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« September 2004 | Main | November 2004 » October 29, 2004Come See the Digitized Side of Sears
Before there was Wal-Mart and Target, there was Sears. There was the appliance line and the shoe department and the Toughskins. There was the Wish Book. Oh, the Wish Book. Now you can relive the annals of the department store...
British American Tobacco Documents Online
The University of California has released an archive of over a million pages of documents related to the British American Tobacco company. It's available at http://bat.library.ucsf.edu/ , but it ain't finished; it'll be added to at the rate of 200,000...
Continue reading "British American Tobacco Documents Online" » October 28, 2004Feedster Offers RSS Feed Finder
Feedster is now offering an RSS feed finder, at http://www.feedster.com/feedfinder.php . This search is in beta, but allows you do search a database of over 900,000 RSS feeds (Feedster claims an index of 972,046 feeds at this point) by entering...
Gmail Bugs List
Google's got a list of Gmail's bugs at http://www.google.com/gmail/help/bugslist.html. This list does not include the recently announced security hole, which has been fixed....
Google's Cheat Sheet Reveals A Couple Hidden Syntaxes
Google has released a new cheat sheet at http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html . It's a list of syntaxes you can use with Google's search engine, along with some of the specialty offerings like its calculator. And while there are a couple new things...
Continue reading "Google's Cheat Sheet Reveals A Couple Hidden Syntaxes" » Let's Talk Search/SEO Topics
If you're looking for a place to talk searching/SEO, check out ThreadWatch.org (http://www.threadwatch.org). The site is a sorta-cross between a blog in that SEO/searching news is posted blogstyle (it's mostly SEO -- designed for people interested in SEO) and then...
October 26, 2004Wiki for News?
You might have heard of wikis. Webopedia defines a wiki as "A collaborative Web site comprised of the perpetual collective work of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or...
EB Offers Content on American Presidency
Encyclopedia Britannica is now offering fahree content about the American presidency; you can find it at http://www.britannica.com/presidentsWebapp/home.do . The site offers information on the presidency itself, as well as information on the presidents, vice-presidents, and first ladies. There's information on...
Continue reading "EB Offers Content on American Presidency" » October 25, 2004WSJ Gives It Away, Gives It Away, Gives It Away Now
News.com is reporting that the Wall Street Journal has not only started giving away some of its content, but that it's going to go completely free for a five-day period, starting on November 8. You can see the CNET article...
Continue reading "WSJ Gives It Away, Gives It Away, Gives It Away Now" » NewsGator RSS Reader Gets Fahree
You may know NewsGator http://www.newsgator.com as an RSS reader that integrates into Outlook, and that's so. But they also have an online RSS reader that until recently cost to use. They announced last week however that it's now fahree. I've...
Yahoo Image Search Breaks a Billion
Yahoo announced last week on the Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo Images search ( http://images.search.yahoo.com ) now has over a billion images. Google Image Search, for those of you playing along at home, counts itself as having something over 880...
October 24, 2004This Week's Lunar Eclipse
Shadow and Substance has a series of movies showing what the lunar eclipse this week will look like across the US. Pick your state and watch the movie....
Google Desktop Proxy
Project Computing has released a Google Desktop Proxy. This Java tool will allow other computers to access your Google desktop search results remotely. Um, ick, though I suppose there are folks who would find it useful....
Gmail Invite Script
Oh, this is cute! A GMail Invite Script. It requires PHP. It generates a PNG file showing how many GMail invites you have available. Nice!...
Microsoft Desktop Search? End of the Year.
ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft will make its own foray into desktop search by the end of the year. "During its earnings call with financial analysts, Microsoft said an MSN-branded tool would be made available before the end of 2004....
Continue reading "Microsoft Desktop Search? End of the Year." » October 22, 2004Saturday Night Live Transcripts
They're not all here but there are alot of transcripts of Saturday Night Live here -- relive the glory days when you were actually physically capable of staying up past 11:30 on a Saturday night! The transcripts are at http://snltranscripts.jt.org/...
October 21, 2004Clay at the Narina
First of all, don't pronounce it "Dorton Arena." Nobody I know pronounces it "Dorton Arena." Instead, it's Dort Narina. Actually for people who see it the first time, it's usually "What the heck is that?"...
October 20, 2004Anybody live-blogging the election?
If anyone's live-blogging the election -- that is, sitting in front of your computer and kibitzing the elections as they happen on 2 November -- please drop me a note. Thankee....
New UK-Specific Search Engine -- UKWizz
If the ratio of silly name to success is any indication, UK-specific search engine UKWizz is well on the way. It's available at http://www.ukwizz.com . UKWizz is designed as a UK-only search engine, but as their Web page says, "Our...
