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! 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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

I think I’m setting some kind of record for the number of metasearch engines I’m covering in one month. Anyway, there’s a site at http://kokogiak.com/booksearch that allows you to search Google Book […]