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January 26, 2005Official Documents of the UN Now FreePreesh 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 . ......Read the rest of entry "Official Documents of the UN Now Free" here. What's New At LLRXPlenty 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...Library of Congress Announces September 11 Documentary Project PresentationThe 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...January 25, 2005Five Years Worth of Boing BoingBoing 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...Read the rest of entry "Five Years Worth of Boing Boing " here. 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...Read the rest of entry "The NOFOLLOW Roundup -- Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. " here. This Week in ResearchBuzz ExtraEvery 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...Read the rest of entry "This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra" here. Yup, Google Launches Video SearchGoogle 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;...Read the rest of entry "Yup, Google Launches Video Search " here. January 24, 2005A Collection of Digitized Books About BooksOak 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...Read the rest of entry "A Collection of Digitized Books About Books " here. January 21, 2005Spotting Exotic Cars, the Online DatabaseYou 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...Read the rest of entry "Spotting Exotic Cars, the Online Database " here. Going Back to the Source -- The Dewey Errors ListAn 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...Read the rest of entry "Going Back to the Source -- The Dewey Errors List " here. 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...Read the rest of entry "Google Releasing an API for Google AdWords?" here. Database of Baby NamesDon'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...January 20, 2005Yahoo Introduces A TickerYahoo 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...Picasa BlogHey, 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 NewsBotThanks 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 ....Read the rest of entry "MSN Releases New Country Versions of NewsBot" here. Amazon Web Services Team Has Its Own BlogThe Amazon Web Services team has its own blog at http://aws.typepad.com/. Very information rich -- absolutely one for my RSS reader....Read the rest of entry "Amazon Web Services Team Has Its Own Blog" here. 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....Read the rest of entry "What Happened to Google's Ten-Word Query Limit?" here. January 18, 2005Bookshare.org Gets Up to Over 20,000 TitlesBookshare.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...Read the rest of entry "Bookshare.org Gets Up to Over 20,000 Titles " here. This Week in ResearchBuzz ExtraEvery week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll find news and resources you won't find in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article: part three of our series...Read the rest of entry "This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra" here. HighBeam Goes Free For A WeekHighBeam 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...Read the rest of entry "HighBeam Goes Free For A Week " here. Rocketinfo Adds Content to DatabaseNews 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...Read the rest of entry "Rocketinfo Adds Content to Database " here. askSam Puts Sarbanes-Oxley Into DatabaseDatabase 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...Read the rest of entry "askSam Puts Sarbanes-Oxley Into Database" here. January 17, 2005Building Research Tools With Google for DummiesDid 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/ ....Read the rest of entry "Building Research Tools With Google for Dummies" here. From Here to BloggernityNo 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...A New Search Engine For Finding Distance Learning ClassesIf 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 ....Read the rest of entry "A New Search Engine For Finding Distance Learning Classes" here. January 15, 2005Blogging an Egyptian DigJohns 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...Submit Your RSS Feed to 15 Places at a TimeSubmit your RSS feed to 15 places at a time, via FeedSubmitter, available free at http://thomaskorte.com/feedsubmitter/. Ta Danny....Read the rest of entry "Submit Your RSS Feed to 15 Places at a Time" here. Yep, There Was a Google / GMail BugYes, there was a GMail Bug -- but it's been fixed already .......Read the rest of entry "Yep, There Was a Google / GMail Bug " here. Stepping Around Google HacksAs 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...Whole Grain Bread Recipe CollectionsWhen 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...Read the rest of entry "Whole Grain Bread Recipe Collections" here. January 14, 2005Google's New Mini Search ApplianceGoogle'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...Read the rest of entry "Google's New Mini Search Appliance " here. Chris Sherman's Groovy Search GizmosChris Sherman notes three cool search gizmos over at SearchDay. I really like the Whois plugin and the really nice "Printer Friendly" bookmarklet....Read the rest of entry "Chris Sherman's Groovy Search Gizmos" here. MSN Offering XML Feeds of Web SearchesI 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...Read the rest of entry "MSN Offering XML Feeds of Web Searches" here. January 13, 2005Yahoo Finance RSS Feeds Are Back In BusinessWoo-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...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Finance RSS Feeds Are Back In Business" here. January 12, 2005Google News Boo-BooI 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"...Useful Meta-Interface Search Engine: MrSapoI 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...Read the rest of entry "Useful Meta-Interface Search Engine: MrSapo" here. This Week In ResearchBuzz ExtraEvery week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll get news and resources that you won't get in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article; part two on setting...Read the rest of entry "This Week In ResearchBuzz Extra" here. PubSub Launches Sidebar for FirefoxPubSub 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...Read the rest of entry "PubSub Launches Sidebar for Firefox" here. January 11, 2005Variety of Civil War Maps Now Available OnlineThe 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...Read the rest of entry "Variety of Civil War Maps Now Available Online " here. VisitorVille Tracks Users From Thousands of CompaniesWhen 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...Read the rest of entry "VisitorVille Tracks Users From Thousands of Companies " here. What's New At LLRXMany new updates at LLRX this week including The Federal Web: Content at the Ten-year Mark ( http://www.llrx.com/features/federalweb.htm ), Free Online Resources for Public Library Users: Pennsylvania and Ohio (...January 10, 2005New Business Search Engine Out of IcelandThere'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...Read