Continue reading "New UK-Specific Search Engine -- UKWizz" » New Search Engine -- Exalead
I'm not sure why the top of the page says 1 billion pages and the bottom of the page says 302,533,532 Web documents, but I'll go with it. The search engine is called Exalead and it's available at http://beta.exalead.com/search ....
askSam Releases a Lot of Election Materials In Searchable Format
Database company askSam has released several sets of election information in searchable askSam format. Windows users can download a free viewer to search and view the information in the databases. Materials included in the available databases include transcripts of the...
Continue reading "askSam Releases a Lot of Election Materials In Searchable Format" » October 19, 2004State Fair -- Animals at the Fair
While I was taking pictures at the fair I discovered a hitherto-unknown talent: I can capture camels in mid-goofy-expression....
SORA Project for Bird Information
See, see, THIS is the kind of stuff that should be included in Google Print! Archives of six ornithological journals, three of them encompassing over one hundred years' worth of material -- argh argh argh. The SORA Project is available...
Lycos Goes to 10GB E-Mail
DMEurope is reporting that Lycos UK is now offering a premium e-mail product with 10GB of storage. Good grief. I'm just waiting for OneTerabyteEmail.com ....
October 18, 2004State Fair Taste Test -- Deep Fried Oreos
One of the reasons I enjoy the Fair so much is the food. Yes, the biscuits and grits in the morning. Yes, the sausage and onions. Yes, the sweet corn. (Wow, the sweet corn.) But in addition to those things,...
Continue reading "State Fair Taste Test -- Deep Fried Oreos" » The International Type Index
As I think I've said before, I like playing with fonts. I like playing with fonts because they make me feel like I'm actually doing something design-y, though actually I couldn't design my way out of a wet sack. If...
State Fair -- Doggies of the Wild West
If you're wondering what all the barking is behind the Village of Yesteryear and near the Heritage Village at the North Carolina State Fair, drop by and investigate. If you get there early enough you'll be able to enjoy a...
Google the Great Time Saver
A quick article for b/ITe of the SLA. in PDF format....
Yahoo Local Gets Way Enhanced
You ever feel like you're way behind and you're just going to get more behind? My review queue is jammed. I may just take a weekend and do nothing but review resources and drink Red Bull. Anyway, Yahoo! Local has...
October 17, 2004LookSmart Teams Up with Cal Bears
LookSmart has hooked up with the University of California, Berkeley to create CalBearsSearch.com, a search engine that splits generated ad revenue with Berkeley to support Cal athletics. Of course, if you want to search just Berkeley you've also got Google's...
Google Code Jam Winners
Congratulations to Google Code Jam Winners Sergio Sancho, Po-Ru Loh, Reid Barton, and Tomasz Czajka....
Calculating Deep Link Ratio Using Yahoo
This is a little out of searching and more into SEO/Advertising, but I found it such an interesting use of the link/linkdomain syntaxes on Yahoo, I'm including it here. Roger Smolski has developed a formula called the Deep Link Ratio...
Continue reading "Calculating Deep Link Ratio Using Yahoo" » October 13, 2004New Yahoo Hack -- Searchroller for Domain Searches
This one isn't quite finished yet. I'm hampered by my incomplete knowledge -- okay, almost complete non-knowledge -- of JavaScript. I'm going to toss it out here and if anyone wants to give some feedback, that's be great. A long,...
Continue reading "New Yahoo Hack -- Searchroller for Domain Searches" » October 12, 2004LOC Expands Online Gerry Mulligan Collection
The Library of Congress announced that they have added new materials to the Gerry Mulligan Collection Web site, including a 413 discography, in PDF format for easy download. There's also manuscript scores and some notated scores. The collection is available...
Continue reading "LOC Expands Online Gerry Mulligan Collection" » H-Bot Answers Historical Questions
If you're stilll into natural language searching, check out H-Bot at http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/h-bot/ . H-Bot answers historical questions, and while it's not always right, it was better than I thought it would be. I always start messing with these things by...
October 11, 2004GoHook Adds PDF and Audio Files
I covered GoHook last January as a site that indexed completed eBay auctions. Since then it's expanded a little bit... If you go to http://www.gohook.com now you'll see that you have the option to search PDF files and audio files...
New York Times Launches Photo Archives
The New York Times has launched a photo archives at http://www.nytimes.com/nytstore/photos/index.html . And while it's really set up as a store, it's still a lot of fun to just browse. The photo archives are searchable by keyword or browsable by...
