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First Google got rid of their 10-word query limit (it's now 32 words, see www.researchbuzz.org/what_happened_to_googles_tenword_query_limit.shtml for details) and now it appears to me that they're indexing more of an HTML file. Google, is this a constant series of improvements and...
Continue reading "Has Google Dropped Their 101K Cache Limit?" » Blog for the Google Adwords API
Nelson Minar and Josh McFarland have started a Weblog for the Google Adwords API. It's available at http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/ but unfortunately there's only one entry at the moment. Sigh ... another one to sling into the feed reader......
PatentCafe Creates Search for IBM OSS Patent Collection
Patent search engine PatentCafe has announced a new Open Source Software Patent Search Engine, which will be devoted to patents that have been released to open source and made available to software developers. The patent search engine has been initially...
Continue reading "PatentCafe Creates Search for IBM OSS Patent Collection" » January 28, 2005Directory of Podcasts
What's a podcast? A podcast is an Internet audio program made available so you can listen to it on a portable audio device, like your iPod, thus the name podcast. However you don't have to have an iPod to listen...
How To Sleep in an Airport
You've made your reservations, you've turned up on time, you've taken your shoes off when the nice security people asked you to, you've provided your id, your ticket, and a sample of skin off the back of your neck --...
Goobering Up the Site
I did a pretty serious upgrade to the site last night; the URLs have been changed so that they're title-based instead of number-based. At the same time the old number-based URLs will still function. However, as I was upgrading I...
January 26, 2005Official Documents of the UN Now Free
Preesh to Web4Lib to the pointer that the Official Documents of the United Nations are now available for free. The documents are available at http://documents.un.org/welcome.asp?language=E . ......
What's New At LLRX
Plenty of new stuff available at LLRX, including Deep Web Research 2005 ( http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2005.htm ), Research RoundUp: Business Filings Databases -- Updated ( http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup29.htm ), and FOIA Facts: Making Effective FOIA Requests ( http://www.llrx.com/columns/foia17.htm ). There's always plenty to see...
Library of Congress Announces September 11 Documentary Project Presentation
The Library of Congress's American Folklife Center has announced a new presentation, The September 11, 2001 Documentary Project, available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/ . Instead of a media archive, this is an archive of the reactions of people in the months that...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Announces September 11 Documentary Project Presentation" » January 25, 2005Five Years Worth of Boing Boing
Boing Boing is celebrating their anniversary by releasing all five years worth of their content -- over 17,000 entries -- in Movable Type export format. Isn't that great? You can download it from http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/21/five_years_worth_of_.html . There are some wonderful links...
The NOFOLLOW Roundup -- Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc.
The NOFOLLOW news has been floating around for a few days, but I wanted to wait for some things to shake out before I covered it. I figure it's as shaken as it's going to be for now, so away...
Continue reading "The NOFOLLOW Roundup -- Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc." » This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra
Every week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll get news and resources that you won't find in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article interrupts the information traps series to look at the many ways you can make...
Yup, Google Launches Video Search
Google has quietly added a video search to their labs. The labs are at http://labs.google.com , the video search is at http://video.google.com/ . And as always, the interface is simple; a query box and that's about it. I did a...
January 24, 2005A Collection of Digitized Books About Books
Oak Knoll Press has put together a collection of digital books about -- books. These books cover bookbinding, collecting, design, illustration, etc. The collection is free and available at http://www.oakknoll.com/digitalbooks.php . Some of the books appear to be hosted by...
Continue reading "A Collection of Digitized Books About Books" » January 21, 2005Spotting Exotic Cars, the Online Database
You love those new groovy sleek cars that might cost more than your house. But, as someone has noticed, most of the images of them are from showrooms and carefully-arranged photo shoots. If you're more interested in "candid" shots of...
Continue reading "Spotting Exotic Cars, the Online Database" » Going Back to the Source -- The Dewey Errors List
An article at LISNews mentions the DEWEYERROR , which is described this way: "Do you, or does your library, routinely accept Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) numbers from Library of Congress (LC) catalog records without checking them first? Or, do you...
Continue reading "Going Back to the Source -- The Dewey Errors List" » Google Releasing an API for Google AdWords?
Silicon Valley Watcher is reporting ( http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/01/scoop_google_to.php ) that Google is planning to release an AdWords API to AdWords advertisers (not to the publishers who put Google ads on their sites, of which I am one.) From the story:...
Continue reading "Google Releasing an API for Google AdWords?" » Database of Baby Names
Don't know what to name your kid? Are you all at sea since Gwyneth Paltrow named her child Apple? Visit Think Baby Names ( http://www.thinkbabynames.com ) for a dose of inspiration. You can browse the names alphabetically, and you can...
