Search Engine for Economics Information

Resources for Economists on the Internet, at http://rfe.org/, is a categorized list of resources relevant to economists, with categories like Data, Forecasting & Consulting, and Software. Don't forget to use the Details link for each of the listings -- there's plenty more information available.

(Man, who knew there were so many economics blogs?)

RFE now has a search engine as well, available at http://ese.rfe.org/. The ESE (Economics Search Engine) uses Nutch to index 300,000 pages from 10,000 economics sites around the Internet. Materials indexed include text, PDF, and Microsoft Word files.

I did a search for Greenspan and got about 1000 results, which list title, snippet, and URL (the snippets are pretty short.) For the most part the materials seem pretty economics-oriented, but there's a couple of oddities in there. I ran across several pages for DMoz categories ( http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Food/Confectionery/ ), and a page from Findsounds.com.

The whole site -- both the list of resources and the search engine -- is worth a look.

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