Free audiobooks, podcasts and other educational audio content is popping up everywhere. LearnOutLoud has a directory of over 500 free educational audio and video titles. iTunes has a growing collection of free podcasts. And my local public library has a …[Continue]
Guess-the-Google Game
Google Image Search returns dozens of pictures based on a keyword word or phrase. Now turn this idea upside down, and imagine trying to guess the keyword based on the images! That’s the premise of Grant Robinson’s addictive Guess-the-Google game. …[Continue]
Google Scholar Library Links
Most school and public libraries pay for a variety of premium databases that can be accessed by patrons. Now you can configure Google Scholar to highlight articles that are available through your particular library by setting your Scholar Preferences. Read …[Continue]
Official Search Engine Blogs
Want to get to know your favorite search engines a little better? Try reading their official blogs. Here are a few of the biggest: Google Blog, Yahoo! Search Blog, MSN Search WebLog , Ask Jeeves Search Blog. If you prefer …[Continue]
Yahoo! Instant Search
Chat Acronyms
POS means “parents over shoulder” but COS doesn’t mean “children over shoulder.” It means “change of subject.” To keep up with all the latest chat acronyms, try NetLingo, Big Blue Ball or AbbreviationZ….[Continue]
Answers.com
If you are increasingly frustrated with “Results 1 – 10 of about 1,193,000,” try Answers.com. instead of your usual search engine. It is one of my favorite sites because it consistently finds the short answers I am looking for. Answers.com …[Continue]
DoubleTrust
A meta-search engine is one that submits your search query to multiple search engines simultaneously. DoubleTrust is one that combines results from the two most popular search engines: Google and Yahoo! It has some cool features, such as allowing you …[Continue]