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How to find a book
How To Find A Book Without Knowing The Title Or Author by Saikat Basu, makeuseof.com (Aug 31, 2009) Has tools and tips for finding books online starting with a search at Google. Mentions several book search services. Also recommends using...

Biking with Google Maps
Bike Directions Added to Google Maps, by Ian Paul, PCWorld (Mar 10) Another gift from Google -- "Google on Wednesday launched bicycle directions for Google Maps making it easier for cyclists to plan routes in 150 U.S. cities including Boston,...

Tribe mentality
Self-selecting what we know , by Lisan Jutras, Globe and Mail (Mar 7) "The Net is where we go to seek out our tribe – and that can shrink our world view" Personalized news is not called the "daily me"...

Book: The Tyranny of Email
Message undeliverable . Alison Motluk. Globe and Mail (Mar 9) "The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox, by John Freeman, Scribner, 244 pages, $32.99" Some figures on email just in case you didn't know that it overwhelms...

Math at the Search Engines
Math Engines: For Multiplying Mixed Fractions, It’s Wolfram Alpha Over Google & Bing, by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land (Mar 9) If you're doing math, Google will handle fraction but give you decimal; Bing will show fractional answers; and Wolfram...

Sending Very Large Files
How to save and share ridiculously large files, by Josh Lowensohn, WebCrawler (Mar 9) Files are getting bigger and bigger. How can you share the multi-MB files - or even one that is 1 GB with friends or colleagues? This...

Google's Public Data Explorer
Google launches tool for searching public data, by Tom Krazit, Relevant Results (Mar 8) Could Google do for public-data search what it did for scholarly? Public Data Explorer is new tool from Google Labs - "The site takes public data...

Using Google Suggest
Exploring Google Suggest, Google Operating System (Mar 7) Google suggest - the type-ahead auto-complete lines - that has been built up from actual searches - might reveal more. Simon Every has been finding patterns - the power of suggestion. "There...

Street views in Europe
EU Privacy Push May Drive Google To Stop Updating Street View In Europe by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land (Mar 8) Stret views anywhere are useful to tourists or others new to the area. But some find it an invasion...

Google's Search Stars
Google’s Letting You Star Your Searches, ResearchBuzz (Mar 8) Being able to star results you like in Google will be a good thing - better than search wiki - but Google is rolling this out gradually and you might not...

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