Saturday, December 17, 2005

ResearchBuzz

I found out about the site ResearchBuzz, written and edited by Tara Calishain, from the book "The Search : How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture", by John Battelle.

The About ResearchBuzz section says,

"ResearchBuzz is designed to cover the world of Internet research. To that end this site provides almost daily updates on search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, large compendiums of information, Web directories -- whatever. If in doubt, the final question is, "Would a reference librarian find it useful?" If the answer's yes, in it goes!"


Sounds good to me.

Tara Calashain also has a blog called Tech Talk. This Tech Talk link points to Merriam-Webster's top ten words of the year based on search popularity.

Interesting to see what people were thinking about. This year's top word was integrity, last year it was blog. This year the words levee and inept rounded out the top ten at number nine and ten.