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The University of Texas at El Paso and UT Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program have teamed up to create an Herbal Safety Web site at http://www.herbalsafety.utep.edu . The site is available in English and Spanish. There are several tabs of information...
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Vivisimo has launched a new search engine, Clusty. I'm going to get in a lot of trouble because I keep wanting to type "Crusty" instead of "Clusty" but let's continue anyway. You can get it at http://www.clusty.com ; as you...
Page O' Moreover RSS Feeds
Moreover has a page of its RSS feeds at http://w.moreover.com/categories/category_list_rss.html. RSS feeds are advertising supported but free for non-commercial use. There are over 300 feeds on this listing....
How Much Page Does Yahoo Index?
One of the lesser-discussed facets of Web searching is the spidering limits of search engines. Even if a search engine is a full-text engine, it may not search the entirety of a given page if it's too large. In Google's...
ResearchBuzz Will be Published Tomorrow
The ResearchBuzz newsletter will be sent out tomorrow; lots of news stories and items will be added to the site today. Thanks for your patience....
Continue reading "ResearchBuzz Will be Published Tomorrow" » September 29, 2004Australian Government Planning Thesis Database
An article in The Australian describes the upcoming expansion of the Australian Digital Theses Program from the current 2600 theses to records of information about up to 130,000 theses -- some of them online and some with links to order...
Continue reading "Australian Government Planning Thesis Database" » September 24, 2004Weblog Post on GMail Apps
If you're looking for some guidance on good GMail apps, Aimless Words has a blog post that might be able to help you....
Yahoo API Wish List
">Jeremy asks about what Web services Yahoo should offer.. Hm. Assuming they offer an API, I'd: * Offer search access to their special collections -- images, news, etc. (this is the 2nd most frustrating thing about Google's API) *...
Countrywide Flu Shot Locator
The American Lung Association has a flu shot locator at http://www.lungusa.org. Enter your zip code and it'll give you a list of facilities and dates for flu shots. A search for 90210 found 53 locations....
September 22, 2004Isolating Google's Printed Material in a Google Search Form
This form doesn't work any more since Google has separated out its Google Print material from its main search engine index. Google has digitized a certain amount of printed material and made it available via regular Web search. Magazine articles...
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I have seen many almanac reference-type biography resources on the Internet. I have never seen one which bothered to assemble a fact list of actors and famous people who have been attacked by lions. This is your introduction to biographical...
Get or Give Gmail Invites With GMailOMatic
I heard about this last week, but when I tried to send it a couple invitations, it didn't work. It worked yesterday so I'll mention it. GmailOMatic ( http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.php) allows people to submit Gmail invitations and request Gmail invitations. So...
Continue reading "Get or Give Gmail Invites With GMailOMatic" » September 21, 2004Ask Jeeves Kicks Out A Big Redesign
You know, everybody thinks it's Yahoo vs. Google, Yahoo vs. Google -- and eventually Yahoo vs. Google vs. Microsoft when they get around to jumping into the search wars. But while Google and Yahoo are slugging it out in a...
Google Local Canada
I must have missed it somewhere, but Google is also offering an Canadian version of its Google Local search. Google Local Canada's available at http://local.google.ca . Searches are provided within a kilometer instead of a mile radius, but other than...
September 20, 2004Put RSS Feeds On Your Web Page
If you're interested in putting RSS feeds on your Web page but you don't have a lot of server/programming expertise, you might want to try the RSS Digest tool at http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/ . This tools has some nice extras on it,...
Big Collection of Roger Ebert Movie Reviews
For someone who counts herself lucky if she manages to see one movie a year, I find myself fascinated with movie reviews. Now I have a giant archive of reviews to go through as the Chicago Sun-Times gives Roger Ebert...
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Anick Jesdanun of the AP has a roundup article covering sites which track election campaign giving. Read it at http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,51548213,1466,f/....
Continue reading "AP Article on Web Sites Tracking Campaign Giving" » September 19, 2004Arr Mateys, Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day
Arrrr, happy Talk Like a Pirate Day. Yus....
Continue reading "Arr Mateys, Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day" » September 18, 2004Past Catalogs from U of Tennesee
The University of Tennesee is building an online archive of past catalogs. It's available at http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/dlc/catalog/index.html. Currently it holds catalogs back to the 1994-1995 seasons, but plans are afoot to add more catalogs. Catalogs are in PDF....
Power Google Course
Reg Aubry, who is NOT related to Reg Shoe or the Flying Aubrys, but who is the discoverer of the phonebook: syntax, is offering an online course called Power Google: Top Tips for Rapid Ready Reference. The course is being...
