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December 31, 2004This Is True Puts Its Archives OnlineI've been reading This Is True for ages. It's a free weekly newsletter (a paid version is also available) that contains summaries of odd or unusual news stories that have...Read the rest of entry "This Is True Puts Its Archives Online " here. An Enormous Collection of Crossword PuzzlesYou like crossword puzzles? You REALLY like crossword puzzles? How about over 32,000 of them? That's what you'll find at http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/ . The crossword puzzles are divided up into several...Read the rest of entry "An Enormous Collection of Crossword Puzzles" here. Bacon's Is Going to Start Tracking BlogsAccording to MediaPost, Bacon's will start tracking what it considers to be the most reputable 'blogs in 2005. All 250 of them. They've only released the names of three of...Read the rest of entry "Bacon's Is Going to Start Tracking Blogs" here. December 30, 2004Feedster Contest -- We Have (Several) WinnahsAs I mentioned a while ago, Feedster had a developer content going on. You can get the details at http://www.feedster.com/contest.php . Even cooler, you can get a list of the...Read the rest of entry "Feedster Contest -- We Have (Several) Winnahs" here. Tracking UPS Packages Via an RSS FeedSuperJason has developed a tool for tracking UPS packages via an RSS feed. He explains all and points to a permanent home for the tool at http://superjason.com/archive/2004/11/28/272.aspx. Very nice, Jason....Read the rest of entry "Tracking UPS Packages Via an RSS Feed" here. National Library of Scotland RSS FeedThe National Library of Scotland has an RSS Feed at http://www.nls.uk/news/feed.xml. Woooooooot....Read the rest of entry "National Library of Scotland RSS Feed" here. Travel Information Without Travel Sales PitchesI get so many announcements about sites which are designed to sell things, or to be roundups for e-commerce information, that's it's startling (and refreshing) to find out about a...Read the rest of entry "Travel Information Without Travel Sales Pitches" here. Steven Moves over to PubSubSteven of Library Stuff will be working at PubSub starting in 2005. Congrats on the job change, Steven! Now get out there and be all the RSS evangelist you can...December 29, 2004Search Engine/Blogosphere Response to the Earthquake/TsunamiA quick roundup of the resources available for assisting the victims of the earthquake/tsunami that occured Sunday in Asia: Google -- Information and donation links at http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html . Yahoo --...Read the rest of entry "Search Engine/Blogosphere Response to the Earthquake/Tsunami" here. Google Scholar has a New Advanced SearchHat tip to Gary "Resource Shelf" Price for the pointer to Google Scholar's new advanced search, available at http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search . Using the advanced search you can search for articles written...Read the rest of entry "Google Scholar has a New Advanced Search " here. New Local Search Interface For Ask JeevesBetter late than never. Sigh. There's a new local search interface available at Ask Jeeves ( http://www.askjeeves.com .) You access it through the "Local" tab at the top of the...Read the rest of entry "New Local Search Interface For Ask Jeeves" here. December 28, 2004Library of Congress Releases World War I Rotogravures CollectionsThe Library of Congress has announced a new digital collection, "Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures." It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/ . Rotogravure, for those of you who missed that word...Read the rest of entry "Library of Congress Releases World War I Rotogravures Collections" here. Durl Shows You Who's Linking in Del.icio.usHat tip to Steven for the pointer to Durl, at http://tools.waglo.com/durl. Durl shows you everyone who's linking in del.icio.us to a particular URL (a specific URL, not a domain). It...Read the rest of entry "Durl Shows You Who's Linking in Del.icio.us" here. Massive Google Doodle ControversySomeone's taking the Google Doodle way too seriously. However, Google's taking them seriously right back. "Dude ... they made more snowballs, okay?" snicker....Read the rest of entry "Massive Google Doodle Controversy" here. Opera's Browser Hits Version ? BetaAs longtime readers of ResearchBuzz know I've been hitting the drum for Opera for a long time. And I used it exclusively for years. Nowadays I find my time being...Read the rest of entry "Opera's Browser Hits Version ? Beta " here. December 27, 2004Get Just Google Adwords ResultsWondering what ads Google has for a particular keyword? Do your search at http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks. You'll get JUST sponsored results. For interesting search results, try a keyword that's heavily in the...Read the rest of entry "Get Just Google Adwords Results " here. Internet Archive, Universities Team Up For a Digitized CollectionThings that make me go whee: Internet Archive and ten universities agree to team up and make their own online library of digitized books. Whee! You can get a nice...Read the rest of entry "Internet