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Search Engine Watch
March 22, 2005
Mary Ellen Bates |
Just the Facts, Please While the major search engines continue to dabble with shortcuts to reference sources, Wikipedia and Answers.com have quietly evolved into two of the most comprehensive online search resources for quick, free and reliable ready reference information.   |
Information Today
January 17, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Answers.com Turns GuruNet Free The digital reference service GuruNet Corp. has switched from a subscription fee business model to an advertiser revenue model with its launch of the free Answers.com service. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2005
Greg R. Notess |
Searching Books Between the Covers When and how to use Google and Amazon for full text book searches. Also, a comparison of the two resources reveals inconsistency with both. |
Searcher
October 2002
Gary D. Price |
Specialized Search Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues An introduction to specialized search engine searching |
Information Today
April 2001
Peter Jacso |
Internet Insights - xrefer: An Xcellent British Dot-Com This free service masterfully integrates the best British ready-reference sources via cross-references and cross-links... |
Search Engine Watch
February 14, 2006
Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
Janet Rubenking |
Your Library Online With a library card and an internet connection, you can access a wealth of data from your public library. |
Macworld
October 31, 2005
Teague & Teague |
Encyclopedia Software Two of the most popular physical encyclopedias, World Book and Encyclopedia Britannica, have recently updated their virtual equivalents. Plus, the free Wikipedia Dashboard widget now makes it even easier to look up information. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2001
Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference Reference encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri remain some of the most valuable tools that aid in the completion of student research projects. This article presents the electronic versions of many reference industry favorites... |
Searcher
October 2001
Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2005
Chris Sherman |
The Best Online Reference Sites Looking for an answer to a specific question? Check out this list of the best reference sites of 2004, as compiled by the American Library Association. AskOxford.com... Cyberschoolbus... etc. |
Information Today
July 23, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Britannica.com to Launch Premium Service for Encyclopaedia Britannica Access It's now a familiar story. Yet another Web content provider feels the pinch from the severe downturn in the Internet economy and reduced advertising revenue and announces it will start charging for content that had been available for free... |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009 |
World Book Student by World Book World Book has updated its Online Reference Center with new features and a new name. |
Information Today
June 2, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
Leveraging Britannica's Content With WebShare In late April, the company officially announced its new WebShare program, which has opened the Britannica site for free access to web publishers and permits free links to full-text entries. |
PC World
June 2003
Steve Bass |
Maximum Google Google is fast, accurate, and fun to use, but you can get even more out of the boss of search engines. |
Searcher
January 2003
Barbara Quint |
The Chain of Demand There are only three kinds of information -- good, fast, and cheap. And though the Internet and the Web can provide all three simultaneously, they do not always do so. |
PC World
February 21, 2007
Scott Spanbauer |
Mine the Net for the Latest Research and Knowledge Hone your search skills to uncover troves of serious, primary-source material on the Web. |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Mapping Places in Wikipedia Wikipedia is a high quality online source of information, but does not do a good job displaying images or maps. Placeopedia attempts to fill that gap by mapping Wikipedia location entries on Google maps. |
ONLINE
September 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Ready-Reference Collections: Bartleby and xrefer Bartleby and xrefer offer free searchable access to full-text standard reference works with hundreds of thousands of individual entries... |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Tara Calishain |
The Next Small Thing If you haven't tried a search toolbar yet, you're missing a great way to ease your searching. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2004
Rich Duprey |
Google Graduates to Vertical Search New Scholar service allows searching of peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts, technical reports, etc. that would normally be inaccessible. |
Searcher
October 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature? |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2000
Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference The following Web resources and CD-ROMs acquaint students with an abundance of information at the click of a mouse... |
Searcher
March 2006
Paula Berinstein |
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid's All Right (And So's the Old Man) Can the public concoct and maintain a free, authoritative encyclopedia that's unbiased, complete, and reliable? |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Kim Zetter & Harry McCracken |
How to Stop Searching and Start Finding Tired of wading through useless search-engine results? We test 20 engines to pinpoint the ones that really deliver the goods.... |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now offers suggested spelling corrections.... Altavista has loaded larger multimedia databases for its image, audio, and video searches... AOL Search has added an image search database... Ask Jeeves has sold off its enterprise search division... etc. |
