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The Virtual Chase has an article by Genie Tyburski on finding copyright and trademark information for free. It too is free and available at http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/finding_copyrights_trademarks.html. The article is divided up into three sections: Copyright Research, Trademark Research, and When To...
Continue reading "Finding Copyrights and Trademarks for Free" » InquisitorX Search Engines Gives Answers Before You Hit Enter
Several months ago I covered a few search engines that would give suggestions as you type. Now there's a search engine that gives results as you type, without your having to hit the enter key on your keyboard. InquisitorX is...
Continue reading "InquisitorX Search Engines Gives Answers Before You Hit Enter" » Search Engine Logo Generating Silliness
If you're not content with the Google and Yahoo logos as they are, then visit http://googlefor.com and http://yahoofor.com/, respectively. These two sites will take the text that you specify and generate it in Yahoo or Google font. Beyond that, they'll...
Continue reading "Search Engine Logo Generating Silliness" » October 30, 2005Google Adds Interviews to Its TV Archive
Google announced in their blog that they've added a bunch of interviews from the Archive of American Television -- over 450, as a matter of fact. You can get to 'em at http://video.google.com/. There are 501 results here, with results...
Continue reading "Google Adds Interviews to Its TV Archive" » LookSmart Launches 161 Vertical Sites
LookSmart has announced 161 vertical sites in 12 different categories. You can get to all the new categories at http://search.looksmart.com/; they categories range from vegetarian food to snow sports to open source. If you pick a category from the front...
October 29, 2005Today's Roundup -- 102905
The town of Wakefield Massachusetts is the focus of a historical picture collection available at www.wakefieldlibrary.org/wakhistorypix.htm. Content includes postcards and maps as well as photographs. Each photograph has at least a brief annotation. RLG has announced that it is joining...
Getcher E-Mail Signature Graphics
More and more people are using graphics to show their e-mail addresses on Web pages because they don't want to get scraped. I've seen sites that offer a single graphic for e-mail signatures, but GSig, at http://gsig.brightdev.com/, offers several different...
Use Excel Template to Plot Points on a Yahoo Map
Hat tip to Lifehacker for the pointer to Jeffrey McManus' tool, Yahoo! MapMaker for Microsoft Excel. It's an Excel template which you can download for free at http://www.well.com/user/jeffreyp/mapmaker/. The template is supposed to allow you to put information into a...
Continue reading "Use Excel Template to Plot Points on a Yahoo Map" » October 26, 2005Pudding in a TagCloud
(Bill Cosby reference!) Thanks to Google Blogoscoped for reminding me about TagCloud, which generates clouds of tags based on RSS feeds you specify. The service is free and available at http://www.tagcloud.com/ TagCloud allows you to provide lists of RSS feeds....
Generate RSS Feeds for Yahoo Video Search
All you cool kids who have iPods with video will appreciate the Yahoo 'blog entry at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000202.html that offers a tool for generating Yahoo Video RSS feeds. They also show you how to enter these URLs on iTunes and get...
Continue reading "Generate RSS Feeds for Yahoo Video Search" » Microsoft Jumps on the Book Indexing Bandwagon
Microsoft has announced that they're going to launch MSN Book Search. It'll launch next year. In conjunction with that, MSN has announced its intention to join the Open Content Alliance, which would align them with Yahoo, etc. (You know this...
Continue reading "Microsoft Jumps on the Book Indexing Bandwagon" » Ten Years O' The Scout Report
Congratulations to The Scout Report on its ten year anniversary. You can read an overview article at http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2413 and get a retrospective at The Scout Report site: http://scout.wisc.edu/About/TenYears/. I've been subscribing to The Scout Report for at least seven years;...
University of Oregon Libraries Makes Dissociation Available
The University of Oregon Libraries have created an online archive of the psychology journal Dissociation, the past official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation. It's freely available and searchable at https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/1129 . The Journal, which appeared...
Continue reading "University of Oregon Libraries Makes Dissociation Available" » October 25, 2005Bibliography for Google Print Controversy
DigitalKoans has a list of articles about the Google Print controvery. The articles start at the Association of American Publishers, with "Google Library Project Raises Serious Questions for Publishers and Authors," and ends with The New York Times, "Google Opens...
Continue reading "Bibliography for Google Print Controversy" » All Your Google Base Etc Etc Etc
My my my, didn't my mailbox has something to get filled up with today besides the usual round of home loan confirmations and >cough cough cough cough My first heads-up came from -- The Wall Street Journal? If the Wall...