October 10, 2004Gigablast Grows
Gigablast announced last week that they'd grown from 450 million to 650 million pages indexed during the last few months. Gigablast has also grown its staff, too, and has moved to a larger headquarters. Grats to Gigablast....
Hack A Day Covers Hardware Hacks
If you're into computer/hardware/electronics hacks, tune in to the new Weblog HackADay (http://www.hackaday.com/. Overclocks, digital photography hacks, RSS feeds on your TiVo, etc etc......
Google Code Jam Finalists
The 50 Google Code Jam finalists were listed in a press release from Google....
Oregon Libraries Goes 24/7 With Free Online Information Service
L-net, a free online information service offered by Oregon libraries, is now available 24/7 to any resident of Oregon. It's available via http://www.oregonlibraries.net. Eighteen libaries across the state (including university, public, and school libaries) are participating....
Continue reading "Oregon Libraries Goes 24/7 With Free Online Information Service" » October 09, 2004Word of the Day: Nerdstick
Nerdstick: those little USB-based portable hard drives, usually kept on a keychain or lanyard. Gimmie your nerdstick and I'll save you a copy of the Powerpoint presenation....
October 08, 2004Google Announces Google SMS
Google announced yesterday Google SMS, a way for people with SMS-enabled phones to access Google information. More details on it are available at http://sms.google.com . After some goofing around and an uninformative call to my provider's technical support, I got...
Another Searchable Subject Index of Blog-Related Sites
I know, I know. I could sit here all day and do writeups of blog-related Web sites. But the reason I'm choosing to cover LS Blogs ( http://www.lsblogs.com/ ) is their nice blog directories/search engines category. The listing of Weblogs...
Continue reading "Another Searchable Subject Index of Blog-Related Sites" » October 07, 2004Couple of Feedster Notes
A long time ago, I set up a couple of Feedster e-mail alerts (learn more at http://www.feedster.com ) and I got them for a while and then stopped getting them. I wondered about that, but soon forgot about it. A...
Atomz Makes Some Changes
Atomz Express Search Sevice, the free site index service from Atomz ( http://www.atomz.com ), has made some changes to their service. The free service, Atomz Express, now indexes 750 pages, up from 500. That's a large increase though it may...
October 06, 2004User-Guided Search Refining in Google
Despite the fact that the Google API hasn't been updated in over two years, people keep doing Cool Things with it. The latest Cool Thing I've seen is the very nice MyGoogleSearch ( http://www.mygooglesearch.com/ ). The idea behind this hack...
Slashdot Launches a Politics Site
Slashdot has announced Politics.Slashdot.Org ( http://politics.slashdot.org ), which as you might expect covers political stories (the newest one at this writing is Your Rights Online: LP files Suit To Stop State Funding Of 3rd Debate). Tagline: "Politics for Nerds. Your...
RSS Feeds at FindArticles.com
Last June, I mentioned that article search engine FindArticles ( http://www.findarticles.com ) had added sort by date and some other nifty features and made me a happy search wonk (article at http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001738.shtml .) My last line of the article was...
MSN's Tech Preview is Back
At the end of July I reviewed MSN's first tech preview for their new search engine. I wasn't impressed. (Man, I'm getting crabby. Hey you kids, get off my lawn! Where's my Geritol?!) Now there's another preview available at http://techpreview.search.msn.com/...
Google Print, Google Print, Argh Argh Argh
Since I got back from Web Search University I have been buried in sites and resources to review. I despair of catching up. And they keep piling on, as evidenced by the launch of Google Print. But if all the...
Continue reading "Google Print, Google Print, Argh Argh Argh" » GMail (and Hotmail and Yahoo) Icon Generator
Make an icon for your e-mail address in Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo Mail. Niftee....
Continue reading "GMail (and Hotmail and Yahoo) Icon Generator" » October 05, 2004Yahoo Gets A Front-Page Redesign, Gives RSS Big Hug
I started using RSS in January 2000 after Blake Carver sent me a exasperated e-mail asking why, for heaven's sake, I wasn't using it. Surely, he noted, I could see that RSS was the greatest thing since sliced soap. (He...
Continue reading "Yahoo Gets A Front-Page Redesign, Gives RSS Big Hug" » Clush Offers Option for Meaning-Based Search
It's sorta clustering, but it looks more to me like the old "concept" or meaning-based searches for the late 90s, ala Oingo and Simpli. The engine is called Clush and the location is http://www.clush.com . What color there is on...
Continue reading "Clush Offers Option for Meaning-Based Search" » Site Problems
We've been having server problems, but we're back....
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