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Infomaniac: WeBlog
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Yesterday's News
(I meant to add these posts yesterday, but got to it late and today I find I've now been scooped by Sheila Lennon. Good company.)
Answers.com is a new free service which was formerly called GuruNet, a pay service. Their claim is that they give you 'answers, not links'. It seems to be true. I've tried several searches and find that it's particularly useful for geographic or people information, since it searches encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books. Try a place search (Coral Gables), or a search like Jeb Bush: you'll be impressed. Note links to news stories and more. Also note that on the left, there are links to perform the same search on news, images, even blogs. I ran the blog search and found results from Technorati, including links to the entry on this topic I wrote on my journalism blog, as well as Sheila Lennon's link. Even more at Answers.com: if you like doing these searches in your browser, you can also download a version that will work in any software on your computer. Even better, if you like to browse, there's a whole Directory page that can lead you to reference books that cover your topic. On the nerd front, Google has redesigned their 'Groups' section, and put highlights of 20 years of Usenet online. Usenet is the Internet messaging system that preceded email, IM, blogs, and just about everything else, and was the way that researchers communicated. Eventually, around the late '80s, it became a more popular communications system. The entire archive -- including posts back to 1981 -- is searchable on Google, and here are listed, in timeline format, many of the most interesting posts. First mention of Michael Jordan: Feb 1983. First mention of Madonna: July 1983. On a serious note, the first discussion of AIDS in 1982. How things have changed. posted by liz at 11:31 AM 
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