October 19, 2005Another Mass-Pinging Service
Webloggers and other pingpeople might appreciate Pingoat, which offers a huge number of services to ping at once divided up into three categories. It's at http://pingoat.com/ . (Pinging == sending an alert to a crawling or aggregation service, letting them...
October 18, 2005Get Your Words As Pictures
A couple of interesting Google Images tools. The first one's called Woogle, and you can try it at http://www.gujian.net/woogle/index.php. What Woogle does is allow you to input a phrase and get the phrase back as images from Google Image search....
A Search Engine for Hamburgers
No, I'm not kidding. There's a new search engine for hamburger lovers called BurgerFinder, at http://burgerfinder.com/. Now if I could only find something like this called VeggieBurgerFinder, all would be well. Anyway, this site is very new so don't expect...
A Couple More Offerings From Zip Code Map Guy
Maps.huge.info, which brought you zip codes laid out on Google Maps, now has two more tools which you can check out at http://maps.huge.info/. The first one allows you to enter in a zip code and get a county boundary map...
Continue reading "A Couple More Offerings From Zip Code Map Guy" » 101805 -- New at LLRX
There are several new articles available at LLRX, including The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project, by Jonathan Band (http://www.llrx.com/features/googleprint.htm), Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements - Revised and Updated, by Marci Hoffman (http://www.llrx.com/features/ustreaty.htm), Criminal Justice Ethics Sources on...
New Search Engine for Finding Jobs
When I first heard about Jobster it was through their press release, which included the line, "the first job search engine designed to help jobseekers search millions of jobs across the Web with one click and get referred directly to...
October 17, 2005Google Got a Very Broken SplogSpot
Remember when I'd gush about RSS feeds and how great they were because we'd be able to get just the content we wanted and it wouldn't have a bunch of spam and everything would be all rainbow Skittles and fluffy...
October 16, 2005Site of French News Feeds
I can't review this site because all the French I know I learned in middle school. And unfortunately I can't think of any useful way to incorporate "Mais oui! C'est Fifi!" into a reviewing process. But I can at least...
Google Librarian Center
Tip o' the nib to the nice people at the TVC alert for the pointer to the Google Librarian Center at http://www.google.com/services/librarian_center.html . From the page: "Librarians and Google share a mission: to organize the world's information and make it...
A Quick Couple of Google Map Mashups
As long as we're talking about Google Maps mash ups, lemme mention a couple more. First there's the MashMap, at http://www.mashmap.com/. It allows you to pick a city and then get a map of the movie theaters in that city...
October 15, 2005Get More Than 10 Results In Google News RSS Feeds
Someone on Webmaster World was asking how to get more than 10 results with Google News' RSS Feeds. Here's how: 1) Run the search on Google News. 2) Add &num=100 to the end of the search results URL. 3) Refresh...
Continue reading "Get More Than 10 Results In Google News RSS Feeds" » PodSpider Podcast Search Engine
PodSpider recently announced that they've opened a new PodSpider Portal which provides a search engine and directory of over 20,000 podcasts, both browsable and searchable by keyword. It's at http://www.podspider.com . The first thing that I noticed is here you...
British Council Offers Online Arts Showcase
The British Council has launched a database that provides information on the organizations 8,000 works of art in its permanent collection. The information includes images as well as writeups, as you'll see when you browse to http://collection.britishcouncil.org . There are...
Continue reading "British Council Offers Online Arts Showcase" » October 14, 2005Put Your eBay Results on a Google Map
I haven't written about a Google Maps mashup lately, so what the heck. You can search eBay and map your results on a Google Map over at http://www.markovic.com/markovic.com/ebay/search.php . It's in beta. You have several search options for the eBay...
October 11, 2005Google Reader for RSS Feeds
Google's going gaga for RSS feeds now, it seems. From barely flirting with them last summer they've gone straight into providing them directly and now offering a reader for them. The Google Reader's available at http://www.google.com/reader/ ; you'll need to...
See Amazon and eBay Results Side By Side
One thing I've been learning about a lot in the last six months is online sales -- a lot of eBay stuff, a lot of Amazon stuff. One thing I noticed immediately is how weirdly different some of the used...
Continue reading "See Amazon and eBay Results Side By Side" » Yahoo Integrates Blog Results With News Search
Recently Google launched a blog search. But Yahoo didn't. Instead they decided to integrate blog search results with their news. You can read their announcement about this at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000198.html and of course try it for yourself at http://news.yahoo.com. Integrated means...
Continue reading "Yahoo Integrates Blog Results With News Search" » October 10, 2005Update to Kebberfegg RSS Tool
I have added several sources to Kebberfegg, and by popular demand have added Bloglines as one of the outputs on the HTML page. I've also added MultiRSS as an output option, and since they output several dozen aggregator subscription links,...
