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Sunday, 15th July 2007

Briefs: Answers.com Acquires Dictionary.com for $100 Million; Ask.com Featured on SEL; Microsoft On Search Gains & Live Search Club

+ Microsoft On Search Gains & Live Search Club
Direct to the Live Search Club where you can win prizes (how does an XBox sound?) here. One game on the site is: CrossWire.

Select a fact and match it with the related fact on the opposite side. Make it through the first two CrossWire rounds and you'll move up to the HighWire stage. Watch out for bogus facts

Say it isn't so...bogus facts? This game could serve as a tool to remind people of all ages that critical info skills are crucial, in fact they are more crucial now than ever before.

+ Ask.com: Today's Google Free Alternative (via Search Engine Land)
Part of SEL's "Google Free Friday" series (Yes, of course, it's Monday and Danny explains the delay.) Quick note from Gary: For more about Ask.com, we recently posted an in-depth look at many features (including a few Danny doesn't mention) in this ResourceShelf post from early June. Like we always remind you, Gary is Director of Online Information Resources at Ask.com. However, ResourceShelf and DocuTicker are independent. Finally, like we always say, be it Ask.com, Exalead, Clusty, Live.com, Yahoo, Google or one of the thousands of specialty databases out there like the free special collections from NewspaperARCHIVE.com, good search and IR is about using the proper tool at the proper time, not only on Friday's :-) Like info pros have always done, a good librarian has always learned their collection. Yes, of course, it's more challenging since we have so many tools but no one said it was going to be easy. Enjoy the challenge.

+ More eBooks from Oxford University Press Coming to Ovid

+ Answers.com Acquires Dictionary.com for $100 Million

Lexico [owners of Dictionary.com] is a leading online provider of reference products and services, which attracted approximately 11.5 million unique monthly users in the U.S. during the month of June 2007, according to comScore Media Metrix.


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