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May 17, 2004

ACM Queue and a Bunch o' Search Articles

The April 2004 issue of ACM Queue has several search-oriented articles, including "Building Nutch: Open Source Search", "Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard", and "A Conversation with Matt Wells" (aka Gigablast.) Very techy stuff but worth a read;...

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August 06, 2003

Directory of Webrings

Are you familiar with Webrings? They're a way to browse a series of related Web sites via a "ring" (or circle or train or whatever) icon, usually at the bottom of a site. There's a directory available at http://ringdir.ringlink.org/ which...

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July 10, 2003

Spam Laws Directory

There are plenty of spam laws being enacted or considered all over the world. A nice site for learning more about what's still on the table and what's been signed into law is http://www.spamlaws.com/. This site is divided into several...

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January 28, 2003

Break the Chain Looks at Online Chain Letters

The road to a full mailbox is paved with good intentions. And you'd be amazed (or possibly not) at how often those good intentions take the form of chain letters that are mistaken or just plain hoaxes. BreakTheChain.org (...

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November 22, 2002

Donate Your Spam To A Good Cause

Always wanted to do something useful with the Spam that shows up in your mailbox? News.com is reporting ( http://news.com.com/2100-1023-966768.html ) on a new effort from CipherTrust called Spamarchive.org. Spamarchive.org ( http://www.spamarchive.org ) isn't too populated yet. Apparently the site...

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September 26, 2001

Good Sources for Good Sites

Reader BH dropped me a note asking me what my favorite newsletters are for finding sources. Bearing in mind that I do a lot of searching on my own, and that the greatest readers in the world send me a...

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March 12, 2001

I See Dead Sites

Lately I've heard about at least a few sites which have been mentioned in ResearchBuzz in the last couple of years shutting down. Since these are more research/reference sites, they are not getting the coverage in the media that larger-known...

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December 07, 1999

More Mailing Lists and Newsletters

More resources for mailing lists and newsletters! Meta-List.net ( http://www.meta-list.net/ ) allows you to search for over 230,000 mailing lists. You can search FOR several different languages, but currently the search interface is implemented in only TWO different languages --...

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November 10, 1999

Mailing List Sites Merge

Free mailing list sites OneList and eGroups have agreed to merge. Details: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1433412.html...

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