Web Sites of Interest

Compiled by Susannah Tredwell

Search Engines and the Internet

NewsSeer is automated news service that crawls approximately 30 news sources. NewsSeer attempts to tailor the stories shown to your interests; it determines this by a) what stories and source you choose to look at, and for how long and b) by information you give it (ranking news stories, indicating which stories you have no interest in). For more about NewsSeer, you can read Search Day's article (October 22, 2002) on the subject.

Specialty search engines provides a list of annotated links to specialized search engines, grouped by theme area (e.g. domain searching, legal search engines, government searching.

Canada

Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is "a digital library providing access to over 1,145,000 pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century." It is an ongoing project with "1,250,000 pages of colonial, federal, and provincial government publications" [to] be added to the library by 2004.

Reference

BBC News World Edition: Country Profiles provide "an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries."

Dictionary of Spanish provides an online Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary with over 56,508 entries and "10,369 audio pronunciations."

Other

tinyurl.com allows users to compress a long, long URL into a significantly shorter one, making it much easier for cutting and pasting.

EdgarIQ provides searchable full-text access to EDGAR filings. It allows you to search just by industry sector.

Barbie Keiser has written two articles listing environmental sources on the Internet in the September 2002 and November 2002 issues of Searcher.

And just for fun...

Googlism searches Google and then, based on the results, tells you "what website owners think about the name or topic you suggested."

Barbie is offering three new career possibilities for Barbie as part of its "I Can Be" Career Series: Librarian, Architect and Policewoman. If you'd like to vote, go to http://www.barbie.com/parents/products/products_icanbe2.asp and scroll to the bottom of the above listed page, down in the right hand corner.