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Information Today
September 25, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Answers.com Buttresses NYTimes.com Reference Content NYTimes.com has added a selection of sources from Answers.com.   |
Information Today
December 17, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
xrefer Launches xreferplus Digital Reference Service for Libraries xreferplus is a giant online reference library that provides access to an aggregated and integrated collection of 100 reference books from 21 leading publishers, including Oxford University Press, Penguin, Grove, Houghton Mifflin, Columbia, and Macmillan... |
Information Today
February 26, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Answers.com's AnswerTips Ready to Bubble Up on Web Sites and Blogs With the AnswerTips service, webmasters and bloggers need not worry about their users drifting off to other sites while looking for the definition of a word. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Out-Googling The Top Search Engine Online encyclopedias yield more specialized results. |
Search Engine Watch
March 22, 2005
Mary Ellen Bates |
Just the Facts, Please While the major search engines continue to dabble with shortcuts to reference sources, Wikipedia and Answers.com have quietly evolved into two of the most comprehensive online search resources for quick, free and reliable ready reference information. |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2005
Chris Sherman |
The Best Online Reference Sites Looking for an answer to a specific question? Check out this list of the best reference sites of 2004, as compiled by the American Library Association. AskOxford.com... Cyberschoolbus... etc. |
Information Today
December 13, 2010 |
Answers.com Offers Random House Word Menu Online Word Menu, created by the late esteemed lexicographer, Stephen Glazier, is the ultimate writer's reference source: a reverse-dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, and collection of glossaries divided into logical categories to help users find the word they need. |
ONLINE
September 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Ready-Reference Collections: Bartleby and xrefer Bartleby and xrefer offer free searchable access to full-text standard reference works with hundreds of thousands of individual entries... |
Information Today
October 2000 |
Fact City Partners with Houghton Mifflin to Offer Online Access to Combined Reference Information Houghton Mifflin will provide Fact City with the brand-new fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography, Wall Street Words, and A Who's Who of Sports Champions... |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Got Answers.com Online reference site Answers.com extends its contract with Google to fill its website with relevant Google AdWords text ads. The deal sent Answers shares soaring. |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
Is Answers.com the Next Google? GuruNet's stock is soaring on the hopes that a new product will score with Web users. |
D-Lib
April 2002
Adam Hodgkin |
Integrated and Aggregated Reference Services: The Automation of Drudgery Few books are large enough to justify an annual subscription for online access. One way round this problem is to develop an aggregation service through which a collection of books can be given additional weight and visibility, sufficient to warrant active web distribution... |
Information Today
December 19, 2011 |
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf to Re-Launch in 2012 This will be the essential hub to all Oxford University Press reference content, re-launching with improved functionality and design. |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 1999 |
New Search Lookup Tool Available GuruNet, still in beta testing, lets you highlight words in a document and then send them to an online dictionary or thesaurus. You can also send the words as a query to one of several search engines. |
Information Today
April 2001
Peter Jacso |
Internet Insights - xrefer: An Xcellent British Dot-Com This free service masterfully integrates the best British ready-reference sources via cross-references and cross-links... |
Searcher
September 2004
Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Yet Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 2 Chat reference has not turned out to be the panacea many libraries hoped for. Our funds are too limited and our reference and basic library services far too important to squander money on services that don't work. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2005 |
Citations Tool Discourages Online Plagiarism In an effort to curb Internet plagiarism and show students that online works should be treated like those in print, GuruNet has launched a citations tool on its free answer-based search engine. |
InternetNews
November 8, 2006
David Needle |
The Answer is FAQ Farm Answers.com buys content rich wiki Web site. |
Information Today
December 12, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Answers.com Gets a Brainboost... Information Mapping Introduces Word-Based XML Authoring Tool... Thomson Gale Adds Medical Videos to Health Center... etc. |
Information Today
September 8, 2008 |
Credo Reference Launches Improved Interface Credo Reference, the online reference library, has completely updated and enhanced its interface. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Jeffrey T. Penka |
The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference: An Overview This discussion of technological challenges associated with digital reference focuses on challenges libraries face in establishing and supporting an efficient, patron-focused digital reference service, based on library values. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Answers Has a Way With Words Answers is acquiring Lexico -- the parent of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com -- in an all-cash $100 million deal. Investors, take note. |
Information Today
April 11, 2005
Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Google Unveils New Q&A Service Despite a few bugs and no search tab Google rolls out Q&A, a service providing quick answers to your questions. |
Searcher
August 2004
Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 1 Add it all up and one can see that virtual reference built on chat technology is a pretty expensive proposition. |
PC World
July 2005
Laurianne McLaughlin |
New Search Stars What's the trend in Web search? Newcomers and search giants cook up specialty services that get you information faster than ever. |
Information Today
June 28, 2010 |
Reference Universe now links to CQ Researcher and to CREDO Reference Reference Universe is an information service designed specifically to unlock a library's reference collection. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Janes & Silverstein |
Question Negotiation and the Technological Environment People seeking answers or providing them now have many more options for "question negotiation", in the broadest Tayloresque sense. Consulting an information professional continues to be one of those options. In fact, such professionals can now be much more accessible. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Cuban Comes Clean Free stock advice from a billionaire investor is worth every penny. If more successful private investors -- and even corporate CEOs -- were more forthcoming with what they owned, and why, the market would be a more illuminating place. |
Information Today
November 11, 2010 |
Continuum Titles Join Oxford University Press Digital Reference Shelf As part of a new distribution partnership Continuum is making a critical selection of its high-quality scholarly reference titles available through the Digital Reference Shelf platform, providing students and scholars with a single online source. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Wikipedia vs. the World With Google's Knol, Yahoo! Answers, and Answers.com's WikiAnswers, the number of sites looking to cash in on the Web 2.0 movement of user-created reference content is growing exponentially. |
PC Magazine
June 25, 2003
Bill Machrone |
Cold Light and Hot Gurus The new LEDs are as bright as lower-power halogen lamps but produce very little heat and consume far less power... If you do research or you just like digging a layer or two deeper, you owe it to yourself to try GuruNet and Copernic Agent. |
Reason
October 2007 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: An Epidemic of Meddling... Wikipedia and Beyond... Presidential Scouting Reports... |
InternetNews
June 24, 2005
Brian Livingston |
Attack of the Health Portals Patients and others interested parties can instantly get credible medical information from new health portals. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google Broken? Google is the undisputed paid-search champ; but if the search king is doing so well, why are its partners struggling? |
