Knowledge Handler

Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques

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Location: Independence, Ohio, United States

I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Quantcast.com

http://www.quantcast.com is a page that estimates information about a Web site, including traffic frequency. I am not expert enough to know if these estimates are close to reality, but they seem plausible.


There are similar Web sites (for example, WebSiteShadow.com) that try to do even more, but from looking at their results on academic institutions I am familiar with, I can tell that they are inaccurate.


-D.D.

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Saturday, December 05, 2009

Google Dictionary

Google has deployed online dictionary functions, according to a ComputerWorld blog entry by Seth Weintraub.


-D.D.