Archive, Universities Team Up For a Digitized Collection" here. Nifty Top Lists from GutenbergThe Gutenberg Project has a nifty set of top lists at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top. There's a list of the top books and top authors for the week, but also lists...Read the rest of entry "Nifty Top Lists from Gutenberg" here. Response to Brad Hill on Google AdWords AdsHi Brad! I liked Google for Dummies. I want to take a look at "Building Your Business with Google For Dummies"; it's currently on my miles-long reading list. I wanted...Read the rest of entry "Response to Brad Hill on Google AdWords Ads" here. MSN Whips Up a Wiki For their Search EngineMSN has whipped up a Wiki for their search engine; see their announcement about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2004/12/22/330001.aspx. The Wiki itself is available at http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MsnSearchFeedback. It is not well-populated yet, but...Read the rest of entry "MSN Whips Up a Wiki For their Search Engine" here. December 22, 2004TIME Magazine Archives Now Available on TIME.comTIME magazine has now made its 81 years of archives available, over 266,000 articles. The archives have their own domain at http://www.timearchive.com . The archive is keyword and date-searchable, with...Read the rest of entry "TIME Magazine Archives Now Available on TIME.com " here. Argus Digital Collection Indexed from 1894-2003I love it when someone submits a resource and I ask them to submit it again when it's a little further along and they actually DO -- over a year...Read the rest of entry "Argus Digital Collection Indexed from 1894-2003" here. December 21, 2004Using Google Scholar at Georgia State University LibraryThe Georgia State University Library has a very nice page on using Google Scholar at http://www.library.gsu.edu/googlescholar/. Find the reference in Google, find it locally, and if you need help consult...Read the rest of entry "Using Google Scholar at Georgia State University Library" here. Holiday Google DoodleHo ho ho, the new holiday Google Doodle is available at http://www.google.com/doodle9.html . Anyone else afraid those polar bears are going to reach for a Coke?...Supreme Court Case Previews Now AvailableThe Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School is now offering free previews of high-provile Supreme Court cases before the are argued and ruled on. The previews are available...Read the rest of entry "Supreme Court Case Previews Now Available" here. Google Suggest DissectedA nerd after my own heart dissected the Javascript behind Google Suggest. You can read his observations (and the over 80 comments thus far!) at http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-suggest-dissected.html....Gigablast Launches Lovely Lovely Topic Search ToolOh small search engines, I heart you. The other major searches engines seems to do things in big clumps, all launching the same types of features and software at the...Read the rest of entry "Gigablast Launches Lovely Lovely Topic Search Tool" here. New Search Engine: And Blingo Was Its Name-OThere's a new search engine called Blingo, now available at http://www.blingo.com/ . The twist to this site is that when you search you have a chance to win a price....Read the rest of entry "New Search Engine: And Blingo Was Its Name-O" here. December 20, 2004Hindu Group Launches Online Image LibraryThe Hindu Group has launched an online library of over 40,000 images, available immediately from http://www.thehinduimages.com . Though it's really designed as an e-commerce site, it's large enough, unique enough,...Read the rest of entry "Hindu Group Launches Online Image Library " here. Image Library of London Transportation System AvailableLondon's Transport Museum has an online library of over ten thousand pictures available at http://tinyurl.com/62kw2 (sorry, the original URL is terrible.) The pictures are searchable by keywords. They're also divided...Read the rest of entry "Image Library of London Transportation System Available " here. December 17, 2004It Blinded Me With Science SongsWere you looking for information on over 1700 songs of science and math, you want the MASSIVE database. The MASSIVE (Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere) database covers the...Read the rest of entry "It Blinded Me With Science Songs" here. Tne Encyclopedia of Fake BandsSure sure, you can go look up those bands that REALLY exist, but how about those bands which only exist in people's imaginations! Check out the Fakebandica, at http://www.fakebands.com/ ,...Read the rest of entry "Tne Encyclopedia of Fake Bands" here. December 16, 2004blinkx launches search for TVFire up some other browser than Opera and check it out, blinkx has launched a search engine for television programming. The new tool is called blinkx TV and it's available,...Read the rest of entry "blinkx launches search for TV" here. The Lycos Top 50 for 2004Lycos has its top 50 searches lists for 2004 at http://50.lycos.com . Today's list is the top men (Clay Aiken) tomorrow's list is the top women. There's also issues for...Yahoo's No-Query Limit, No For RealI've gotten a couple of e-mails from folks about Yahoo's No-Query Limit, about which I wrote at http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001944.shtml . They were wondering why the no-limit search works when they try...