The National Archives of Britain has released a new set of passenger manifests which cover British ports from 1890 to 1899 (with more lists to be added later — eventually the site […]
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Wikiseek Uses Wikipedia As a Starting Point for Search
Hey, this is a pretty neat idea. Wikiseek searches Wikipedia, but it goes beyond that search only those sites referenced by Wikipedia. As it notes on its about page, this idea helps […]
AAA Offers Gas Stations, Prices on Trip Route Maps
The AAA has improved their TripTik online mapping tool to include gas prices and locations for about 100,000 places in the US. You can try TripTik free (you don’t have to be […]
ResearchBuzz 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 […]
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 […]