September 17, 2004The Search Engine Watch Blog
Congratulations to the good folks at Search Engine Watch! They've started a new 'blog at http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/. Contributors include Gary Price (hey man!) and Danny Sullivan....
Yahoo Finance Kicks Out a Weekend Edition
Yahoo Finance announced this week a weekend edition, which launched this evening at the usual http://finance.yahoo.com and also at http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/ . The new weekend material includes "Smarter Cars Are Safer Cars", "Testing Tiny Digital Cameras", and "Finding Help in Hard...
Continue reading "Yahoo Finance Kicks Out a Weekend Edition" » Squirrels On Campus
Squirrels. Are they adorable little critters who look so cute as they romp through your yard, or are they rampaging little butterbeans who eat your wooden birdhouses because they're too stupid to find their acorns? My opinion varies depending on...
September 16, 2004Firefox Goes to 1.0
Mozilla's Firefox browser has gone to a 1.0 release and is now available for download at http://www.mozilla.org/ . I've been sticking to the regular Mozilla thus far, but I decided to download and install the new Firefox. Installation went okay...
Google Enhances Google Local Service
Google has announced enhancements to its newish Google Local service at http://local.google.com . When you go to the page you'll see a space for what you're looking for and another space for where you'll looking. The results pages is where...
A9 Offers Search Results From Five Sources
A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, has relaunched its search engine. It now offers search results from several different sources, including the IMDB and of course, Amazon.com. It's available at http://www.a9.com . I decided to search for Duke Ellington. "Duke...
Continue reading "A9 Offers Search Results From Five Sources" » September 15, 2004Connecticut Distance Learning Directory
Connecticut has a distance learning directory at http://www.ctdlc.org/Student/index.html. Courses range from accounting to theology. Also included on this site are educational links, job and career help, and distance learning FAQs....
Continue reading "Connecticut Distance Learning Directory" » Camp Ruston Information Now Available Online
Camp Ruston was one of the largest prisoner of war camps in the US during World War II. At its peak the camp held over 4,300 prisoners. Information about the camp is now available via the Louisiana Digital Library at...
Continue reading "Camp Ruston Information Now Available Online" » Test Drive a Bunch of Open Source Content Management Systems
Now THIS is a marvelous idea. Put a bunch of content management systems online with screenshots, and descriptions. Make the admin passwords public so that anyone can log in and "test-drive" the system. Delete and reinstall each system every two...
Continue reading "Test Drive a Bunch of Open Source Content Management Systems" » September 14, 2004Another Buzz-Checking Application -- Blabble
This is the second buzz-checking application I've covered in a week or so. Is the next big blog problem going to be buzz spaham? Are we going to have people posting runaway praises of things in their 'blogs, or...
Continue reading "Another Buzz-Checking Application -- Blabble" » A Personal Web Site Full of Agricultural Data
I rarely cover personal sites that are explicitly defined as personal sites, but in the case of Paul ten Hove I'll make an exception. Paul ten Hove worked for Euroconsult for 30 years, eventually becoming a agronomist who specialized in...
Continue reading "A Personal Web Site Full of Agricultural Data" » September 13, 2004Checking the Political Buzz with Campaign Radar
If you're interested not only in the US political campaign but what folks are saying about the US political campaign, you want to check out Campaign Radar. A variant of Intelliseek's BlogPulse that's focused on politics, you can find it...
Continue reading "Checking the Political Buzz with Campaign Radar" » Findory Offers Personalized-News-Alerts-Inna-Box
Findory ( http://www.findory.com ) has been mentioned in ResearchBuzz before; it's a Web site that provides personalized news based on the headlines you view. Now it offers personalized news based on what you pick -- online you can put the...
Continue reading "Findory Offers Personalized-News-Alerts-Inna-Box" » What's New With Google News
Google News has added a whole bunch of features while we weren't lookin'. First off there's a new pull-down menu at the top of the page which easily allows you access to the top stories across all the Google News...
September 12, 2004National Hurricane Center Offering RSS Feeds
Propburgers with a side of propfries to reader GM who sent me a note about the National Hurricane Center offering RSS feeds. There are three available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.shtml -- Atlantic and Eastern Pacific in English, and Atlantic in Spanish....
Continue reading "National Hurricane Center Offering RSS Feeds" » Track Campaign Donations to Illinois Candidates
The Illinois Sunshine Database (Illinois Sunshine Database?) offers information about over 150,000 recent contributions to Illinois political candidates. It's updated through June 30, 2004 and is available at http://www.ilcampaign.org. (Look on the right side of the page.) An advanced search...
