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Ask Jeeves has announced several new "Smart Search" shortcuts
Ask Jeeves has announced several new "Smart Search" shortcuts, along with a new page preview tool.

The shortcuts allow searchers to enter a trigger word and get a relevant answer, often from a high quality source directly at the top of the results list. If an answer isn't actually shown, then a link is general provided to specialized database.

Smart Search shortcuts have been around at Ask Jeeves since April 2003, but the company has expanded the list with today's release. Here's the complete set:

*Movies: Synopses, top links, average critics' review scores, and local show times for all new film releases, as with Shrek. See the past SearchDay article, Ask Jeeves Famous People Search, for more about this particular shortcut.
* Wedding Registry: Access all wedding registry locations from Pottery Barn to Tiffany's for any bride and groom, as with this example
* Fed Ex and UPS Tracking: Enter the tracking number
* People Search: Find contact information for individuals across the United States, such as jack jones chicago illinois
* Definitions: Quick explanations of meanings for words and acronyms, such as define unstable.
* Navigation: Highlights the most-likely result for people looking for a specific site, such as with cnn.
* Sports Teams: Links to scores and more for all U.S. sports franchises, such as los angeles dodgers.
* Terror Alert: Real-time updates of the current terror alert level in the U.S. Just enter terror alert.
* Current Events: Editorially-selected links for breaking news and current events, such as gas prices in 90210.

Google's "Shortcut" Links are here

Lots of Search Engine resources here

The Librarians' Index to the Internet has a new resource collection devoted to the Olympics. It's available at http://lii.org/search/file/olympics

You'll find a variety of Olympics information (current and historical): athletes and sports, information about Athens, with a set of links to peripheral Olympics information, including the IOC, medals, mascots, the Olympic Torch, and the Special Olympics.
Run and check it out

British Library to archive all UK Web sites

The British Library, famed for a collection that includes a First Folio of Shakespeare, two Gutenberg Bibles and the scribbled lyrics to "I Want to Hold Your Hand," is starting the initial phase of a project that may eventually lead to it archiving all U.K. Web sites.

Have you seen Yahoo!'s new search engine

Here are some search tips for Nurses
There are also sites for consumers (that's you and me) here and here

Snowflake collection available, thanks to digital library

Patricia Donovan

He was an odd-duck Vermont farmer who invented photomicrography - the use of photography to capture images in a microscope - and produced thousands of stunning photographs of snow crystals to prove that no two are alike.

An idiosyncratic, self-taught meteorologist and photographer, Wilson Alwyn Bentley was America's first cloud physicist. He made 10,000 glass photomicrographic plates between 1880 and 1926, upon which he captured the images of 5,000 individual snow crystals and 5,000 images of dew and frost. This collection has been held since the 1930s by the Buffalo Museum of Science, although its fragility has prevented its widespread use by researchers or the public.
Over the years, the glass plates deteriorated, however, and his work might have been lost forever to researchers and the public had not a group of UB graduate students stepped in to save it for posterity.


As an alternate method of snow crystal presentation, Bentley often grouped several of his images together on one plate 

Bentley's images now are available to the public, thanks to students in the School of Informatics, who have developed a fully operational digital library for the Wilson A. Bentley Snow Crystal Collection

Astronomers using a global combination of radio telescopes to study a stellar explosion some 30 million light-years from Earth have likely discovered either the youngest black hole or the youngest neutron star known in the Universe. Their discovery also marks the first time that a black hole or neutron star has been found associated with a supernova that has been seen to explode since the invention of the telescope nearly 400 years ago.


The youngest black hole ever?
Photo Credit-NRAO 

Have you ever had a medical question that you were too embarrassed to ask a friend, family member, or even your doctor? Are you tired of the establishment medical sites that sugar coat their information and won't show you the pictures you need to see?
Try Afraidtoask.com

When Office Supplies attack!

Can't make it to your Anger Management Group?
Slug him a few times instead; he can take it.

If you've never seen this before, you've got to see it now

Are you ready to play 20 Questions with a computer?
You're in for a big surprise!

From Refdesk.com
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The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to over 20,000 books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.

Government Guide, from AOL, provides a searchable, browsable guide to online federal, state and local government services. Input your zip code to determine your state and local government resources including your elected officials
Fits well with FirstGov

MediLexicon has the world's largest online database of pharmaceutical and medical abbreviations - over 110,000 and growing. This database is updated daily to include new acronyms and abbreviations and their meanings, from the fields of medicine, pharmacy, biotechnology, agrochemicals, healthcare and more.

PC Magazine presents its choices for the 'Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without' in 12 categories. As of April 2004
Check it out
I guarantee there will be some sites you've never heard of

Medical and health information for a healthier life from the world renowned Mayo Clinic

MSN has a whole bunch of tools out. Check them out at MSN's Sandbox

Play the incredibly frustrating Dot Game
You've been warned
While you're at it, check out This is Tom

From BoardGames.com comes more than 70 types of Monopoly Games

I'm not really sure what you can do with this information, but here's a Pay Phone Directory
Its uses seem to be obvious except for two problems: How do you get your friend to be outside at the right time -- call him on the phone?
And what if someone is using the phone?


Hello? Hello? 

From SearchEngineWatch.com

Major Search Engines and Directories

MetaCrawlers and MetaSearch Engines

News Search Engines

Search Toolbars and Utilities

Kids' Listings

Specialty Search Engines

Miscellaneous Global Search Engines

Here's an interesting one: volunteer-organized engines
This is definitely worth looking at