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Man, I could have used this at work about a month ago. It's a search engine for meeting venues containing information on almost 18,000 resources. It's called Eventective (and now watch me misspell it a million times) and it's at...
State of Louisiana Offers Information about Expertise, Property
The state of Louisiana has launched AccessLouisiana, a site for finding information about available commercial property in Louisiana, businesses, products, and services, and experts. It's available at http://www.accesslouisiana.com ....
Continue reading "State of Louisiana Offers Information about Expertise, Property" » IceRocket Has Some New Searches
IceRocket, last mentioned in ResearchBuzz in August has a few new searches you might find of interest....
March 29, 2005Google Acquires Urchin
The AP is announcing this morning that Google has acquired Urchin Software. Urchin, as you may know, makes software for Web traffic analysis. Blake mentioned it in his CiL speech as his favorite traffic analysis software if I remember it...
Topic Hunter Meta Search In Several Different Categories
I am generally not a big fan of meta-search engines, but Topic Hunter isn't bad. Actually it's not what I consider a meta-search engine -- meta-search engines, to me, aggregate results from a variety of resources. Instead Topic Hunter points...
Continue reading "Topic Hunter Meta Search In Several Different Categories" » Yahoo Launches Search for Creative Commons Content
Yahoo has announced a new search (in beta, natch) that searches the Web exclusively for content that's got a creative commons license. You can try it at http://search.yahoo.com/cc . The search is a plain Web box with two checkboxes: "Find...
Continue reading "Yahoo Launches Search for Creative Commons Content" » March 28, 2005Internships in Michigan
The state of Michigan has launched a new database of over 400 internship opportunities in Michigan at http://www.michigan.gov/miintern . The internship search page is at http://www.michworks.org/mtb/pages/seeker/search/EmplInternshipSearchCriteria.jsp and allows one to search by employer name, county, or initial. I looked at...
Jeeves Gets a New Bertie, Named Barry
As everybody and their cat has heard by now, Ask Jeeves ( http://www.ask.com ) has been bought. And who has bought them? Why, none other than InterActive Corp., headed by Barry Diller. IAC already owns a bunch of Internet properties...
Web Ransom Notes
Cheers to Library Tetronics for pointing me to the Web ransom note, built with the Yahoo API. It's available at http://blog.outer-court.com/yahoo/letters.php5 . Actually it's called Web of Letters. Enter your text and it gets letter images of Yahoo and makes...
Yahoo Desktop Search Adds A Couple of Formats
Yahoo Desktop Search ( http://desktop.yahoo.com/ ) has added a couple of new searchable formats to its beta. The new formats are Yahoo Address Book and Yahoo Internet Messenger. YDS in toto searches over 200 formats, from the common (PDF) to...
Continue reading "Yahoo Desktop Search Adds A Couple of Formats" » March 27, 2005Database of Travel Locations for Metal Music
My experience with metal includes only a little bit of Metallica and playing Yngwie Malmsteen's "Rising Force" a zillion times back in my younger loud-music days. (Though vedic metal sounds pretty interesting ... any recommendations?) However, if you're into metal,...
Continue reading "Database of Travel Locations for Metal Music" » Okapiland Combines Yahoo, Google, Technorati APIs
I haven't tried this yet but it looks intriguing enough that I'll tell you about it. Okapiland Explorer, available at http://www.okapiland.com/index.html , is a downloadable product that combines a Web search utility, RSS reader, and news aggregator. It does this...
Continue reading "Okapiland Combines Yahoo, Google, Technorati APIs" » Some Updates to Yahoo's FareChase
Yahoo's travel search engine, FareChase, last mentioned and bitterly complained about in September has had some updates and enhancements. It's available at http://farechase.yahoo.com . Among the improvements is the fact that it now supports other browsers besides IE, including Firefox....
March 23, 2005Science.gov Offers Alert Service
Science.Gov has begun a new e-mail based alert service, which you can access at their home page: http://www.science.gov . If you don't have an account on the Science.gov site, you'll have to register -- registration requires only a user name,...
Gigablast Adds Related Pages Feature
Gigablast ( http://www.gigablast.com ) which is up to 1.5 billion pages in its index holy cow, has announced a new "related pages" feature. I would have thought that pages related to a search term would be, oh, I don't know...
The NYPL Digital Gallery
I was interested in covering the New York Public Library Digital Gallery, but every time I tried to visit it ran very sloooooowly which makes it tough to do a writeup. But thanks to a writeup in the Christian Science...
Computers in Libraries -- Connecticut Avenue Besides the Phone
To balance out the picture of the horrible phone I took some pictures of nice things on Connecticut Avenue. Connecticut Avenue is a great place to walk up and down -- there are enough things to see that you don't...
Continue reading "Computers in Libraries -- Connecticut Avenue Besides the Phone" » Computers in Libraries -- Search Engine Update
Let me preface this writeup by saying I'm a big Chris Sherman fan. We've known each other virtually for years, and it was a treat to meet him last year. And I always like to attend his sessions and hear...
