Google announced yesterday its new Web indexing system, which it says in the announcement “provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of […]
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Morning Buzz — June 9, 2010
Good article from MakeUseOf: 10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research”. West Virginia has relaunched its official Web site. (That’s a press release link.) The state of Texas […]
Google Places — Average User Spend Per Month? Where’s that Data Coming From?
I was wandering around Google Places today and I came across the strangest thing. I noticed that one of the listings I was looking at had some unusual lines under the “Details” […]
Morning Buzz — June 8, 2010
A nice article from Fuzzy Tolerance on using the Google Font API. From Computerworld.au: “Archive project will digitize WWII Enigma messages”. The St. Paul Union Advocate is getting a free online archive […]
LOC Releases WWII Sketchbook Archive
The Library of Congress recently digitized and made available a new online archive of eight sketchbooks made by architect Victor A. Lundy when he served in World War II. The eight sketchbooks […]