Information Today
October 28, 2010 |
Springer's Major Reference Works Now Linked Via Paratext's Reference Universe Springer's electronic and print major reference works are a mainstay of specialist research, serving a broad spectrum of scientific, technical, and medical disciplines |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2004 |
Internet Search Engine Update Froogle... Gigablast... Google... etc. |
D-Lib
April 2002
Adam Hodgkin |
Integrated and Aggregated Reference Services: The Automation of Drudgery Few books are large enough to justify an annual subscription for online access. One way round this problem is to develop an aggregation service through which a collection of books can be given additional weight and visibility, sufficient to warrant active web distribution... |
Information Today
September 18, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Who? What? How Much?: Google News Archive Premium Content Suppliers Three of the big five national newspapers have opened their archives to Google News Archive. |
Search Engine Watch
March 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Ask Google: What Does the Web Think Of... Curious to know what the web has to say about a person, place or thing? An amusing tool searches Google and shows you what website owners think about the name or topic you enter. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has added a dictionary look-up... Ask Jeeves has launched Ask Jeeves 5.0... Daypop has expanded to include 19,000 more blogs... Recently Gigablast has expanded to include a chief management officer and a chief scientist... Google has purchased Applied Semantics... etc. |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Sticky Little Fingers Google searches for leverage and finds it with three new services to keep its rivals in check. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003 |
20 Great Google Secrets You already love searching with google. These tips can make finding what you need even easier. |
PC World
August 2001
Steve Bass |
The Skinny on Web Searching Want superior Web searches? Seek my way and ye shall find... |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? Search engines have tripped over each other this past year in offering up toolbars. Yet the insidious fault of toolbars lies in the over-reliance on the search engine that their constant presence engenders. |
PC World
April 2004
Laurianne McLaughlin |
Beyond Google The Web is so full of useful info that no search engine can find it all. But a multitude of specialty sites deliver shopping advice, reference databases, leisure-time ideas, and more--fast. |
Search Engine Watch
January 25, 2006
Greg Jarboe |
Beyond Beta: Google News Graduates Google News -- the search engine of choice for journalists and news junkies -- has finally graduated from beta status, and with some shiny new features. |
Information Today
September 18, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Traditional Information Industry Opens Premium Content to Google News Archive The Google News Archive integrates free with for-fee references, alerting users to priced information, often with the actual price tag amounts, before connecting them with paid content Web sites. |
InternetNews
July 14, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
HighBeam Stocks Virtual Library Looking to fill the gap between Google and Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam now extracts information from the Columbia Encyclopedia, as well as two dozen other publications like specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, a thesaurus and others. |
Search Engine Watch
October 21, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Local Search Part 2: Google & Mobilemaps Bring Back Geosearching How Google and Mobilemaps are making it possible to search the web yet filter results to a local level |
Search Engine Watch
January 26, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Learning About Search Engines From Google Engineers Want to learn how Google works? A new archive of publications by Google employees offers deep insights into many aspects of the search engine's operation. |
PC World
July 2005
Laurianne McLaughlin |
New Search Stars What's the trend in Web search? Newcomers and search giants cook up specialty services that get you information faster than ever. |
PC Magazine
February 2, 2007
Sean Carroll |
Encyclopedia Britannica 2007 Ultimate DVD The Encyclopaedia Britannica is slowly shedding its stodgy image while still retaining its editorial excellence. |
Searcher
June 2004
Paul S. Piper |
Google Spawn: The Culture Surrounding Google Just a few years back, the word Google existed as the name of a cartoon character and possibly among the random phonemes mumbled by toddlers. Today, one would be hard-pressed to find a person who hasn't heard of the search engine that bears this name. |
PC World
August 29, 2001
Steve Bass |
Tips for Super Smart Web Searches A visit to the Google Bar finds dancing Paul and the flying squirrels... |
Information Today
June 28, 2010 |
Reference Universe now links to CQ Researcher and to CREDO Reference Reference Universe is an information service designed specifically to unlock a library's reference collection. |
Information Today
March 25, 2002 |
News Digest Legislators Save Washington State Library... Compton's Encyclopedia Returns to Britannica... EBSCO Publishing Adds New Databases, Features |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2008
William Badke |
What to Do With Wikipedia Often banned by professors, panned by traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just about everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast, growing larger and more commanding every day. |