Continue reading "Track Campaign Donations to Illinois Candidates" » September 09, 2004CliffsNotes Now Available for Free Online Viewing
CliffsNotes has announced that they've got 180 literature guides online for free viewing. The snag is that viewing is the only thing that's free. Downloading and printing the guides will cost $5.99 The CliffsNotes site is at http://www.cliffsnotes.com . You...
Continue reading "CliffsNotes Now Available for Free Online Viewing" » Peerbot Offers Searching by Favicon
You know what favicons are? They're little teeny icons that show up on the address bar in at least Opera, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer. You can get information on what they are and how to put them together at http://www.clickfire.com/viewpoints/articles/favicons.php...
Redball Search Engine Rolling in Austria On October 1
I see lots and lots of press releases about new search engines. But this one from Redball ( http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040907/uktu004_1.html ) from September 7 was most intriguing. Don't go running to http://www.redball.info to check out the engine; it hasn't launched yet...
Continue reading "Redball Search Engine Rolling in Austria On October 1" » September 08, 2004Seven Ways to Save Time Searching
Another freebie from Web Search Garage: Seven Ways to Save Time Searching....
State Library of Connecticut Updates History Page
The State Library of Connecticut has updated their history page. More annotation, more sources, and what looks like just generally more stuff. Good stuff! http://www.cslib.org/history.htm....
Continue reading "State Library of Connecticut Updates History Page" » Yahoo Previewing Travel Search Tool, IE Only
Yahoo is previewing a new travel search tool. Remember when they bought FareChase? It was just a couple months ago -- see http://www.internetweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26806466 for details. Anyway, they've got a new preview of a search tool that ONLY BLOODY WORKS IN...
Continue reading "Yahoo Previewing Travel Search Tool, IE Only" » Agricultural Research Service Launches Plant Nutrient Database (Sorta)
The Agricultural Research Service has launched a plant nutrient database containing information on phytonutrients in 206 different foods. It's available at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/PA/PA.html . I put the sorta in the headline because it's not really a database - you can't do...
Continue reading "Agricultural Research Service Launches Plant Nutrient Database (Sorta)" » September 07, 2004Track News Buzz By Name
If you like sites like Yahoo Buzz which tell you about the most popular people and topics in searches, you'll like NewsbyName. It scans news for names and ranks name popularity as well as being a dandy name news search....
Wotbox Rolls Out Country-Specific Search Engines
Search engine Wotbox, last covered by ResearchBuzz about a year ago ( http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/000352.shtml ) has announced that they've started country-specific sites. Here's the list: Australia - http://www.wotbox.com.au Canada - http://ca.wotbox.com France - http://fr.wotbox.com Germany - http://www.wotbox.de Italy - http://www.wotbox.it New...
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Gallina version 0.1, a proof of concept to post to a 'blog with Gmail messages. Gmail doesn't have an API, I don't think, so I wonder why all the brainpower for this stuff is focused on Google and not, say,...
Happy Sixth Birthday Google!
Google celebrates its sixth birthday. Unfortunately that logo doesn't link to query. "WOO HOO!" perhaps?...
New User's Guide to ResearchBuzz
New User's Guide to ResearchBuzz is finally available. I did a few more things. Probably the biggest thing is now there's a JavaScript implementation for adding the site's RSS feed to your site. Actually, four RSS feeds from the site...
September 06, 2004Speaking of WiFi
Everybody's been talking about Philadelphia thinking about going to an all-city, WiFi, so I thought I'd mention a press release at Michigan's Web site. Michigan has deployed WiFi at two state parks, and has plans for lots, lots more. They...
State of Idaho Starts Business Site
The state of Idaho has started a new site for business information at http://business.idaho.gov/. Information lookups available on this site include commercial and industrial properties, business entity search, and UCC/Lien search....
September 03, 2004Get Information on Lawyers In Ohio
The state of Ohio now has a site where you can look up information on lawyers. The site is free and it's available at http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/atty_reg/Public_AttorneyInformation.asp . You may search by name (first, last, middle), as well as registration number,...
September 02, 2004Gooooooooogle Google Whoops
You may have noticed that Google AdSense ads now say "Ads by Gooooooooogle". When I saw this I thought, "Okay, that's cute, so if you go to Gooooooooogle.com you'll get a unique page about Google's text advertisements, etc. etc. What...
All Your Avibase Are Belong To Us
Are All Your Base jokes passe? Really? Drat; I do enjoy them. If you like birds you'll enjoy AviBase at http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp , information on 10,000 species and over 20,000 subspecies of birds. There's a simple search form at the top...
Department of Agriculture Has Quick Stats Available
Looking for information on agriculture in the US? Quick Stats will help you. The 2002 Census of Agriculture page has a feature that'll let you query the data in several different ways. The page is at http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/ . Choose Quick...
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