January 20, 2005Yahoo Introduces A Ticker
Yahoo has announced a new product in their technology initiative, the My Yahoo! Ticker Beta, available at http://next.yahoo.com . The ticker sits on your desktop and provides you ticker-access to your My Yahoo content, which includes the usual portal stuff...
Picasa Blog
Hey, did you know there was a Picasa 2 blog at http://picasa2.blogspot.com? Yeah, me neither. Bit thin on content at the moment....
MSN Releases New Country Versions of NewsBot
Thanks to the SEW blog for the pointer: apparently MSN has released Australian and Canadian versions of Newsbot. The more the merrier! See the announcement at http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050119-135052 ....
Continue reading "MSN Releases New Country Versions of NewsBot" » Amazon Web Services Team Has Its Own Blog
The Amazon Web Services team has its own blog at http://aws.typepad.com/. Very information rich -- absolutely one for my RSS reader....
Continue reading "Amazon Web Services Team Has Its Own Blog" » What's Ahead for Looksmart?
Search Engine Journal has a good roundup of Looksmart's missteps as well as some of the possibilities for the future....
What Happened to Google's Ten-Word Query Limit?
Has Google tanked their ten-word query limit? A search for one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve: Sample Google Search Gets over four million results. But search for one two three four five six seven...
Continue reading "What Happened to Google's Ten-Word Query Limit?" » January 18, 2005Bookshare.org Gets Up to Over 20,000 Titles
Bookshare.org, a group that collects digital books for the visually impaired, has announced that its online collection is up to over 20,000 titles. The site's available at http://www.bookshare.org . Among the materials available here are Newberry award winners from 1922...
Continue reading "Bookshare.org Gets Up to Over 20,000 Titles" » HighBeam Goes Free For A Week
HighBeam Research has announced that their online research service will be free for a week -- from January 24 to January 28 -- to celebrate the first anniversary of the service. It's available at http://www.highbeam.com . The HighBeam service is...
Rocketinfo Adds Content to Database
News search engine Rocketinfo (if that doesn't sound familiar maybe "Rocketnews" will ring a chime) has added a bunch of television broadcast content to their database. The content comes from local affiliates for ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. You can...
askSam Puts Sarbanes-Oxley Into Database
Database company askSam has put the Sarbanes-Oxley act into a freely-available database, available at http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/Sarbanes/ . You'll need to either have the askSam software or the free askSam reader to download it....
Continue reading "askSam Puts Sarbanes-Oxley Into Database" » January 17, 2005Building Research Tools With Google for Dummies
Did Google Hacks not fill you with enough Googly Goodness? Check out Building Research Tools with Google for Dummies. Author Harold Davis has a companion site available at http://www.braintique.com/research/ . The site's got some tools available, some downloads, and some...
Continue reading "Building Research Tools With Google for Dummies" » From Here to Bloggernity
No no no, you can't get enough of the Weblog directories. To prove it go visit Bloggernity at http://www.bloggernity.com/ . This site is a searchable subject index of 'blogs from Art and Photography Blogs to Writers Blogs (and there's at...
A New Search Engine For Finding Distance Learning Classes
If you're interested in, y'know, getting an actual real online application and not answering some spaham about a prestigious degree from a non-accredited university, check out SearchForClasses.com at http://www.searchforclasses.com . The site is organized between virtual and campus-based schools. Choose...
Continue reading "A New Search Engine For Finding Distance Learning Classes" » January 15, 2005Blogging an Egyptian Dig
Johns Hopkins University archaeologists have set up a site to blog their progress at four different digs in Egypt. The site is available at http://www.jhu.edu/~neareast/egypttoday.html. The coverage is supposed to start "around January 16", so there isn't anything available yet,...
Submit Your RSS Feed to 15 Places at a Time
Submit your RSS feed to 15 places at a time, via FeedSubmitter, available free at http://thomaskorte.com/feedsubmitter/. Ta Danny....
Continue reading "Submit Your RSS Feed to 15 Places at a Time" » Yep, There Was a Google / GMail Bug
Yes, there was a GMail Bug -- but it's been fixed already .......
Stepping Around Google Hacks
As I understand it, the reason O'Reilly called the "Hacks" series the "Hacks" series was to reclaim the word, noting that "hackers" were people who tried to do nifty stuff with hardware and software, not people who broke into networks...
Whole Grain Bread Recipe Collections
When the new dietary guidelines were announced, I muttered to myself, "This'll make the press wires go banonkers." And it did. One of the releases relevant to ResearchBuzz was the announcement the of Fleischmann's Yeast Goodfibes site, a collection of...
