLexis has released a product, iPedia, which allows you to access the WikiPedia...
August 16, 2004Take A Search Engine Survey
Sid Yadav has opened up a survey on the future of search engines. It'll be up through mid-November. Take it at http://www.nextsearchsurvey.com/....
Attack of the Marcus Zillman White Paper
Marcus Zillman is offering a new research white paper called "Bots, Blogs, and News Aggregators". It's free and available at http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/BotsBlogs.pdf (1.5 MB PDF). It's a 20-page pointer to 'bots, 'blogs, and aggregators. Most of these I knew about but...
Continue reading "Attack of the Marcus Zillman White Paper" » Web Site Lists British Births, Deaths, Marriages -- But You'll Pay
If you're looking for information on British war dead and you don't mind filling out a somewhat snarky registration and paying some moolah, you might be interested in the Web site 1837Online ( http://www.1837online.com ). (How is the registration snarky?...
Continue reading "Web Site Lists British Births, Deaths, Marriages -- But You'll Pay" » A Roundup of Olympics Resources
Between the tornado watches and the flood warnings and the rain that just wouldn't stop over the weekend, I did manage to watch a bit of the Olympics. As you might expect there are plenty of online resources to give...
Google Mindmap
This is cute! I like this. It makes my brain hurt. In a good way. http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2004_08_11_index.html#109222064061401876...
August 14, 2004Yahoo Has a Special Edition for Google's IPO
Okay, sure, why not. Keep up with Google's IPO at Yahoo: http://biz.yahoo.com/special/googleipo2.html ....
Continue reading "Yahoo Has a Special Edition for Google's IPO" » August 13, 2004The Harry Potter News Aggregator
Has anyone else had the problem that they read the title "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" as "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Uzbekistan" ? Perhaps it's just me. Anyway, if you're a Potterhead (or a Malfoyhead or...
A Catalog of Video Movie Title Screens
I love the Internet. Where else are you going to get a catalog of the title screens of over 2800 movies? It's available at http://www.shillpages.com/movies/ . The listings here are in browsable alphabetically. I don't see a keyword search (rats!)...
It's Funny Where the 3GB E-Mail Accounts are Popping Up
The latest one I've seen is at a portal for motorcycle enthusiasts. "HellaciousRiders.com an iTrade Group, Inc. Company is giving away unlimited 3 Gigabyte HRiders.com email accounts to its members.... HRiders.com's service includes an anti-virus application & spam blockers fully...
Continue reading "It's Funny Where the 3GB E-Mail Accounts are Popping Up" » August 12, 2004PRONOM The Web-Based File Format Registry
What program goes with that file format anyway? If you've computers for any length of time you know that there are literally hundreds of file formats out there, and they're tough to keep up with. PRONOM, at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/ , provides...
Continue reading "PRONOM The Web-Based File Format Registry" » Get Help In Texas
211 Texas is both a phone number and a Web site to point people toward community resources in Texas. There's both a phone number (211, natch) and a Web site (http://www.irissoft.com/fcfh/) to access the information. The Web site has a...
August 11, 2004Historical Exchange Rates
Eh.net has a form where you can get historical exchange rates between the US dollar and several different currencies over a period of years, including Ireland (1951-1999), the UK (1791-2000), Mexico (1921-1999), and India (1922-1999). It's available at http://eh.net/hmit/exchangerates/ ....
The Theodore Roosevelt Encyclopedia
Actually they call it the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia, but let's not quibble. What it is, is a CD-ROM that was published to the Web. It's presented in frames at http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/TR%20Web%20Book/Index.html . On the left is the index and on the...
New Natural Language Search Engine: Kozoru
Put Kozoru on your radar, they just got three million dollars in financing. Nothing going on with their Web site at the moment, but a couple things are interesting about this: - Investment from the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. Is...
Continue reading "New Natural Language Search Engine: Kozoru" » August 10, 2004Nature Publishing Group Adds Bunch of RSS Feeds
Nature Publishing Group has added a bunch of RSS feeds. Some of them sound like nature journals, like "Nature Biotechnology" and "Nature Structural & Molecular Biology," but the British Dental Journal is also listed here....
