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« November 2004 | Main | January 2005 » December 31, 2004This Is True Puts Its Archives Online
I'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 taken place all over the world. If you want to...
An Enormous Collection of Crossword Puzzles
You 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 categories, including large, medium, small, and very small. The site...
Continue reading "An Enormous Collection of Crossword Puzzles" » Bacon's Is Going to Start Tracking Blogs
According 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 them, however. Are they talking general blogs, or specific ones?...
Continue reading "Bacon's Is Going to Start Tracking Blogs" » December 30, 2004Feedster Contest -- We Have (Several) Winnahs
As 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 contest entries at the same place and pointers to the...
Continue reading "Feedster Contest -- We Have (Several) Winnahs" » Tracking UPS Packages Via an RSS Feed
SuperJason 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. Thank you!...
National Library of Scotland RSS Feed
The National Library of Scotland has an RSS Feed at http://www.nls.uk/news/feed.xml. Woooooooot....
Travel Information Without Travel Sales Pitches
I 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 site that claims to *exclude* that kind of information from...
Continue reading "Travel Information Without Travel Sales Pitches" » Steven Moves over to PubSub
Steven 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 be. :->...
December 29, 2004Search Engine/Blogosphere Response to the Earthquake/Tsunami
A 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 -- News, how to help, and an rss feed at http://news.yahoo.com/asiadisaster...
Continue reading "Search Engine/Blogosphere Response to the Earthquake/Tsunami" » Google Scholar has a New Advanced Search
Hat 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 in a particular journal, by a particular author, or within...
Continue reading "Google Scholar has a New Advanced Search" » New Local Search Interface For Ask Jeeves
Better 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 page, which takes you to http://local.ask.com/local . The local section...
Continue reading "New Local Search Interface For Ask Jeeves" » December 28, 2004Library of Congress Releases World War I Rotogravures Collections
The 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 in English class, is "An intaglio printing process in which...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Releases World War I Rotogravures Collections" » Durl Shows You Who's Linking in Del.icio.us
Hat 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 then gives you those results plain and as an RSS...
Continue reading "Durl Shows You Who's Linking in Del.icio.us" » Massive Google Doodle Controversy
Someone's taking the Google Doodle way too seriously. However, Google's taking them seriously right back. "Dude ... they made more snowballs, okay?" snicker....
Opera's Browser Hits Version ? Beta
As 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 divided pretty equally between Opera and Firefox/Mozilla; there are some...
Hey, thanks Roger!
Welcome to the world of blogging. I hope you enjoy Web Search Garage....
December 27, 2004Get Just Google Adwords Results
Wondering 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 news at the moment, like, say, Celebrex. You'll get interesting...
Internet Archive, Universities Team Up For a Digitized Collection
Things 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 article on this turn of events at http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1160176 . From...
Continue reading "Internet Archive, Universities Team Up For a Digitized Collection" » Nifty Top Lists from Gutenberg
The 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 for the top books for the last three months or...
Response to Brad Hill on Google AdWords Ads
Hi 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 to respond to one of your posts at http://google.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000483024412/ where...
Continue reading "Response to Brad Hill on Google AdWords Ads" » MSN Whips Up a Wiki For their Search Engine
MSN 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 I like the section headings a lot. Doesn't look the...
Continue reading "MSN Whips Up a Wiki For their Search Engine" » December 22, 2004TIME Magazine Archives Now Available on TIME.com
TIME 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 an additional search for covers. A search for "Jimmy Carter"...
Continue reading "TIME Magazine Archives Now Available on TIME.com" » Argus Digital Collection Indexed from 1894-2003
I 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 later! Illinois Wesleyan University's newspaper, The Argus, has been published...
Continue reading "Argus Digital Collection Indexed from 1894-2003" » December 21, 2004Using Google Scholar at Georgia State University Library
The 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 your friendly library. Nicely done....
Continue reading "Using Google Scholar at Georgia State University Library" » Holiday Google Doodle
Ho 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 Available
The 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 without cost at http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/ and by fahree e-mail subscription....
Continue reading "Supreme Court Case Previews Now Available" » Google Suggest Dissected
A 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 Tool
Oh 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 same time (not that it's not good stuff, just a...
Continue reading "Gigablast Launches Lovely Lovely Topic Search Tool" » New Search Engine: And Blingo Was Its Name-O
There'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. This is giving me twitchy little reminders of iWon (remember...
Continue reading "New Search Engine: And Blingo Was Its Name-O" » December 20, 2004Hindu Group Launches Online Image Library
The 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, and provides enough photo detail that I decided to cover...
Continue reading "Hindu Group Launches Online Image Library" » Image Library of London Transportation System Available
London'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 into subjects. The subjects include underground construction, advertising, and the...
Continue reading "Image Library of London Transportation System Available" » December 17, 2004It Blinded Me With Science Songs
Were 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 silly to the sublime, the basic to the seriously advanced....
Tne Encyclopedia of Fake Bands
Sure 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/ , an encyclopedia of fake bands that appear in TV and...
December 16, 2004blinkx launches search for TV
Fire 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, strangely enough, at http://www.blinkx.tv . The beta tool recommends that...
The Lycos Top 50 for 2004
Lycos 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 top fads, and other lists, and a bit of commentary....
Yahoo's No-Query Limit, No For Real
I'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 it from my site, but not from when they try...
An Update On Yahoo's Video Search
This 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 asked in the writeup how they were discovering the video....
December 15, 2004Yahoo Launches Video Search, New RSS Format
I 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 until that Burger King gig comes through" to "Wait until...
Continue reading "Yahoo Launches Video Search, New RSS Format" » Accoona, A New Search Engine
The 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 launch a search engine and Whoopi Goldberg had to flog...
December 14, 2004Version 56 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available
It'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 online. The HTML version's at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html and the PDF version's...
Continue reading "Version 56 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available" » Search in Two Languages with Babelplex
No, 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 word in one language, and get the results for that...
Google Planning To Index Entire Libraries
For 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 a little stronger than a rumor since it was in...
Continue reading "Google Planning To Index Entire Libraries" » December 13, 2004Newspapers With RSS Feeds
A 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 Search
Microsoft 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 tool is free and is available at http://beta.toolbar.msn.com . The...
Continue reading "MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New Desktop Search" » Copernic Releases Firefox-Supportin' Copernic Desktop Search
For 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 released a new version of their Copernic Desktop Search. It...
Continue reading "Copernic Releases Firefox-Supportin' Copernic Desktop Search" » New Blog for Archivists
There'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 managers and other professionals. The point of DRIZZLE is not...
December 12, 2004Google Alphabet From A to Whee
Patrick 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 Alphabet at http://labs.patrickgaskill.com/googlealphabet/, from A is for Amazon to Z...
MSN Teleconference Tomorrow
MSN 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 Budget
Propburgers 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 the NEA....
December 11, 2004New Blog On Digitization Issues
Hat 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....
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 need to download a couple extra bits if you don't...
Continue reading "The RSS Feed! It Speaks to Me! It Says "Hi Patsyyyyy"" » Ping Moreover with Moreover's New Ping Server
For 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 . Those of you using Movable Type, just chunk http://api.moreover.com/ping into...
Continue reading "Ping Moreover with Moreover's New Ping Server" » December 09, 2004Google Has A New One for the Labs -- Google Suggest
Google'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 to guess what you could be typing. The really nifty...
Continue reading "Google Has A New One for the Labs -- Google Suggest" » December 08, 2004 | ||