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo's No-Query Limit, No For Real " here. An Update On Yahoo's Video SearchThis afternoon one of the nice Yahoo people called me a with a brief update about the Yahoo Video Search, about which I wrote yesterday ( http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/002223.shtml ). I had...Read the rest of entry "An Update On Yahoo's Video Search " here. December 15, 2004Yahoo Launches Video Search, New RSS FormatI talk to PR people on the phone a fair amount. And the tone of the people I talk to ranges all the way from "I'm only doing this...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Launches Video Search, New RSS Format" here. Accoona, A New Search EngineThe new search engine is called Accoona, and it got a lot of press attention because former President Bill Clinton helped launch it ( http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1736894,00.asp ). Bill Clinton gets to...Read the rest of entry "Accoona, A New Search Engine " here. December 14, 2004Version 56 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography AvailableIt's up to version 56! It's the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography and it now contains information on over 2,275 articles, books, and other sources related to scholarly electronic publishing efforts...Read the rest of entry "Version 56 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available " here. Search in Two Languages with BabelplexNo, it's not Babelfish (though it does use Babelfish), it's Babelplex, a bilingual search service. It's available at http://babelplex.com/ . What it does is allow you to specify a query...Read the rest of entry "Search in Two Languages with Babelplex" here. Google Planning To Index Entire LibrariesFor a long time there have been rumors going around about Project Ocean, a project by Google to index all the pre-1923 content in the Stanford Library. (I'd call it...Read the rest of entry "Google Planning To Index Entire Libraries" here. December 13, 2004Newspapers With RSS FeedsA very nice list of 142 newspapers with RSS feeds. Those of you that think RSS is just for 'blogs, think again please....MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New Desktop SearchMicrosoft has announced the new MSN(R) Toolbar Suite, and I had no idea there was so much pent up demand to search the desktop, for crying out loud. The new...Read the rest of entry "MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New Desktop Search " here. Copernic Releases Firefox-Supportin' Copernic Desktop SearchFor those of you who aren't very excited by these desktop search products because they don't search the cache of the browser you actually use, check it out. Copernic has...Read the rest of entry "Copernic Releases Firefox-Supportin' Copernic Desktop Search" here. New Blog for ArchivistsThere's a new 'blog for archivists available at http://www.myunclesteve.com/drizzle. In his announcement, Steve Butzel describes the new 'blog thus: "DRIZZLE features news stories and commentary of interest to archivists, records...December 12, 2004Google Alphabet From A to WheePatrick Gaskill got clever after Google Suggest was released and checked to see the first word suggested after typing in a letter of the alphabet. This experiment spawned the Google...Read the rest of entry "Google Alphabet From A to Whee" here. MSN Teleconference TomorrowMSN has announced a teleconference for tomorrow and they're actually announcing it on their blog and inviting people to listen in. Woo. Too bad I'll be working and missing it....Vivisimo Clusters The BudgetPropburgers with proponionrings to Gary Price for the pointer to Vivisimo's new clustering of the US Federal Budget, at http://search.vivisimo.com/demos/budget05. A search for dancing found one result, a paragraph about...December 11, 2004New Blog On Digitization IssuesHat tip to Catalogablog for the pointer to digitizationblog, at http://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/ . It's a blog about digitization for libraries and allied institutions. Not updated every day but good content here....Read the rest of entry "New Blog On Digitization Issues" here. The RSS Feed! It Speaks to Me! It Says "Hi Patsyyyyy"(Yes! First Carol Burnett reference in a headline!) If you want your RSS feed as an MP3 file, check out FeedSpeaker -- blog at http://www.feedvert.com/FeedSpeaker/ . It's free but you'll...Read the rest of entry "The RSS Feed! It Speaks to Me! It Says "Hi Patsyyyyy"" here. Ping Moreover with Moreover's New Ping ServerFor those of you collecting places to ping when your weblog updates, add Moreover. They have a new ping server and instructions on how to use it at http://w.moreover.com/main_site/solutions/ping_server.html ....Read the rest of entry "Ping Moreover with Moreover's New Ping Server" here. December 09, 2004Google Has A New One for the Labs -- Google SuggestGoogle's Labs has popped out a new beta -- Google Suggest. Google Suggest looks like the regular Google