Web Tools
We will use most, if not all, of the following Web sites during the semester.
Web search
Clustering search engine
- Clusty : clusters your search results into related sites. Can help you refine a search.
- Grokker : an interactive tool for understanding the clusters of results returned by your searches
- Mooter : a visual clustering search engine
- iBoogie : a clustering search engines for Web pages
- SurfWax : a tool for finding and using information
News monitor
- Yahoo News : news monitor and search for Yahoo
- Google News : news monitor and search for Google.
- FindArticles : search millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications
Paid news search and monitoring services
- Hoovers : news and business search engine (Ross has a subscription; access this through Kresge)
- Northern Light : contains newswire and journal articles not available on the public Web ($9.95/month)
Page monitor
- WatchThatPage : a tool for monitoring changes on the Web
Email alerts
- Yahoo Alerts : email alert service from Yahoo
- Google Alerts : email alert service from Google
- Google Alert : email alert service from Google Alert (a company separate from Google)
Blog searching
- Blogpulse : provides several tools you can use to see what' currently hot in the blogosphere
- Bloglines search : search current and archived blog entries for specific words
- Technorati : search blogs by user-specified tags
- Google Blog Search : finds blog entries on specific topics
- Blogdigger : search blogs
- Feedster : over 48 million indexed feeds
- Blog catalog : blog directory and blog search engine
Keyword searchable RSS feed generator
- Kebberfegg : a tool for generating keyword-based feeds from multiple resources
Other information tools
- Dapper : a service which makes it easy to access and distribute content from any website
- Yahoo Pipes : an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator
- Screen Scraper : extracts information from Web sites
- openkapow : allows for an easy point and click interface to mashup anything on the web that has a URL
- furl : find, share, and save Web pages (not just bookmarks)
Student reference tools
- RefDesk — the single best source for facts
- Wikipedia Reference Desk — …
- Acronym Finder. You might also try abbr.com .
- eHow — how to do just about everything
- Academic Info — educational resources
- Infomine — scholarly internet resource collections
- Babel Fish — language translation
- The Elements of Style by Strunk
- Bartleby — collection of general resources
- RateMyProfessors
Other tools
- Bloglines : a Web-based tool for managing RSS feeds
- TiddlyWiki : a reusable non-linear personal web notebook
- delicious : a Web site for managing bookmarks
- Firefox : the web browser that you should be using when browsing the Web
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