Continue reading "Nature Publishing Group Adds Bunch of RSS Feeds" » Baseball Cards at the Library of Congress
Yup, the LOC has a lighter side. And they're proving it in this collection of 2100 baseball cards. Early baseball cards. And when I say early I mean 1887 to 1914. You can see 'em at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/bbcardsabt.html . This seems...
Continue reading "Baseball Cards at the Library of Congress" » G-Metrics Measures Google Results Across Time
You might be interested in the popularity of keywords in Google for a variety of reasons -- you might be doing research on a technology, or you might be trying to optimize your page and get a sense of how...
Continue reading "G-Metrics Measures Google Results Across Time" » August 09, 2004National Archives are Going Digital?
A PC World Story reports that the National Archives are going to offer an Electronic Records Archives, scheduled to open by 2007. However, it won't be complete; the archives are not expected to be finished until 2011, when they will...
Category-Specific RSS Feeds at ResearchBuzz
If you're interested in only a few categories of information, you'll like the fact that ResearchBuzz now has category-specific RSS feeds. Go to the category page of your choice (all 200+ categories are listed at http://www.researchbuzz.com/categories.shtml) and look at the...
Continue reading "Category-Specific RSS Feeds at ResearchBuzz" » Yahoo Offers an Anti-Spy Solution
Yahoo's started offering a toolbar with an anti-spy solution. The anti-spy solution adds a lot to the download -- it's 3MB, whereas without it's 0.4 MB -- and it still requires Internet Explorer. You can download it at http://toolbar.yahoo.com/ ....
August 05, 2004Nextaris, Web-Searching Information-Sharing News-Tracking Application Thingie
If you've read this newsletter for any length of time you've plumped to the idea that I don't like portals, and I didn't like them when they were all the rage back in the late 90s. I found them annoying....
Continue reading "Nextaris, Web-Searching Information-Sharing News-Tracking Application Thingie" » Icerocket Search Engine Offers Searches by E-Mail
I saw a news article about Icerocket -- it must be several months ago now, and I think it was in the Las Vegas Business Journal. At any rate, when I went to check on it there wasn't much there....
Continue reading "Icerocket Search Engine Offers Searches by E-Mail" » August 04, 2004Frequency of Source Appearance in Google News
Digital Deliverance looked at how often sources appear on the front page of Google News. Very interesting breakdown. I've got some ideas rolling around in my of search engine result analysis I'd like to do -- maybe when I get...
Continue reading "Frequency of Source Appearance in Google News" » Google's Added Dates to their Caches Again
Google's caches again have dates. Thanks to his Garyness for the pointer....
Continue reading "Google's Added Dates to their Caches Again" » NewsIsFree Makes More News In Big Maps
NewsIsFree has teamed up with the Hive Group to present news in visual maps. If you liked the app I talked about last May ( http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001653.shtml ) you'll like this, as it offers even more control. It uses Java,...
Topix Redesigns, Offers Some New Stuff
Topix has redesigned and offers some new sources, including more news sources (up to over 7,000 now) and other goodies. The home page hasn't changed, though -- it's still at http://www.topix.net . I was crabbing yesterday about very basic news...
Yahoo Launches Beta of Local Search
Yahoo has announced a beta search of a new Yahoo Local, at http://local.yahoo.com . Instead of the stuff you might remember from Yahoo Get Local, this is a search that allows you to specify what you're looking for as well...
August 03, 2004A Google Tool For Mozilla
If you're using FireFox, you may want to check out LookAhead ( http://lookahead.mozdev.org/ ), a tool for proactively getting Google results in multiple browser windows. Once you've installed the extension, and choose LookAhead, you can run a Google search and...
Another Source for Keyword-Specific RSS News Feeds
How much of a nerd am I? I'm so much of a nerd I love keyword-specific RSS feeds. When I'm trying to search for a subject or keep up on a subject they're a wonderful resource. With that in mind,...
Continue reading "Another Source for Keyword-Specific RSS News Feeds" » August 02, 2004Blogdigger's New Media Feeds
Well, I don't know how new it is, but it's new to me. Blogdigger, a Weblog search engine, is now offering some specialty media feeds. You can get 'em at http://www.blogdigger.com/media/ . These new feeds offer links to the latest...
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