Yahoo Hacks Group on Flickr
Hat tip to Jeremy for the pointer to the Yahoo Hacks group on Flickr. It's available at http://www.flickr.com/groups/yahoohacks/. Nifty....
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« March 2005 | Main | May 2005 » April 30, 2005Google News Ranking Patent?
BetaNews reports on new patents filed by Google that indicate Google's plans to rank stories by source quality and credibility. Of course, they could also provide a source list and allow users to include or exclude certain types of media...
Mixing 360 and Flickr
Some very clever soul has mixed together Yahoo 360 and Flickr. Also available are instructions on how to make your own. Confidental to Alan: remember what I said about integrating Flickr with other Yahoo content? :->...
April 27, 2005Directory of Niche Sites
This was built to help Webmasters, but I think it's pretty groovy for researchers too so I'm going to cover it. The Incoming Links Development Guide and Directory, at http://www.incominglinks.com/ , lists niche sites with guidelines on how to become...
TVEyes Searching For Podcast Information
Broadcast search provider TVEyes has announced Podscope, which will search for words within audio, specifically podcasts. Yup folks, we got a search engine for finding words spoken within a podcast. Whee! It's in beta and is available at http://www.podscope.com/ ....
Continue reading "TVEyes Searching For Podcast Information" » Become Officially Launches
Search engine Become.com ( http://www.become.com ) has launched its official shopping index. Because it seems to be focused on product reviews (as opposed to buying stuff), because it doesn't require registration, and because it's so huge (3+ billion pages), I'm...
MSN Experimenting With Search Results Clustering
Yup, search result clustering is still hot, or at least warm. Now MSN is getting in on the act with a new clustering tool from their sandbox. You can check out SRC (Search Result Clustering) at http://wsm.directtaps.net/default.aspx . Run a...
Continue reading "MSN Experimenting With Search Results Clustering" » The Roger Reynolds Collection at the LOC
The Library of Congress has announced a new Web presentation called "The Roger Reynolds Collection at the Library of Congress", which is now available at http://www.loc.gov/rogerreynolds . Information here includes a photo gallery, list of works, discography, and interestingly enough...
Continue reading "The Roger Reynolds Collection at the LOC" » Google -- My Search History
Google's now getting into helping you keep up with your search history with the release of -- surprise! -- My Search History. All the skinny is now available at https://www.google.com/searchhistory/login . Sign in with your Google account (I think your...
April 22, 2005Encarta is not Wikipedia
No, Microsoft's Encarta reference service is not Wikipedia, but they're going to be experimenting with a feature that will allow anyone to make additions or changes to articles, according to an Associated Press story. Of course editors will review any...
April 20, 2005Get Notification of RSS Feed Updates With Feedbeep
You may be quite content just letting most of your RSS feeds sit in your feed reader until you get around to 'em. On the other hand, there may be feeds whose content updates you want to know immediately. In...
Continue reading "Get Notification of RSS Feed Updates With Feedbeep" » The New Yahoo News Beta
Yahoo's got a new news beta out there, which you can check out at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s&u=/tour_general/static. Actually that's all sales wibeldypuff. To get to the good stuff, hit the Start Exploring button. Basically it's tabbed at the top, with the top...
Old Copies of Salt Lake Tribune Going Online
Copies of the Salt Lake Tribune from the 1870s are now available online, with plans afoot to put papers from the 1880s and 1890s online as well. You can read all about the plans at http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2655500, but you can read...
Continue reading "Old Copies of Salt Lake Tribune Going Online" » Opera 8 Is On the Air
Opera has announced the release of Opera 8, now available at Opera.com. Some changes from here and 7.x include voice support, "Support for XmlHttpRequest giving full Gmail support" (yay!), notification of blocked pop-ups (this'll be useful), and some additional security...
Find RSS Feeds in Yahoo and Google
(Notes to myself for later searching/exploring) Okay, I'm totally confused. I'm doing some experimenting for finding RSS feeds within general search engine searches. So I took a Yahoo RSS feed and pulled out some characteristics that should be similar across...
April 19, 2005Plays in Ireland Since 1950
According to an article at ENN.ie, a new site called Irish Playography is set to open next week. The site is described as "an online, searchable catalogue of all new plays produced professionally in Ireland since 1950." The site is...
Tracking Hot Links: Old News, Baby
Ever wonder who finds those cool links first that then flood all over the Internet? A site is attempting to point out the hot stuff and figure out who's finding it, and who's getting to it when it's old news,...