the rest of entry "New Business Search Engine Out of Iceland " here. Technorati Contest: More Developer WinnahsI 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...Read the rest of entry "Technorati Contest: More Developer Winnahs" here. January 08, 2005RSS Promoting BargainsThere'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 BillionCongratulations 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 AdvertisingIf 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...Read the rest of entry "Blog on Contextual Advertising" here. Quick Rundown of Useful Google LinksThere'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....Read the rest of entry "Quick Rundown of Useful Google Links" here. Let Me Tell You About My CatI 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...Read the rest of entry "Let Me Tell You About My Cat " here. SideStep, Yet Another Travel Search EngineSideStep 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...Read the rest of entry "SideStep, Yet Another Travel Search Engine " here. What Fahree MeansA 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....January 06, 2005RSS Digest Gets to Version 2.0RSS Digest, last covered in September 2004 ( http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/002022.shtml ), has gone to version 2.0. It supports RSS *and* Atom now, but it's still available at the same place: http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/...Read the rest of entry "RSS Digest Gets to Version 2.0" here. askSam Turns Intelligence Reform Act Into a DatabaseaskSam has announced that they've turned the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 into an askSam database. Individual sections of the legislation are divided into separate documents. You...Read the rest of entry "askSam Turns Intelligence Reform Act Into a Database " here. January 05, 2005Net Snippets Offers a Fahree VersionNet Snippets is now offering a fahree edition of their post-search information organizing software, Net Snippets. I am assured that the fahree version doesn't have time limitations or anything like...Read the rest of entry "Net Snippets Offers a Fahree Version " here. GuruNet Launches New Service, Answers.comGuruNet corporation, heretofore known for software that allowed one-click reference information from the desktop, is now offering Answers.com, which will provide instant reference information. Answers.com strangely enough is available at...Read the rest of entry "GuruNet Launches New Service, Answers.com" here. January 04, 2005It's Like Google Suggest, Only As A DictionaryThere's been a lot of discussion about Google Suggest, which provides potential words and phrases depending on what you type into the query box. There's a similar tool available using...Read the rest of entry "It's Like Google Suggest, Only As A Dictionary " here. This Week in ResearchBuzz ExtraEvery week in ResearchBuzz Extra, you'll see news and resources that you won't see in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article? ARGCC... where we start...Read the rest of entry "This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra" here. OED Adds Bunch of New WordsThe Oxford English Dictionary has added several new words to their dictionary. You can get a list at http://www.oed.com/help/updates/latest-additions.html. New words include beat-down, flippy, several variants on home school, kill...A Directory of Specialty Gardening CatalogsI generally do not cover e-commerce related sites. In the case of Cyndi's Catalog of Gardening Catalogs I will make an exception, because a) it's very obviously the work of...Read the rest of entry "A Directory of Specialty Gardening Catalogs " here. January 03, 2005Rocketinfo Releases A News Search APINews search engine Rocketinfo has released a news search API. The announcement is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/iwpr?id=77677&cat=CUST , but the announcement says to actually GET the API you have to e-mail Rocketinfo...Read the rest of entry "Rocketinfo Releases A News Search API " here. Mailing List for Distributing GMail InvitesIf you've got some GMail invites to distribute, or you're looking for one, you might want to check out a new list for both requesting and distributing GMail invites: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/GiveAndTake....Read the rest of entry "Mailing List for Distributing GMail Invites" here. WikiBibliography Offers Information on WikisThere's a new Web bibliography available, devoted to significant reports, information, and publications about Wikis. It's called WikiBibliography and thank goodness for the paste key. It's available at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/WikiBib.htm ....Read the rest of entry "WikiBibliography Offers Information on Wikis " here. Search Engine Gigablast Rolling Out New FeaturesThere are many search engines I monitor on a regular basis. I mean I deliberately monitor certain of their pages for changes. I'm going to have to add Gigablast to...Read the rest of entry "Search Engine Gigablast Rolling Out New Features" here. New Search Engine Nokodo LaunchesNokodo's been in beta for a while, but officially launched on January first. This full-text search engine is available at http://nokodo.com/ . While this site has some decent features, it...Read the rest of entry "New Search Engine Nokodo Launches" here. January 02, 2005Cindy McCaffrey is Leaving GoogleAccording to SiliconBeat, Google's vice president of corporate marketing, Cindy McCaffrey, is leaving Google. I communicated a lot with Cindy in Google's early years. She was always very straight up...Read the rest of entry "Cindy McCaffrey is Leaving Google" here. Yahoo's Top Searches for 2004Yahoo http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Dec/1103873.htm has announced their top searches for 2004. The big winner? "American Idol". What a surprise. You can see all the top 2004 lists at http://tools.search.yahoo.com/top2004/, which include top...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo's Top Searches for 2004" here. Lake Superior State University and the Banned WordsLake Superior State University has published their banned words list for 2005, which you can check out at http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php . Words on the list include "Webinar" (I heard that), "Sales...Read the rest of entry "Lake Superior State University and the Banned Words" here. January 01, 2005Barbara Quint, Askin' the Questions About Google ScholarBarbara Quint, editor-in-chief of Searcher and all-around very brainy person, has a roundup of questions and answers about the new Google library project -- mostly from a library/librarian's point of...Read the rest of entry "Barbara Quint, Askin' the Questions About Google Scholar" here. 2005 Resolutions in the BlogosphereTechnorati has a cute tool for finding out other blogs' 2005 resolutions at http://www.technorati.com/2005resolutions.html. I'd include mine but the document would be about ten terabytes....Read the rest of entry "2005 Resolutions in the Blogosphere" here. |
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