When I first heard of Wolfram|Alpha, in a news story, the search engine tool sounded pretty cool. And it is. For some reason I don’t recall, I found myself at the site and decided to experiment with various keywords to see what results were returned. There may have been a link to something in one [...]
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Playing Around with Wolfram|Alpha
Posted: August 5, 2011 in BOAL, Databases, FROMKE, HAY, HILL, Iowa, LENTZ, Search Engines, South Dakota, VAN NOTETags: search engines, surnames
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This year was the first time I’d heard of RootsTech, a conference on the intersection of technology and genealogy, and for good reason: it was the first one ever. I didn’t have the opportunity of attending in person, but did catch some live video streams of a few presentations. Now, however, these videos are available online, [...]
Here are some of the search engines and other tools I have been sorting through since looking through what was mentioned in Going Beyond Google. Unfortunately the authors left out some good resources, but I have, while writing this, been able to track down many sites I’ve used in the past and some I’ve just [...]
So “Google isn’t up to the task when it comes to serious research. . . .”? That’s what the authors of Going Beyond Google say. I don’t quite agree, especially with the so many features being added. Older classics such as Google Books and Scholar often provide worthwhile results. However, the duo does provide a [...]
