Looking for business podcasts? Check out iBizRadio at http://www.iBizRadio.com , a directory of business-oriented podcasts. The site is a searchable subject index with categories ranging from accounting to travel and hospitality. Not […]
Google CSE of the Best Reference Sites, Finding Custom Search Engines
Bill Drew, Web4Lib Cool Guy, has created a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) that searches over 225 sites. The sites are drawn from the 1999-2006 annual lists issued by the Machine-Assisted Reference […]
Yahoo Adds Star Feature to Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers now has another level of filtering, thank goodness. The Web site ( http://answers.yahoo.com/ ) now offers “stars” for their results. Users can star questions that they think are high-quality or […]
ResearchBuzz Roundup 012007
PR Newswire Hooks Up With Technorati. About time! Web site of audio to help blind people (Chinese) http://www.tynews.com.cn/index/2007-01/15/content_2966212.htm . A new search engine for radiology images: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/526536/?sc=dwtr . Congressional Hearings Digital Collection. […]
Plot out Wikipedia Articles on a Map
Several years ago the thing was to demonstrate new searching technology by taking ODP data and Doing Things to it. Now it appears the data pool of choice is Wikipedia. I am […]