2004 September

Recommendation for Search Interoperability - The U.S. Federal Government should adopt a search service standard to enhance interoperability among networked systems that aid in the discovery of and access to government information. The adopted search service standard should be the ISO 23950 international standard, thereby providing a high degree of interoperability across many communities of [...]

SRW defines a web service for searching databases containing metadata and objects, both text and non-text. The SRW Initiative builds on Z39.50 along with web technologies. Building on Z39.50 semantics enables the creation of gateways to existing Z39.50 systems; web technologies reduce the barriers to new information providers allowing them to make their resources available [...]

Early English Books Online (EEBO) - TCP (Text Creation Partnership) - EEBO: Early English Books Online (EEBO) makes available online more than 125,000 titles published between 1473 and 1700, starting with the earliest printed works in the English language. It reproduces the works listed in the Short-Title Catalogue I (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); the Short-Title [...]

Search Engines 2 - Looking for a search engine or web directory? Search Engines 2 offers over 12,500 links to local, regional, national, and foreign internet search engines, web directories, pay per click search engines and meta search engines, many of which accept free/paid web site submissions and advertising. Nice site by Michael Wong. This [...]

Yahoo Search Blog - A good resource to discover the happenings at Yahoo Search. Also lists a number of tricks to make your yahoo searching easier and more productive.

Knowledge Discovery is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog powered by Subject Tracer™ Bots that is a comprehensive listing of knowledge discovery resources and sites on the Internet. Khowledge discovery has been one of my obsessions over many past years and these resources I have discovered using my bots and browsing to create a number of [...]

Identity Commons - Ask these questions:
* you could navigate the Web using one easy-to-remember password?
* you could enter your personal data once and use it on many Web sites?
* you had a simple way of determining how information about you is used and disclosed by others?
* you could ensure that your personal information [...]

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Central Bank Research Hub has established this facility to promote the search and dissemination of economic research published by central banks.
The facility is built on the principle of crawlers that search research content from selected central banks websites on a daily basis. The Research Hub e-mail alert will keep [...]

PBCore - The Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary - Intrinsic to digital technology is the ability for each piece of content to carry with it some data describing that content in a useful way. This descriptive data is called metadata. To address the need to manage metadata within public broadcasting’s diverse community, version 1.0 of PBCore [...]

DigiCULT Resources - Resource Discovery & Information Retrieval - An excellent listing of resource discovery and information retrieval resources and sites compiled and annotated by DigiCULT. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Campaign Radar 2004 - Through the Nov. 2 Presidential election, Campaign Radar 2004 delivers daily analysis on politics and campaign-specific issues and trends among blog writers. Every day, the system analyzes a large set of blog postings that contain political opinion to determine buzz and trends about presidential and vice-presidential candidates. The system also tracks [...]

Internet Hoaxes is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog powered by Subject Tracer™ Bots that is a comprehensive listing of Internet hoaxes resources and sites on the Internet. This resource I have continually updated since 1996 and covers the latest happenings in all areas of Anti-Virus, AntiHoax, AntiMyth, AntiFraud, AntiChain Letter and Anti-Spam sites on the [...]

Search Engine Radio is the only Internet talk radio show 100% dedicated to Search. From the best strategies for optimizing your site, to the best software tips for tracking pay-per-click campaigns, to the latest news about Google, tune in to SEORadio.com to keep up on everything about Search. Each week, host Brad Fallon talks with guests [...]

Hitwise Real-Time Competitive Intelligence - Each day Hitwise reports on how 25 Million Internet users interact with over 500,000 websites across 160+ industries. Only Hitwise can provide marketers with timely and applicable information on how their online presence compares with their competitors. A valuable compeitive intelligence resource mainly for large companies with large budgets for [...]

Copernic: Software to Search, Find, Track and Manage Information - Copernic offers a complete suite of search agents that do an excellent job of searching, finding, tracking and monitoring, and managing the information they generate in formats that can be readily used in your search and research. This has been added to the tools section [...]

Scoop is a simple, easy-to-use business information service that pulls competitive intelligence, company research reports business news to your personal e-mail and website accounts. It can also push key information to your work group, website or marketing audience. Scoop saves time. It delivers actionable information for executives in sales, marketing, product development — jobs where [...]

Internet Experts is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog powered by Subject Tracer™ Bots that is a comprehensive listing of Internet expert resources and sites on the Internet. This is an excellent resource to find the expert you are looking for on the Internet. This resource lists alphabetically all the resources covering every type of expert [...]

Quote Finder - Philipp Lenssen’s new Quote Finder checks possible sources or quotations for every sentence of a text using Google. This could be used for a variety of reasons, one of them to check if a text is really original, or copied from another work. You could also find out if you have used [...]

People Finder Guide - This guide created by Genie Tyburski of the Virtual Chase will help you find online sources of public records as well as other Web-based people finding tools. When searching public records such as court filings, property records or the records of a government agency, understand that you will often find details [...]

Alexa Web Search - Founded in April 1996, Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and constantly improving with the participation of its users. Alexa Related Links and Traffic Rankings are the embodiment of this vision, growing and getting better as more people join the Alexa community of smart [...]