Google Maps Goes to the UK
Hey, Google Maps has gone to the UK! You can check out the new Maps at http://maps.google.co.uk/. And while you're wandering virtually around the UK, check out Google Local UK. http://local.google.co.uk/. Niftee....
April 18, 2005An RSS Reader in GMail?
Evan points to what looks like an RSS reader in GMail. Hm, sez I, sounds interesting. So I go to GMail and look for it, and I don't see anything, and I wonder if it's documented. So I go to...
Google.org
Cheers to Google Blogoscoped for the pointer to http://www.google.org, which describes itself as "the philanthropic arm of Google." Nothing much there yet except the admission that there's nothing much there yet. Though it's interesting to note that the Google Firefox...
April 12, 2005A Wiki for SEO Information
There is so much information about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) flying around, and I admit a lot of the esoteric stuff about getting the percentage of your target keywords just right and putting the H1 tags in just the right...
The Google Video Upload Program
Um, okay. Google has started a video upload program. They're soliciting the general public to upload videos to them as part of their video program. You remember when I mentioned this in January ( researchbuzz.org/yup_google_launches_video_search_.shtml ) it was indexing televised...
April 11, 2005Compare Yahoo and Google Results
Wondering EXACTLY what the difference is between Yahoo and Google's results? Well, I can't help you there but I can give you a pointer. The pointer's to Yahgoohoogle, a site that lets you compare Yahoo and Google's search results. You...
Browse Blogs by Geographic Location
Ah, blogs, and geography. Two great tastes that go great together. Witness their beautiful music at BlogMap -- http://www.feedmap.net/BlogMap/ . Here you can browse for weblogs by location, set the location of your blog, and search for blogs by location....
April 10, 2005New Zealand Library to Build Digital Archive
The National Library of New Zealand is planning to build a digital archive, with an initial budget of $24 million to create a digital repository. Not only Internet content but also digital material in the form of CD-ROMs and DVDs...
Continue reading "New Zealand Library to Build Digital Archive" » Huge Set of Ship Registers Now Available Online
Mystic Seaport (with the help of The Mariners' Museum, the Maine Maritime Museum, The Peabody Essex Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) has put together a collection of the earliest-published American ship registers. They begin...
Continue reading "Huge Set of Ship Registers Now Available Online" » Tracking Blog Citations to NYT Articles
This weekend has the weekend for finding "nifty-as-all-getout" stuff. The latest on the plate is The Annotated New York Times, available at http://nytimes.blogrunner.com/ . This cool tool tracks blogosphere citations to NYT articles. The front page is set up with...
Continue reading "Tracking Blog Citations to NYT Articles" » Make Your Own Google Maps Mashups
Big hat tip to Metafilter for this pointer to Engadget and their instructions to make your own Google Maps mashups. You'll have to do some stuff in Firefox and you'll have to tweak some XML. Oooooh, I gotta think of...
April 09, 2005Hey, When did Britannica Get RSS Feeds?
The Encyclopedia Britannica Web site is offering an RSS feed. Wild. Get more information about it at https://account.britannica.com/rss_faq.html ; note you don't actually need to have an account in order to get the RSS feed. Apparently there's only one feed...
Continue reading "Hey, When did Britannica Get RSS Feeds?" » Hey! You Got Your Google Maps in My Craigslist!
How cool is THIS? Some very clever person has just done a mashup of Google Maps and Craigslist rental listings. You can check it out at http://www.paulrademacher.com/housing/ . You can specify if you're looking to rent or to buy, then...
Continue reading "Hey! You Got Your Google Maps in My Craigslist!" » RSS Feeds for Yahoo Shopping
Yes, Yahoo Shopping has RSS feeds! Nifty! Get 'em at http://shopping.yahoo.com/rss/ . Now if I could only start paying Yahoo shops via PayPal......
April 08, 2005A Blog of Interesting Google Maps Pictures
As you've probably heard, Google Maps has integrated satellite pictures into their Google Maps Web site. Do a Google Maps search and then click on the "Satellite" link in the upper right corner. You can't always get a picture; sometimes...
Continue reading "A Blog of Interesting Google Maps Pictures" » Google Integrating Stock Quote Information Into Search Results
Google has long had pointers to stock information in its search results. However it's now integrating stock quotes directly at the top of their search results -- you won't have to go to a different Web site to get a...
