Search Engines: Academic Search Engines
How To Save URLs To The Wayback Machine On Demand
Yesterday, Search Engine Land featured a post about the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine now providing access to more than 440 billion...
Wayback Machine Adds 160 Billion Indexed Pages In A Year, Surpasses 400 Billion Indexed Pages
The Internet Archive announced that the Wayback Machine, a huge internet archive of web pages dating back to 1996, has surpassed 400 billion...
Bing For Schools Offers Ad-Free Search Experience, SafeSearch Filtered Content & Lesson Plans
Bing announced Bing For Schools today, a new program designed for K-12 US schools, scheduled to launch later this year. In an effort to help...
Search Engine Designed By Denmark Researchers Helps Medics Diagnose Rare Diseases
Technical University of Denmark researchers have designed a search engine that indexes specific sets of databases to help identify rare...
Wayback Machine Now Has 240 Billion URLs
The Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive, one of the most useful and important Internet research tools, recently reached a major milestone....
DuckDuckGo Adds Zero-Click Info From Zanran
DuckDuckGo has added new “zero click” information from Zanran to its search results, giving users quicker access to some of the...
Academic, But Valuable: A Free Alert Service
JournalTOCS, sponsored by Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland, is a free service that has been online for many years and provides...
Zanran: New Search Engine That Unearths Data In Charts, Graphs & Tables
A few days ago, I was looking for a very specific piece of data: the average age of professors in the US. I did a Google search for...
Searching For Old Versions of Web Sites? The Wayback Machine Is New and Improved
The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to “build an internet library” and offers a searchable collection of digital collections....
Google Launches Public Data Search & Charts During Wolfram Alpha Demo
During the Wolfram Alpha demonstration today, the Google Blog announced the launch of their own structured data search feature that allows you...
Microsoft Kills Encyclopedia Encarta
Ars Technica reports that Microsoft has decided to discontinue their encyclopedia software, Encarta. Both the MSN Encarta reference Web sites as...
BioNumbers – Specialty Biology Answer Search Engine
Today, I met with Dr. Ron Milo who works in the field of plant sciences at Weizmann Institute in Israel, who showed me a specialty search engine...
Of Permanent Value: Archiving The Web
I love working for Ask.com as Director of Online Information Resources and also compiling and editing ResourceShelf and DocuTicker. Yes,...
Scholarly Science Search Tools Explored
Gary Price has complied a comprehensive list of science search tools that are available via the internet. He explored several science search...
TimeSearch: Searching Through History
TimeSearch is an interestingly different search engine, since the focus is just on time, as one may expect from the name. It’s the...
UFO Crawler: The Truth Is Out There & Searchable
IBM and Yahoo teamed up to bring to you UFOCrawler, a search engine that is about finding sources on “UFO Sightings, time travel,...
Microsoft Releases Live Search Books Beta
The Live Search Blog announced that Microsoft released a beta named Live Search Books this morning. Plus they enhanced Live Search Academic by...