search, except as you type in keywords Google -- surprise! -- tries...Read the rest of entry "Google Has A New One for the Labs -- Google Suggest" here. December 08, 2004New Google News CountriesThere are new countries/editions available for Google News: Argentina, Chile, Canada Français, México, Österreich, Schweiz and Suisse. As always, you can get to them from the edition listings at the...Blogdigger Now Offering Media SearchWhat is it with the media searching all of a sudden? Jiminy crickets. Blogdigger recently dropped me a note letting me know that Blogdigger is now offering a media search...Read the rest of entry "Blogdigger Now Offering Media Search" here. December 07, 2004Lilly Announces Clinical Trial RegistryEli Lilly and Company have announced a clinical trial registry which will post results from all Phase I through Phase IV clinical trials of Lilly's marketed products. At the moment,...Read the rest of entry "Lilly Announces Clinical Trial Registry " here. Georgia Tech Offers Moving Image Collection ProjectGeorgia Tech now has a project to catalog and in some cases offer moving images from collections around the world. The initial rollout is available at http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/ . There are...Read the rest of entry "Georgia Tech Offers Moving Image Collection Project " here. Google Makes Changes to the Site Flavored Search BoxGoogle has made a few changes to their site-flavored search box, which you can find at Google Labs ( http://labs.google.com ) or directly at http://www.google.com/services/siteflavored.html . This tool allows you...Read the rest of entry "Google Makes Changes to the Site Flavored Search Box" here. December 06, 2004Search for Keywords in Sets of LinksGoogle Blogoscoped has come up with a nifty thing which I think uses the Google API. It's available at http://blog.outer-court.com/neighborsearch/ . What you do is enter a keyword. Then you...Read the rest of entry "Search for Keywords in Sets of Links" here. Singingfish Launches New Search DestinationSingingfish has launched a new multimedia search which is now available at http://www.singingfish.com . Please note that Singingfish does not to my knowledge have anything to do with the recently-reviewed...Read the rest of entry "Singingfish Launches New Search Destination" here. YeahYeahYeah Another Blog Directory -- QuackTrackWell, they came up with a name I won't forget in a hurry, anyway. QuackTrack ( http://quacktrack.com/ ) is a searchable subject index for Weblogs -- as they put it...Read the rest of entry "YeahYeahYeah Another Blog Directory -- QuackTrack " here. December 02, 2004Seattle Municipal Archives Photograph CollectionSeattle's got a collection of over 45,000 municipal photographs and most of them are digitized and online! Who knew! Check out this old-school URL: http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/phot1.htm Searching allows you to specify...Read the rest of entry "Seattle Municipal Archives Photograph Collection" here. LexisNexis Launches LexisNexis AlaCarteLast week information provider LexisNexis announced LexisNexis AlaCarte!, a service for small businesses and independent professionals to use LexisNexis, um, ala carte. This new service will allow users to search...Read the rest of entry "LexisNexis Launches LexisNexis AlaCarte" here. MoreGoogle is Now LostGogglesAndreas dropped me a note to let me know he's been hit with the C&D stick, and MoreGoogle, which I covered in June, is now called http://lostgoggles.com. Same services, different...Read the rest of entry "MoreGoogle is Now LostGoggles" here. MSN Cranks Up A Blog ServiceMSN announced last week that they've set up a blog service called MSN Spaces. In addition, they're cranking out a beta version of the new MSN Messenger 7.0, and updates...December 01, 2004The Scotsman Launches a Digital ArchiveThe Scotsman has launched a digital archive of their newspaper going back to 1817 and going through 1900. Though it does cost to access articles, searching is fahree and there's...Read the rest of entry "The Scotsman Launches a Digital Archive" here. Online Database of Scots Texts AvailableIt's called SCOTS, and it stands for Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech. It includes about 400 texts from Scots to Scottish English. It was assembled by the Arts and...Read the rest of entry "Online Database of Scots Texts Available " here. RSS Generator for Amazon SearchesA nib tip to Nick Bradbury for the pointer to the Amazon RSS feed generator at http://www.oxus.net/amazon/. Here you may enter a search term and then the store you want...Read the rest of entry "RSS Generator for Amazon Searches" here. eWeek 2004 Search RoundupeWeek has a roundup of what happened in search in 2004. Get all the skinny at Story.news.yahoo.com. My prediction? You thought 2004 was something, 2005 is going to be even...Do You Have Any.... Music? No? Go Fish.If you're more interested in searching for media than text, try the new search engine GoFish, which claims to search 12 million media files. Media in this case includes ring...Read the rest of entry "Do You Have Any.... Music? No? Go Fish. " here. |
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