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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Google
Google Books and UW Madison
Google and the University of Wisconsin – Madison announced today that they will be partners in the Google Books project. This is getting kind of local… less than 200 miles! from Search Engine Watch
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Madison, search engine, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
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Unscramble
One of the frustrations in life is needing to find the spelling of a word when it is the beginning of the word that you aren’t sure of. How does one find “phonetic” in the dictionary if you aren’t thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Definitions, Google, Libraries, Online Databases
Tagged Google, pretty good site, Unscramble.net
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Literacy Project
A partnership between Google, LitCam, and UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning, The Literacy Project gathers together a bundle of resources that can be used by teachers or anyone else working with literacy and education.
Posted in Education, Google
Tagged Google, LitCam, UNESCO\'s Institute for Lifelong Learning
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Google Gadgets
Google has opened up their gadget library of over 1200 gadgets to the general web. Gadgets are user made code that were originally designed to customize people’s Google Personalized Homepages, but they are now available for anyone who wants to … Continue reading
SearchMash: it may not look like Google…
… but it most certainly is! SearchMash.com is a new search engine that looks only a little like Google, but don’t let that fool you. It is a testbed for new innovations from the popular search engine company. Try it … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Software, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, search engine
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Microsoft Works, free on the web?
I think it is a sign of just how much of an impact open source software and free web applications are having on the tech world: Microsoft is thinking of turning it’s Works Suite into a free web application. A … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Software, Web Design
Tagged basic word processing, free web application, free web applications, free web apps, Google, impact open source software, Microsoft, ThinkFree Office, Works Suite
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Book Sale Scout
Want to track down used book sales? Want to promote your own? Book Sale Scout is a site that lets you search for book sales by location, date, and distance from a zip code. It includes a Google maps interface … Continue reading
Banned Book Search
Google Book Search has put up a page dedicated to highlighting some of the books that have been challenged over the years, encouraging people to become aware of the controversies and the qualities of these reads. They have several links … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Libraries, Politics, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google Blog, Monkey Bites, Official
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Google News Archive
Google News has added an Archive Search option, giving the user the ability to search news stories as far back as the 1700s. From the Google News main page, click the News Archive Search link (I recommend going one step … Continue reading
Posted in Google, News, Online Databases, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, the Washington Post
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More news from Google Book Search
Google Book Search announced today that they were making public domain materials available for download. In the Information Today article, it was stressed that the downloads were the pdf image files, and were not able to be keyword searched, as … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Open Access, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Michigan, the
University of Michigan, the
University of Michigan, U.S. government, United States
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Google Book Search
Google Book Search has been a large topic this week, with the fruits of their scanning projects starting to show up online, at least the books that are clearly public domain or for which permission has been granted. I definitely … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Libraries, Open Access, Search
Tagged Google, online info
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Trulia
Trulia is a Google Maps mashup which combines the map, at whatever zoom you choose, and real estate listings. Hover over the marker and see the address and asking price of the property. Click and get the option to get … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Maps, Online Databases, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, real estate listings
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Google Scholar — Related Articles
Google Scholar has added a feature which, well, makes their service more Google-esque. Do a search, then click on “Related Articles” on a result that is closest to what you are looking for. from the Official Google Blog
Googling Google Googlies! (continued)
See here for my first post on this topic… Google is looking to crack down on the use of the word “google” as a verb (as in googling) in order to protect their copyright. My take on this is when … Continue reading
Get yer Geocode here!
Address Map Coordinate (Lat/Long) Finder will convert an address to a latitude/longitude coordinate, as well as show you the location via Yahoo maps. Oddly enough, the geocode link within the map takes you to Google Maps. They also work with … Continue reading
Google Help
I’m a few days late in posting this one, but Google has set up a fairly extensive Help Center to provide information and assistance for the wide varieties of Google services. In addition, Google’s blog notes that they received a … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Maps, Search, Weather, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Help Center, Hurricane Katrina, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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Google Accessible Search
Yet another reason to create web pages that are accessible (although we shouldn’t need anything further than making sure that as many people as possible can use them): Google now has a search page for the visually impaired. They rank … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, html, search page
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Weather Bonk
A new mashup of Google Maps and weather information. View the area you are interested in, and the weather stations, cams, and forecasts are all tagged in the map. It also includes a weather radar overlay – an excellent feature! … Continue reading