Sites sites sites!
A selection of sites I have added this month to our Delicious account: ebookish.com.au is an Australian blog about digital publishing, e-reading, related gadgets and the future of the book Birds Australia offers loads information and resources on Australian birds. Bike Map – Penrith ~ Windsor ~ Blue Mountains from the RTA, pdf download of the cycleway map for Penrith, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New Search Engine on the block
Blekko is a new search engine that enables you to tweak results to hopefully reduce links to spam pages: you can tilt your search results in the direction you like by using a category of bias, like ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative.’ Categorisation lists are applied by appending a ‘slashtag.’ Try it? blekko.com And from their ‘About” section: [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web
Edited version of a makeuseof.com article. See the whole article here The Invisible Web refers to the part of the WWW that’s not indexed by the search engines. To get a more precise idea of the nature of this ‘Dark Continent’ involving the invisible and web search engines, read what Wikipedia has to say about [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Semantic Search Engines
makeuseof.com have an article on semantic search engines, listing their 7 favourites. Here is an edited version of the article, looking at one of the semantic search engines. There’s no denying the power and popularity of the Google search engine, and in comparison to other similar search engines such as Bing, where results are based on page [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Trove: One stop search
You may have followed this project and it is now live. The National Library of Australia has launched TROVE: “a new discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians” which “supplements what search engines provide with reliable information from Australia’s memory institutions.” If you’re looking for anything related to Australian social sciences, literature, local or family [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Questions, questions, questions
Here’s an interesting article from MSNBC about the kind of questions often both wacky and weird that are posted into search engines and why people tend to use them . . . “Why won’t he call?” “When will the economy get better?” “Why did she have to die?” The questions are typical of those you’d [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wolfram Alpha Search Engine
This is the address for the new search engine Wolfram Alpha www.wolframalpha.com, but whenever I tried lately the page doesn’t seem to load properly. And here are some articles and blog entries (for and against and in between) on the new search engine: From the Guardian UK From Search Engine Land From Tech Crunch from [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Is 42 the answer or is it Wolfram Alpha?
There is a new type of search engine on the block: Wolfram Alpha. It can do some pretty good tricks. To find out more watch the demonstration (not a You Tube one so you can watch it at any time). The demo runs for about 13 to 14 minutes. Patou
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