Image Search on the Web
Friday March 31, 2006
Find images on the Web using these image-specific search engines, directories, and collections. Not all of the images can be used without permission, so be sure to check with ... Read More
TCP IP - The Language of the Internet
Thursday March 30, 2006
What is the language of the Internet? Computers have a common "language" that they use to talk to each other on the Net, which is called Transmission Control Protocol/Internet ... Read More
Free Lesson Plans at the Getty Museum
Wednesday March 29, 2006
You can get free lesson plans at the Getty Museum for your classroom or homeschool or personal enrichment, some of these include:
Telling Stories in Art: These lessons will build ... Read More
Humanities Resources on the Deep Web
Wednesday March 29, 2006
There are plenty of humanities resources on the Invisible Web, and as a Liberal Arts/English major, I'm inevitably drawn to arts, literature, and history Web sites that will give ... Read More
Donald Trump Has A Travel Search Engine - GoTrump.com
Tuesday March 28, 2006
Yes, that's right - the Donald has himself a travel search engine named (what else) GoTrump.com. Here's more information from the site:
"I love a great deal. At GoTrump.com, I ... Read More
How To Find the Top Searches On The Web
Tuesday March 28, 2006
What are the top searches on any given search engine? Many search engines and sites keep track of the top searches on the Web, either in real time or ... Read More
All About Yahoo
Monday March 27, 2006
Here are the top Yahoo Search Shortcuts that will make your Yahoo search experience fast, fun, and ultimately efficient. You'll find that using these Yahoo Search Shortcuts will greatly ... Read More
The MySpace Experiment and a Few MySpace Links
Monday March 27, 2006
Rarely does a day go by when I'm not reading at least one article about MySpace in my assortment of RSS feeds; here's just a few that I've come ... Read More
Submit Your Bookmarks to Multiple Sites at Once with Socializer
Monday March 27, 2006
This via BlogSEO; a great service called Socializer allows you with one click to submit a favorite site to multiple social bookmarking sites at one time, such as Digg, ... Read More
Ask.com's Television Ads
Monday March 27, 2006
Lately I've noticed the newly branded Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) is running ads during prime television watching times. It will be interesting to see how many virgin Ask users ... Read More
Free Movie Downloads Updated; and a Few Fun Movie Sites
Thursday March 23, 2006
I've updated the Free Movie Downloads article with even more free online movie information; and just for fun, here's a few of the movie Web sites that I've been ... Read More
Find a Job with Bloglines
Thursday March 23, 2006
Just noticed in my Bloglines feeds that they're featuring a nifty new job search featuring job search engines Indeed.com and SimplyHired.com; here's the blurb:
"Looking for a new job? Tired ... Read More
The President of the United States - Online
Wednesday March 22, 2006
The Web is great for finding all sorts of fun stuff, not the least of which is tracking the President's activities. Here's a few interesting Web sites that I've ... Read More
Tom Cruise Visits Yahoo
Wednesday March 22, 2006
Yesterday, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes visited the Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, where Tom spoke about...what? I don't know, and I'm unclear as to why Tom Cruise would be ... Read More
Game Shows Link Roundup
Wednesday March 22, 2006
I love watching game shows. I was a HUGE fan of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" when Regis Philbin was hosting it, and I love watching "The Price Is ... Read More
NCAA Basketball Tournament - Free Streaming Video on the Web
Tuesday March 21, 2006
CBS has decided to offer free streaming videos of the NCAA basketball tournament. More from the site:
"Get LIVE game broadcasts of CBS Sports television coverage of NCAA March Madness ... Read More
eSnips - Share ALL Your Content
Tuesday March 21, 2006
With the features of sites such as Digg, del.icio.us, and Flickr, eSnips has fully arrived on the scene with a combination of all three of these services. Oh, and ... Read More
Google Finance
Tuesday March 21, 2006
Google has rolled out another offering in the form of Google Finance, which I'm assuming will attempt to compete with Yahoo Finance. More about Google Finance from the Official ... Read More
Set Your Home Page To Your Favorite Web Site
Monday March 20, 2006
One very easy way to organize your favorite email client, keep up with personalized news, collect favorites, etc., is to set your home page to your favorite site that ... Read More
Podzinger Launches New Video Podcast Search
Monday March 20, 2006
Podzinger, a podcast search engine that distinguished itself in the podcast search engine field by giving searchers the ability to search within podcasts by spoken word, has now launched ... Read More
Free PC Downloads
Saturday March 18, 2006
Whether you're looking for PC drivers, freeware, shareware, patches, PC game downloads, or the latest updates to various software packages, you're sure to find it at one of these ... Read More
Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents Now Available
Saturday March 18, 2006
This via Smart Mobs; the United States government is releasing Iraq intelligence documents for your reading pleasure. These Operation Iraqi Freedom documents can be found at the Foreign Military Studies ... Read More
Search Engines Celebrate St. Patrick's Day
Friday March 17, 2006
For more information about these particular search engines and a whole heck of a lot more, check out my feature titled 100 Search Engines in 100 Days-Table of Contents. This ... Read More
St. Patrick's Day 2006
Friday March 17, 2006
Top of the mornin' to ye and Happy St. Patrick's Day! This morning my first grader (and the rest of the first graders...think about 90 small boys and girls ... Read More
Online Newspapers
Friday March 17, 2006
You don't have to go to the corner anymore in your bathrobe, or look for spare change under the couch cushions to get your daily news. Now, you can ... Read More
Google Web Accelerator
Thursday March 16, 2006
As I was searching on Google this morning, I noticed that they're pushing the Google Web Accelerator right now. What is it? More from the site:
"Google Web Accelerator works ... Read More
Truman Capote - Web Search Sites Roundup
Thursday March 16, 2006
With the recent buzz about the Truman Capote bio movie, I've been interested to find out more about this somewhat mysterious author. There are a lot of sites on the ... Read More
Web Search Engines
Thursday March 16, 2006
If you're like a lot of people I know, you find one good Web search engine and stick with it forever, through the good and the bad and the indifferent. ... Read More
Bloglines Is The Devil
Wednesday March 15, 2006
And here's my proof:
Yeah? Yeah? See? The mark of the beast is in my Bloglines feeds, albeit for a very short amount of time. This just goes to show you ... Read More
The Query by Humming Project - Hum A Few Bars for the Web
Tuesday March 14, 2006
What is the Query by Humming Project? From the NYU site:
"A Query by Humming system allows the user to find a song by humming part of the tune. No ... Read More
Beatles Songs - Web Search Site Roundup
Tuesday March 14, 2006
As I was listening to Pandora and a Beatles song came on, I decided that today's About Web Search site roundup would be all about Beatles songs. Ladies and Gentlemen, ... Read More
Google Acquires Writely and SketchUp
Tuesday March 14, 2006
This week Google's gone on a bit of a shopping spree and snapped up both Writely, a Web word processing program, and SketchUp, an architectural program. More about the Writely ... Read More
Ten Websites I Can't Live Without
Monday March 13, 2006
Are there websites that you have to visit every single day? Websites that if you missed just one day, you'd feel kinda weird, like you went to the grocery store ... Read More
Ancient Egypt History on the Web
Monday March 13, 2006
I've just spent over an hour browsing through ancient Egyptian history sites on the Web. I still find it utterly amazing that we can view all this great material ... Read More
Google Mars Maps
Monday March 13, 2006
Check out the Google home page; they've got a special logo that leads you to the Google Mars map special.
More Fun With Maps: View the world at night with ... Read More
CIA Secrets on the Web - Fun with Public Records
Sunday March 12, 2006
This from the Chicago Tribune:
"When the Tribune searched a commercial online data service, the result was a virtual directory of more than 2,600 CIA employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers ... Read More
Feed43 - Create a RSS Feed
Sunday March 12, 2006
This came through my del.icio.us feeds today; Feed43 is a "free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly." More from the site:
"Feed43 (pronounced ... Read More
Windows Live Toolbar Now Available
Saturday March 11, 2006
From the official MSN Search blog; a new Windows Live toolbar is now available. More from the blog:
"We have released the Windows Live Toolbar beta which adds some really ... Read More
What's the point of viral videos?
Saturday March 11, 2006
To pass them around, of course. Hence the name "viral", root word "virus", which means an unstoppable force that either messes you up for a long time or gives ... Read More
Ducati Motorcycles Is Blogging
Friday March 10, 2006
This via Motorbiker; Federico Minoli, the CEO of Ducati, has launched what looks to be the "first official blog by a motorcycle manufacturer." It's called the Desmoblog, here's a ... Read More
Topix Now With Tagged Photos Goodness
Friday March 10, 2006
Just spotted this at the Topix Blog; they're going to start categorizing news photos based on their caption text. More from the blog entry:
"Currently we have about 20,000 photos ... Read More
MySpace, Now Ginormously Huge - And Why Do YOU Use It?
Friday March 10, 2006
This from Scripps Howard:
"MySpace, the Web site that has become the A-list online hangout spot with 61 million members, plans to expand aggressively beyond the United States, perhaps even to ... Read More
Google Print Ad Program-And the Winners Are...