Continue reading "Computers in Libraries -- Search Engine Update" » March 22, 2005American Theatre Wing Makes Videos Available
The American Theatre Wing's "Working in the Theatre" seminars, saved as televised panel discussions, are now available as free online streaming video, at http://americantheatrewing.org/video-WIT.php . Apparently the last ten years of seminars are available, and it looks like there are...
Continue reading "American Theatre Wing Makes Videos Available" » Vivisimo Adds a Gov Tab at Clusty.com
Meta-search engine Vivisimo ( http://www.vivisimo.com ) has added a Gov tab to its clustered search engine, Clusty ( http://www.clusty.com ). The new Gov search is available at http://gov.clusty.com/ . According to the Web site here's what Clusty searches: " It...
Computers in Libraries -- Personas Keynote
First of all, if you ever go to a conference and you get a chance to listen to Stephen Abram speak, take it. Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 dollars. He's a thoughtful, articulate, and funny speaker. You...
Continue reading "Computers in Libraries -- Personas Keynote" » Computers in Libraries -- Collaborative Blogging
Blake Carver, he of LISNews.com and someone of whom I've been a fan for many years, did the last track A session on Thursday about collaborative blogging. Actually the presentation was more of an overview of how he got LISNews...
Continue reading "Computers in Libraries -- Collaborative Blogging" » March 20, 2005I Have a Hundred Billion Things To Post
Wading through my umpy thousand messages, and seeing that I have a loooooot to talk about. I got a lot of press releases and announcements to read, but one search engine was conspicuous by its absence.... If someone knows who...
Continue reading "I Have a Hundred Billion Things To Post" » March 18, 2005Computers in Libraries -- Friday Musings
The network at the hotel has been having some outages, and TextEdit just ate the first draft of this early Friday report, so it seems that my real time blogging won't be quite as real as I hoped it would...
Continue reading "Computers in Libraries -- Friday Musings" » March 17, 2005Computers in Libraries: Keeping Up
Gary Price, Genie Tyburski, and Steven Cohen talked about keeping up in "Tips for Keeping Up: Expert Panel" that was the last item on Track A on Wednesday. (Track A is Information Discovery and Search). It was interesting to see...
Computers in Libraries -- Mary Ellen Bates
There are people you want to hang out with because they're nice, and people you want to hang out with because they're cool, and there are people you want to hang out with because they're knowledgeable. Mary Ellen Bates manages...
Continue reading "Computers in Libraries -- Mary Ellen Bates" » Computers in Libraries -- Wednesday
I went to four sessions yesterday in addition to the keynote and went to the dead technologies night session, and I wonder why I'm tired when I get to the room and don't want to blog? Hmmmm... Anyway, yesterday was...
March 16, 2005Computers in Libraries -- Wednesday Keynote
So here I am sitting in the concourse at the Computers in Libraries conference, where there are eight million people and a very nice bottle of Nantucket Nectar -- half lemonade and half iced tea. Actually I exaggerate a bit....
Continue reading "Computers in Libraries -- Wednesday Keynote" » Google Announces Google Local Business Center
Google has announced the Google Local Business Center, which is a tool for businesses to add or update their listings in Google Local. I was wondering when/if they'd offer something like this. You can get to it at http://www.google.com/local/add ....
Continue reading "Google Announces Google Local Business Center" » March 15, 2005Ask Jeeves Climbs on Firefox Bus
Hey hey! The Ask Jeeves toolbar is now available for Firefox. Grab it at http://sp.ask.com/docs/toolbar/moz/index.html....
Google Print Facing Copyright Woes at Harvard?
The Harvard Crimson is reporting (http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article506429.html that some publishers are objecting to the Google plan to digitize books and put them online. From the article. "While Google may upload some of Harvard’s copyrighted works, they will not yet be displayed,...
Continue reading "Google Print Facing Copyright Woes at Harvard?" » What is Google X?
Can the non-Mac people get to the new Google Labs experiment, Google X, at http://labs.google.com/googlex/? It looks like a regular Google page except that there's a Mac OS X-like "dock" across the top of the query box that allows the...
Here at CIL. Hi!
There are two types of people in the world: those who will happily sing along with the Oak Ridge Boys' "Elvira" whenever they hear it on the radio ("Hmm pappa hmm pappa hmm pappa maow maow") and those who will...
Test
Nothing to see here. Just testing a new connection. Hi!...
March 14, 2005OED Adds, Revises Over 2000 Entries
The Oxford English Dictionary added or revised over 2000 entries in its dictionary last week. New entries include scrunchie, shroom, spaz, fuzzy dice, and creepy-peepy. You can get the full list of new and revised entries at http://dictionary.oed.com/help/updates/ ....
