Wikipedia.
The New York Public Library and Answers.com Announce New Homework Service
Lots of news coming from Answers.com in the past 24 hrs. First, the acquisition of Brainboost and this morning, word that Answers.com…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 1, 2005: Microsoft’s Classifieds Service Shapes Up, Google’s War Chest To Fight Redmond, Yahoo Gets Firefox Win, Upset Over Bios At Wikipedia & More!
Today’s search podcast covers how Microsoft’s classified ads service is shaping up, Google building a war chest to fight Microsoft, Yahoo ousting…
Gollum and Other Wikipedia Search Tools
News.com reports about a new “Wikipedia Browser” named Gollum that comes from German web developer, Harald Hanek. In my opinion the interface…
Google Adds Option to Limit to Creative Commons Licensed Material
Many sources including Philipp, Nathan, and Tara, have reported that Google has made an addition to their advanced search interface and now…
China Says No To Wikipedia, Dislikes Taiwan Change On Google Maps & Chinese Activist Takes Yahoo’s Yang To Task For Helping Maintain “Evil System”
Wikipedia is apparently no longer accessible to those in Shanghai and other parts of China, reports say, while Boing Boing reports a…
Tips On Tapping Into RSS For Info
Some very nice tips from Steve Rubel today about how to get more out of RSS feeds. He covers ways to make…
Orlowski Talks Quality Problems at Wikipedia
(via Threadwatch) This time Andrew Orlowski is all over Wikipedia in the article: Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems. It’s strong…
Daily SearchCast, Oct. 13, 2005: Google Buying Part Of AOL?, Spellchecking With The Google Toolbar, The Google Dentist Hoax, Mixing Google Maps And Wikipedia, Pimping Your Mobile Bookmarks & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google considering buying a piece of AOL, spellchecking with the Google Toolbar, Google’s onsite dentist being a hoax,…
Mashing Up Google Maps with Wikipedia Articles
Google Maps, now integrated with Google Local, offers a lot of information about local merchants, but these detailed results typically don’t include…
Sergey Brin: The Video Lecture
Several weeks ago Danny blogged about Professor Marti Hearst’s “awesome” UC Berkeley class featuring many presentations by some of the biggest names…