January 14, 2005Google's New Mini Search Appliance
Google's announced the new Google Mini on their blog. There's a page on it at http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/; Google describes it as " a hardware and software search appliance that offers your company the power and productivity of Google search." It indexes...
Chris Sherman's Groovy Search Gizmos
Chris Sherman notes three cool search gizmos over at SearchDay. I really like the Whois plugin and the really nice "Printer Friendly" bookmarklet....
MSN Offering XML Feeds of Web Searches
I could have made all kinds of predictions about what the new MSN search was going to offer, but a fairly open and communicative design team would not have been at the top of my list (sorry Microsoft!) But I...
January 13, 2005Yahoo Finance RSS Feeds Are Back In Business
Woo-hoo! Yahoo Finance' RSS feeds, first cheered about in ResearchBuzz a couple of years ago (really? A couple of years ago? Cripes) have come back, as described in Jeremy Zawodny's blog at http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/003924.html . The old ones, as I remember...
Continue reading "Yahoo Finance RSS Feeds Are Back In Business" » January 12, 2005Google News Boo-Boo
I am putting this here so I don't have to remember it later. Google News has a boo-boo. I wanted to double-check the source name for PRNewswire. The "source name" is the name you have to use with the source:...
Useful Meta-Interface Search Engine: MrSapo
I know a search engine that gathers results from many other search engines is called a meta-search engine. However I don't know what it's called when a site gathers many interfaces via a frame to allow you to do a...
Continue reading "Useful Meta-Interface Search Engine: MrSapo" » PubSub Launches Sidebar for Firefox
PubSub is now offering a sidebar that's compatible with Firefox. (It's also available for Internet Explorer, if you must.) You can get it at http://www.pubsub.com/downloads.php . PubSub is a monitoring service that can monitor Weblogs, newsgroups, EDGAR filings, airport delays,...
January 11, 2005Variety of Civil War Maps Now Available Online
The Library of Congress has posted a large number of Civil War maps online. The collection is not complete -- eventually it'll contain selections from the over 2200 Civil War maps and over 70 atlases owned by the LOC --...
Continue reading "Variety of Civil War Maps Now Available Online" » VisitorVille Tracks Users From Thousands of Companies
When I heard about VisitorVille, I was a bit surprised. How could a company be gathering information on the surfing habits of so many people? Turns out the information comes from a meta-database that VisitorVille maintains that holds visitor records...
Continue reading "VisitorVille Tracks Users From Thousands of Companies" » January 10, 2005New Business Search Engine Out of Iceland
There's a new search engine that combines business reference with business searching and a business directory. I confess I wasn't looking for innovation out of Hnifsdalur, Iceland, but FexIT, at http://www.FexIT.com, isn't half-bad. The front page of the site is...
Continue reading "New Business Search Engine Out of Iceland" » Technorati Contest: More Developer Winnahs
I was in CompUSA the other day reflecting that there were so many cool little apps circulating online that it seemed less and less necessary to buy boxes with disks in them. And then I come home and find out...
Continue reading "Technorati Contest: More Developer Winnahs" » January 08, 2005RSS Promoting Bargains
There's a new mailing list for sharing information about bargain-shopping RSS feeds. Check it out at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RSSBargains....
Gigablast Hits a Billion
Congratulations to search engine Gigablast! They've hit a billion pages in their index. Wonder if that has anything to do with their new site indexing service. Well done GB people.....
January 07, 2005Blog on Contextual Advertising
If you're interested in Google's contextual advertising (like Google's text ads) you might find the Jensense blog (http://www.jensense.com/ interesting. Doesn't look like it updates every day, but the posts are extensive and thoughtful....
Quick Rundown of Useful Google Links
There's a quick rundown of useful Google links at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001208.html. Sections here include patents, tools, and Froogle. A nice introduction....
Let Me Tell You About My Cat
I have two cats. They are, as all cats are to their owners, adorable. Periodically I have to resist inflicting upon you my stories about my cats hiding frozen blueberries in my shoe or falling into the toilet at 2am...
SideStep, Yet Another Travel Search Engine
SideStep has apparently had a downloadable toolbar for a while now, but now they've got a Web-based travel search engine that doesn't require a toolbar. You can check it out at http://www.sidestep.com . Some of the recent travel search tools...
Continue reading "SideStep, Yet Another Travel Search Engine" » What Fahree Means
A reader just e-mailed me asking what fahree means. "Fahree" is my way of spelling free so that spam filters don't beat my newsletter to a pulp....
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