Put a Little Birdhouse Network In Your Soul
Not to put too fine a point on it, say I'm the only -- oh, never mind. Cornell has a set of bird cams available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/birdhouse/nestboxcam/index.html , (featuring some adorable barn owls.) Not all the cameras are active at...
Continue reading "Put a Little Birdhouse Network In Your Soul" » Gigablast Looking for Funding
Gigablast has a page on its Web site that mentions http://www.gigablast.com/vc.html it is looking for funding. From the Web page: "Many of the things we want to do, unfortunately, require hardware and personnel investments beyond our current income so we...
March 10, 2005More Images at the South Australiana Database
The State Library of South Australia has added over 19,000 images to its South Australiana Database. These new images come from the Arthur Searcy collection. Arthur Searcy took photographs not only in Australia, but around the world in the first...
Continue reading "More Images at the South Australiana Database" » Customizing the Google News Display
Google's just added a new feature to its news page that allows you to customize the layout. Check out the page at http://news.google.com/ , over on the right. As you can see you now have the option to drag the...
Yahoo Publisher Network?
What the heck is the Yahoo Publisher Network?. Is there an AdSense competitor on the way? hmmmmmm?...
March 09, 2005Brainboost Unveils New Version of Its Search Engine
Brainboost, which has the cutest logo I've seen in a while, yesterday announced a new version of its "Answer Engine," which you might call a natural language search engine. It's available at http://www.brainboost.com . The front page has in addition...
Continue reading "Brainboost Unveils New Version of Its Search Engine" » Google Suggest in Japanese
Google Labs is now pointing to a Japanese version of Google Suggest....
Directory of Corporate RSS Feeds
If you want to get a little beyond the idea of RSS feeds for each of the eight bazillion independent 'blogs out there, check out Nooked, which is for corporate RSS feeds and is searchable and browsable. It's available at...
March 08, 2005A Search Engine for Brand Names
Wondering about the "official" site for a brand or product? Sometimes when trying to find such a thing online less is more. Such is the case with VisioBrand, a search engine/directory for only "official" brand sites. It's available at http://www.visiobrand.com...
This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra
Every week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll find news and resources that you won't find in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article: My Friend Flickr. You can learn more about ResearchBuzz Extra at http://www.researchbuzz.com/buzzex.shtml ....
RSS Feeds From Missouri
While I was double-checking the information on the naturalization cards from Saint Louis, I noticed that the state of Missouri does in fact have a very nice set of RSS feeds! You can get to them from the Missouri more...
March 07, 2005Collection of Naturalization Cards from Saint Louis
The Saint Louis Genealogical Society now has online a collection of naturalization cards from Saint Louis, Missouri, 1816-1906. This collection includes over 93,000 records and is available at http://stlgs.org/NatSearch.aspx . The cards are for naturalizations that took place in Saint...
Continue reading "Collection of Naturalization Cards from Saint Louis" » It's Like Google Suggest, Only for Amazon
I couldn't get this to work in my version of Opera (which I need to update) so if you're an Opera user, fire up Firefox. Francis Shanahan has launched Zuggest, which is like Google Suggest only it uses Amazon. It's...
Continue reading "It's Like Google Suggest, Only for Amazon" » Jamaica Gleaner Archives Available Online
The Jamaica Gleaner has announced ( http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20050228/lead/lead2.html ) that their archives are now available online. Their archives go back to 1834 -- that's over 170 years of archives. Whew. You can get to them by logging on to http://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com ....
Continue reading "Jamaica Gleaner Archives Available Online" » Some Updates for Google Desktop
A few things going on with Google Desktop. First of all if you look at Google Labs ( http://labs.google.com ) you'll note that Google Desktop has now "graduated" from the Labs. And with that comes some new features, which you...
Gee, I Never Thought Of It Like That
"Yahoo is Jan to Google's Marsha." -- Ernie, Little. Yellow. Different. (And Yahoo Employee.) Now I have this picture in my head of Jeremy yelling "Marsha Marsha Marsha!" The last few neurons I had just curled up in the corner...
March 05, 2005People Are Using More Than One Search Engine
Nielsen//NetRatings sent out what was to me a very heartening press release on February 28. The press release stated that "a minority of searchers exclusively use only one of the top three search engines-Google Search, Yahoo! Search and MSN Search."...
Continue reading "People Are Using More Than One Search Engine" » Merriam-Webster Makes Plug-Is for Firefox
Firefox just keeps on foxing. Merriam-Webster has announced that they've added online tools for Firefox. The new tools are available at http://www.merriam-webster.com/firefox/ . They include a search box plug-in, a right-click search, and a sidebar....
Continue reading "Merriam-Webster Makes Plug-Is for Firefox" » Yahoo's Ten Year Retrospective
Yahoo's got a ten-year retrospective available on its Web site. It's a Flash-based presentation at http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/. (There's also an HTML version -- look for it at the bottom of the page.) There are a hundred squares. Click on a square...
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