Find a Flu Shot by Zip Code
If you're looking for a place where you can get vaccinated this flu season, check out the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America's Flu Shot Finder, available at http://www.aafa.org/flu.cfm. This site is a simple zip code search. Enter a zip...
Yahoo Offering New Podcasts Search
Yahoo is now offering a search engine for podcasts. And while I found a lot of stuff here I haven't found elsewhere, I felt like it was missing a couple of critical components. You can try it here: http://podcasts.yahoo.com/. This...
October 09, 2005Live Del.icio.us Bookmarks Page
Can't wait to see what people are adding to adding to Del? Check out Livemarks, which gives you a page of popular bookmarks on the left and then gives you a list of what bookmarks are being added in real-time...
Connecticut State Library offers Database of Assembly Members
The Connecticut State Library has set up a database of Connecticut General Assembly Members from 1776 to the present. It's available at http://www.cslib.org/connga.asp . (It also includes members of the 1902 and 1965 Constitutional Conventions.) You may search the database...
Continue reading "Connecticut State Library offers Database of Assembly Members" » The Texas State Library and Archives Commission Starts Blog
Okay, they call it an online news forum, but it looks to me like a blog complete with RSS feed -- and there's nothing wrong with that! Anyway, the new resource (announcement is here) is called The Open Record and...
Continue reading "The Texas State Library and Archives Commission Starts Blog" » Yahoo's News Image RSS Feeds
Okay, the good news is that Yahoo is offering RSS feeds of some of their slide shows. The bad news is that they don't mention it on their otherwise informative page about Yahoo News RSS (http://news.yahoo.com/rss.) (Yes, I know sometimes...
October 08, 2005AskSam Adds Hamlet, Da Vinci to Databases
Database software maker AskSam has added a couple new free databases to its Web site. You can browse these online or download and read them on your computer with the free AskSam reader. They're available at http://www.asksam.com/default.asp. New offerings include...
Continue reading "AskSam Adds Hamlet, Da Vinci to Databases" » Getcher Books in Wiki Format
Looking for something to read online? You might want to try Wikibooks, a Wiki structure that's been built to hold books. It's over two years old, so there's a lot to see here. It's at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page If you use Wikipedia...
October 05, 2005Kebberfegg -- Keyword Based RSS Feed Generator
When I was at Web Search University last month, I talked extensively (I would not shut up) about keyword-based RSS feeds. Keyword-based RSS feeds (some people call them search-based feeds) are simply RSS feeds that are created as the result...
Continue reading "Kebberfegg -- Keyword Based RSS Feed Generator" » Find a Farmers Market in Your Area
Fall's here, and you know what that means. FARMERS MARKETS! Now's the time to drive over to the 'market and load up on wonderful fresh produce. The USDA has a map of Farmers Markets in the US available at http://www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/map.htm...
October 04, 2005Rhode Island Announces Directory of Government Contacts
The State of Rhode Island has announced a directory of government contacts called GovTracker. The announcement about the new directory is here, while the directory itself is available at http://www.sec.state.ri.us/govtracker/. The directory is divided into several categories, including judiciary, departments...
Continue reading "Rhode Island Announces Directory of Government Contacts" » PR Newswire Gets With the RSS Feeds
PR Newswire has announced more RSS feeds for its content. The publicly-available feeds are only available by category -- in other words they're not keyword-based, but that's okay. You have other options for keyword-based PR Newswire feeds as you'll see...
Google Search Tips Jam
Philipp Lenssen, whose name I believe I spelled right on the first try, Has an article about Google Syntax and easter eggs at http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-09-29-n85.html . Let me jam on what he wrote a little bit. Please go and read his...
October 03, 2005Yahoo Announces Open Content Alliance
Yahoo has teamed up with several companies including Adobe, the Internet Archive, National Archives (UK), Hewlett Packard Labs, and O'Reilly Media to form the Open Content Alliance ( http://opencontentalliance.org/ ), which is described as "a global consortium focused on providing...
October 02, 2005RSS Feeds to Newsletters and Specializing the Feed
I got a very nice e-mail from a lady in Australia asking how the ResearchBuzz newsletters were done. Did I have a method, she asked, of converting my RSS feed to a newsletter? The answer to that is no; the...
Continue reading "RSS Feeds to Newsletters and Specializing the Feed" » Searching for Immigrants in the Castle Garden Database
I knew about Ellis Island, but I did not know about Castle Garden. Castle Garden was a Manhattan immigration center before Ellis Island. CastleGarden.org ( http://www.castlegarden.org/ ) allows you to search the records of 10 million of the immigrants processed...
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