Continue reading "Google Integrating Stock Quote Information Into Search Results" » Road Sign Math
Way way back I used to work in fast food. This was a very long time ago. I had to be at work at about 6am to help get the food ready for the day. It involved lots of cooking...
Google Now Offering Q&A Service
Hat tip to Garyster to the pointer about Google's new Q&A service. (Google's 'blog entry on it is at google.com/googleblog/2005/04/just-facts-fast.html .) It looks like a ready-reference type service where they put basic answers to basic questions at the top of...
ebrary Offering ALA Members Free Access for Nat'l Library Week
ebrary is offering free access to ALA members to celebrate National Library Week, which is April 10-16. But here's the thing: the resource for which they're offering access will be free for a year, not just for that week. The...
Continue reading "ebrary Offering ALA Members Free Access for Nat'l Library Week" » April 06, 2005Yahoo Backs Up Wikipedia
Hmm. Yahoo and Wikipedia have announced that Yahoo will be supporting Wikipedia with "hardware and resources" and in turn will be integrating Wikipedia results into their search results over the next several weeks, via shortcuts. The official announcement is at...
Getting Yahoo Local Results in a Spreadsheet
Man, I SO wanted this to work, but I couldn't get it to. Maybe my version of Excel is too old (reading the site again, I see it is. DRAT!) Anyway, a very clever person has come up with an...
Continue reading "Getting Yahoo Local Results in a Spreadsheet" » Compare Hospital Care With Online Tool
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have launched a new tool that allows people to compare the quality of hospital care all over the US. It's available at http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov ....
April 05, 2005LOC Releases James Madison Papers
The Library of Congress has released the James Madison Papers to their American Memory Web site: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/ . The collection includes about 12,000 images in about 72,000 digital images. From the front page you can view a Madison timeline (from...
Google Labs: New Google Ride Finder
Google is offering a new "Ride Finder" feature in Google Labs, but it doesn't support Opera. Time to fire up Firefox. Okay. The Ride Finder's at http://labs.google.com/ridefinder . If you've seen Google Maps you'll recognize these maps, but you'll...
Google Blogoscoped Creates Auto-Linker Tool
Google Blogoscoped has created an auto-linker tool that, ironically enough, works with the Yahoo API (it also works with Google, as you can see from a pull down menu at the bottom of its page.) You can get it at...
Continue reading "Google Blogoscoped Creates Auto-Linker Tool" » Diary of Captain Cook Available Online
This writeup is dedicated to my friend KB, who rarely e-mails me without tossing around a few "Arrrs" and "Avasts". The National Library of Australia has digitized the Endeavour Journal and made it available online at http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.ms-ms1-t-cd . It's a...
Yahoo Makes Changes to Y!Q
Remember that Y!Q service for publishers and searchers? It's a service available that allows you to add context-based searching to your site. You can see my earlier writeup about it here. Yahoo has announced some changes to it in their...
April 04, 2005Scotsman Expands Archive to 1950, Makes Free Offer
The Scotsman launched a new digital archived a while ago, which was covered in ResearchBuzz in December. But now they've expanded the archive and announced a free offer for folks in the US and Canada. Before the archive covered from...
Continue reading "Scotsman Expands Archive to 1950, Makes Free Offer" » Trendalicious for Del.Icio.Us
Hat tip to Library Stuff for the pointer to Trendalicious, which shows the popular stuff in the deliciousphere. It's available at http://fresh.homeunix.net/delicious.html . The list on this page shows "All URLs that have been posted by a minimum of two...
April 02, 2005April Fool's Day Roundup
I really don't like posting on April Fool's Day; people never know whether to take you seriously or not. And I don't like posting jokes anyway. So anyway. Here on the day after April Fool's is a nice roundup of...
Yahoo Announces New Index
Yahoo took a tip from Danny Sullivan and announced on their blog when they would be updating their search index. The answer, as you can see at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000095.html , was the night of March 31st. Further, they provide an e-mail...
Rhode Island's New Find-Your-Official Tool
The state of Rhode Island has updated its Find-Your-Officials tool. Before the tool would only find the officials for the addresses of registered voters. Now it'll find officials for any address. Instructions are now available in Spanish as well as...
Continue reading "Rhode Island's New Find-Your-Official Tool" » Kansas Offers Alert Service for Gubernatorial Press Releases
The state of Kansas is offering Govwire, an e-mail service that'll send out alerts when press releases are issued by the office of the Kansas governor. You can get more information and a sign-up form at https://www.accesskansas.org/mailman/listinfo/govwire . It's free....
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