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Information RSS FeedsResearchBuzz Roundup 011407 - Using Wikipedia to make computers smarter: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/526330/?sc=dwtr. Really specialized job sites — http://comicjobz.com/ . Google to give out real-time stock quotes for free? Ikes. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/real-time-quotes-for-free.html . Congratulations to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five for their recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nod. They’re the first hiphop artists to be inducted into the Hall. [ ] ...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Dictionary Search Engine Finds Meaning for Over 2 Million Items - Oh boy! More reference! More dictionaries! Recently I got an e-mail about a new site that crawls Web sites for meanings. MetaGlossary ( http://www.MetaGlossary.com ), is in beta and is offering definitions for over two million words, phrases, acronyms, etc.
The front page is basic with just a search box (there’s also an offer [ ]
... Fagan Finder Updates Image Search - Michael Fagan has announced an update to his image search. You might remember FaganFinder from a few years ago — it’s a multiple search engine interface covering a variety of resources. He’s hasn’t done much with it for a while, but recently took some time to update the image search part, which you can check [ ]
... Searching Google for Patent Information - Back on the catching up range again — Google has released a search engine for patent searching which you can find at http://www.google.com/patents . As with practically everything in the Google pantheon it’s in beta. There are currently over seven million US patents in the search engine and Google expects to expand overtime.
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... Search Engine Focused on Folks Over 50 - CRANKY.COM??? CRANKY???? Why not just call it HeyYouKidsGetOffMyLawn? OhMyLumbago? BackwardsUphillThreeMilesThroughTheSnow? Anyway, there’s a new search engine that claims to focus on search results for users over fifty, and for some reason it’s called Cranky.com ( http://www.cranky.com ).
Oh, I see. It’s cRANKy. Uh-huh. The press release says that Cranky is “designed to deliver the [ ]
... Metasearch Engine Zuula Searches Useful Sites - I’m not a big user of metasearch engines; my complaint about them is that they tend not to have search engines I use. Further, I don’t find all the results aggregated and smashed together to be useful.
However, after playing with Zuula.com ( http://zuula.com ) a little bit, I might make an exception; I [ ]
... Directory of Blogs Focused on Specific Locations - For a long time there’s been promise that location in real space will have a greater and greater impact on what we see on the Internet. And to some extent that’s true — there’s geo-targeted advertising and some sites have content tailored to your location. But to a great extent you still have to go [ ]
... ResearchBuzz Roundup 010907 - Ask is APPARENTLY COMPLETELY INCAPABLE OF LETTING GO OF 2006 (just kidding, Ask): http://blog.ask.com/2007/01/best_of_20063.html.
Google Maps distance calculator — calculate the difference between two Google Maps points (thanks Philipp).
Yahoo opens up their local links for editing.
Terabyte Hard Drives! Yippee! http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6147409.html .
Google Reader now offers a trend page.
Live Search at CES: http://livesearch.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!8560B877FE8E9138!1249.entry [ ]
... IceRocket and Some New (?) Popularity Features - I’ve mentioned earlier that I’ve been using IceRocket a lot lately for blog search. It doesn’t have an unlimited index of blogs, but it’s mostly splog-free and I like the way it sorts out the results. IceRocket also has several popularity and trending features. I’ve noticed but haven’t mentioned the Popular YouTube Videos, which measure [ ]
... View Craigslist Entries With Photographs - One of my favorite things is to find Web sites that I like anyway and find that someone has done something external to improve them. I found a site that’s done that with Craigslist; it’s called ListPic. The URL is http://sfbay.listpic.com/, which is San Francisco, but ListPic works for whatever city you want to look [ ]
... Tech Talk: Quick! Where's the nearest mailbox? [del.icio.us] - The Payphone Project expands into listing mailboxes.... NCSU Exhibit Online History of 4-H and Home Demonstrations [del.icio.us] - Almost 3,500 photographs covering 4-H in NC from the 1900s to the 1970s. Exhibit will eventually have about 10,000 items.... Tech Talk: Laptop Battery Recall Scorecard [del.icio.us] - A listing of current laptop battery recalls and pointers to more information.... New York Times Launches Mobile Version [del.icio.us] - You can now access NYT content from your cell phone.... Tech Talk: Help Scientists Hunt for Stardust [del.icio.us] - You've probably heard of programs like SETI@Home, which uses your computer's spare power to search radio telescope data for evidence of extraterrestrial life. By why should your computer have all the fun?... Copyright © 2009, QualityHosting4U's Link Exchange. All Rights Reserved. |