Thursday March 9, 2006
A while back (early February), Google let the Web at large community know that in they were going to start testing print ads, as in, ads that you can read ... Read More
Get the Buzz with Popurls
Thursday March 9, 2006
One of the most useful sites to come across my radar in a while, Popurls is a site dedicated to grabbing the "buzz", or what's popular, on the Web. ... Read More
Google Is Leaking - Analyst Reports, Google Calendar, What's Next?
Thursday March 9, 2006
I must say, that Google has been QUITE the busy little bee this week. This from TechCrunch, who "mysteriously" obtained screenshots of the upcoming Google calendar, which, amazingly ... Read More
Google and Click Fraud
Thursday March 9, 2006
Lots of talk around the Web water cooler today about Google, click fraud, and $90 million dollars. Here's just a few of the sites/blogs that are talking about it:
WebProNews: "A ... Read More
Windows Live Search
Wednesday March 8, 2006
MSN's Windows Live Search debuted today; this is a new search-related site that eventually will be mind-melded into the main MSN Search application and become a superdeduper MSN Search ... Read More
Free Classic Movies At Veoh
Wednesday March 8, 2006
As Peter Griffin would say, "Flippin' Sweet!" This via CNet; you can download free movies - cult classics - over at Veoh. And did I mention it was free? Free ... Read More
Watch TV Online at AOL -In2TV is Live (Beta)
Tuesday March 7, 2006
Hold the phone - via InsideGoogle, I just learned that AOL has now launched In2TV, still in beta, that gives anyone with an AIM account or AOL login free access ... Read More
The Best Blogging Newspapers on the Web
Monday March 6, 2006
Seems like everyone is blogging these days; shoot, even MC Hammer has a blog. Recently, a group of students at NYU decided to find out if there were some clear ... Read More
Languages on the Web
Monday March 6, 2006
Via MetaFilter, I found one of the coolest sites that I've come across in a long time, and that would be LangMaker, a collection of constructed languages. What, exactly, are ... Read More
Alternate Google Domains
Monday March 6, 2006
This via Cybernet News:
"If you are a fan of Google, then you may find this post amusing and useful. Google has many alternate domains that will take you to ... Read More
Oscars on the Web
Sunday March 5, 2006
Looking for Oscars information on the Web? Usually I end up watching about ten minutes of the Oscars, get bored, grab a book, or get up and turn it off ... Read More
The MySpace Experiment - a quick update
Saturday March 4, 2006
The MySpace experiment keeps rolling merrily along. I thought I'd share a few more snippets of emails of why people are using MySpace with you:
"After about 6 months into ... Read More
Newsvine Now Open To The Public
Friday March 3, 2006
Newsvine, a "place to read, write, and discuss the news," is now out of beta and open to the general public. And who wouldn't love their tagline - "Get ... Read More
New Digg Comment System Coming Soon
Friday March 3, 2006
A new Digg comment system is a'comin' soon, via DiggWatch. From the official Digg Blog:
"Coming soon...
- threaded
- editing
- digg comments
- bury comments (collapsable)
- friends comments turn green (posting or ... Read More
Friday Fun Sites Roundup
Friday March 3, 2006
I realized I've been remiss on the sites roundup; so here's a few for your Friday slacking off enjoyment.
MusicSage - Are You On The Beat?Dorky motto but nice concept; ... Read More
Online Music Price Inquiry
Friday March 3, 2006
From the New York Times; "investigators from the Justice Department said yesterday that they were examining the recording industry's practices for setting prices for music sold online, according to people ... Read More
Use Basic Math to Search More of the Web
Thursday March 2, 2006
There are a few basic principles that you can successfully use in nearly all the search engines out there to find exactly what it is that you are looking ... Read More
Are Terrorists Using The Invisible Web?
Thursday March 2, 2006
Nice thought-piece over at Zone-H about the Invisible Web and the possibility of it being used by terrorists to network. From the article:
"In the last few days Italian press agencies ... Read More
Self-Publish Your Blog With Blurb
Thursday March 2, 2006
If you have a blog and would like to read it as a book, then your day is coming. Via the New York Times, there's a new service coming this ... Read More
MySpace Experiment - an Update
Thursday March 2, 2006
The MySpace experiment just keeps on keeping on. And I'm thinking I'm going to make it go for longer than two weeks, since I am having fun with it don't ... Read More
How To Put Premade MySpace Layouts in Your MySpace Profile
Wednesday March 1, 2006
Perhaps you want to change your MySpace profile, and you've got a bunch of premade MySpace layouts all raring to go? Figuring out where to put these MySpace layouts ... Read More