UC Santa Cruz starts shipments to Google Book Search. AskSam puts “State of the Union” addresses in a free searchable database. bMighty: Ten search engines you don’t know about. Business-oriented. Google launches […]
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South Carolina Launches School Performance Database
Now you can find out about South Carolina school performance online. A new database provides “report cards” for school performance. It’s available at https://ssl.sc.gov/SchoolReportCards/ . The search form allows you to search […]
Microsoft + Yahoo = ?
Appalled. Appalled and horrified. Worried. Scared. Did I say appalled? Unless you’ve been under a particularly tightly-sealed rock, you heard that this morning Microsoft offered over $44 billion to purchase Yahoo. That’s […]
ResearchBuzz Roundup 01292008
Rob Pegoraro starts this column with “There are times when I feel like I’m in a tiny minority of people who don’t hate Windows Vista,” but by the end of the column […]
Fantasy Prediction Market For News Stories
Get some fake moolah and then make bets on news stories. Sounds kind of fun. A new site called Hubdub (and I’m sure I’m going to spell it “Hubbub” a million times, […]