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Taking a Look at the Bing Reference Homepage

Happy to see Microsoft working on doing its thing with Bing. I’m referring of course to the new Bing Reference page, which was launched earlier this month. The new page, at...

Started in ResearchBuzz • 2 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news, bing, reference, wikipedia
Google Squared Adds Some Improvements

This past summer I reviewed the new Google Squared, and came away interested but somewhat disappointed — Google Squared missed information on several of the tests I tried and sometimes inserted...

Started in ResearchBuzz • 2 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news, google
Google Announces Extensions to Its Search Options

Google’s “Search Options” side panel isn’t new. It was launched last May to test a bunch of different filters by which you could narrow down your search results. You can read...

Started in ResearchBuzz • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news
Directory of Social Networks

I stumbled across this while doing some different research and wanted to share it because it looked useful. I’m talking about Social, at http://www.social.com. It’s a directory of social...

Started in ResearchBuzz • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news, google, networks, social
What’s Trending Where on Twitter?

There are plenty of places that will tell you the hot keywords on Twitter right this minute. Last week I learned about a place that will let you specify a location and then tell you the hot Twitter...

Started in ResearchBuzz • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news, mapping, twitter
Google’s Nifty Document Viewer

Sometimes the simplest things are the most useful, you know? Google has announced a handy dandy Docs viewer, available at http://docs.google.com/viewer. This viewer allows you to generate links to...

Started in ResearchBuzz • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news, google, pdf, powerpoint, viewer
A Second Look at Google Fast Flip

I am a confirmed text crawler. I can skip the online video and the Flash splash pages. Just give me lots and lots of text news stories. Because of this I kind of gave Google Fast Flip a miss when it...

Started in ResearchBuzz • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news, google, visual
Google Answering Math Questions in Google Suggest

Is this new and I just missed it? Google has had, for quite a while ago, the ability to answer math questions. It’s handy when you need to do some quick division and subtraction (though if you...

Started in ResearchBuzz • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news, calculator, google, math
Web Sites Aggregates Research Announcements from LOTS of Universities

You might have heard about Futurity; it launched in beta in March, but did not have its official launch until a couple of weeks ago. Futurity, available at http://futurity.org, contains information...

Started in ResearchBuzz • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news, academics, research
FCC Takes a Stand on Net Neutrality, Opens Web Site

The White House blog isn’t the most gripping read in the world (I think my favorite government blog is either Gov Gab or the Library of Congress blog) but you can get some good announcements on...

Started in ResearchBuzz • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news, fcc, government, politics, web
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