One of my favorite to read, and quite handy, resources is celebrating their 400th issue today. Congratulations Tara! (Tara Calishain, an Internet search expert and author or co-author of over a dozen books, including the 2003 New York Times bestseller Google Hacks. Her latest book, Information Trapping, was published by New Riders Press in December 2006.

ResearchBuzz, a free weekly newsletter that covers search engines, databases, and other online information collections has been online since April 1998, ResearchBuzz.com is celebrating their milestone issue with several new offerings on the Web site plus a venture into a metaverse. (I peeked at earlier when it wasn’t quite done.)

Naturally I find a foray into Second Life quite neat.

Their virtual location in Second Life makes the newsletter and RSS feed available to Second Life citizens who wish to read in that medium. Plans include a classroom and in-world directory of educational, search, and museum resources in Second Life. Check out this page for a map of the ResearchBuzz location or here is the SLURL if you want to head in direct or here to sign up for Second Life for free.

The new features include:

Updated Tools

Kebberfegg is a one-stop site for generating keyword-based RSS feeds. You can generate keyword-based feeds from over 50 different sites in over ten categories. Lists of feeds are available in HTML or OPML. Kebberfegg is free!

New Search Engines

ResearchBuzz has several specialty Google search tools available, including one of Time’s Top 50 Web sites for 2004, Cookin’ With Google. It uses Google’s new Custom Search Engine program, to provide two new specialty search tools:

- Just Ask Anybody — Just Ask Anybody searches the archives from over 75 different Ask-An-Expert and Advice sites. For an easy-to-remember URL use http://www.justaskanybody.com.

- Search Official Blogs — Search Official Blogs does just what it says — searches the official blogs of over 150 celebrities, politicians, companies, educational institutions, musicians, and public figures. Search the blogthoughts of the rich and famous. Easy to use remember URL at http://www.searchofficialblogs.com.

Once again congratulations ResearchBuzz.

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Other books written by or co-authored by Tara. Some are a bit dated, and I am sure I may have missed some, but if you want to sharpen your research or information handling skills- especially with Google- Tara is truly a master at Net research.

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