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GreenYour.com, First Search-Based Guide to Eco-Friendly Living, Opens to the Public for Earth Day
Categories: Green Lifestyle, Web Search Tools - Tuesday Apr 22, 2008 12:25GreenYour Media LLC today announced the beta launch of GreenYour.com - the first search-based tool that allows you to fill in the blank for whatever you seek to green. Whether you want to green your lighting and your heating, or your dating and your voting, GreenYour guides you from important facts and actionable tips to cutting-edge products you can click and buy ? allowing you to cross items off your green “to do” list.
UNData Search Tool for Statistics
Categories: Energy, Environment, International, Libraries, Web Resources, Web Search Tools - Friday Feb 29, 2008 06:13Via ResearchBuzz. Note that U.N. energy and environmental statistics are covered.
Thanks to Novalawcity for the pointer to UNData, a search tool for UN Statistics. It’s available at http://data.un.org/ aaaaand it’s in beta.
It looks like a regular search engine, with different tabs for searching data and glossary. (A “more” tab has additional options: going to an advanced search, browsing available statistics, looking at information by country, and reviewing available sources.) Suggested searches are shown along with a list of databases (the front page notes that more databases will be added “in due course” and that over 55 million records are currently being searched.)
I did a search for “south africa” exports. I got 118 results. Results look very Googly except for the left nav which allows you to filter by data type — in this case key indicators, MDG, National Accounts Official Country Data, and Trade. The results themselves allow you to preview a sample of the data, download the data (sometimes just in one format, like XML, and sometimes in multiple format, like tab- or comma-delimited), or explore similar data sets. You can click on the name of the data set to explore it and filter by various data points. The data set pages also contain the source name, source’s home page, and contact information.
There’s a FAQ available for this tool but it doesn’t say how often the database of records is updated. You can also get a little more information about the project here.
Silobreaker Brings a Graphical View to News Research
Categories: Web Search Tools - Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 03:37Read the full story in Info Today.
While news might be a readily available commodity in our internet world, a small U.K.-based company thinks there?s a better way to present it to users?with relational analysis and explanatory graphics that provide users with contextual insight. Silobreaker (www.silobreaker.com) has officially launched its new search service for news and current events. Its goal is to provide meaning, context, and insight to content using easily understood graphical tools. Silobreaker pulls current content from approximately 10,000 news, blog, research, and multimedia sources. It then automatically and on-the-fly extracts and tags people, companies, topics, places, and keywords; understands how they relate to each other in the news flow; and puts them in a visual context for the user. The free service is aimed at anyone wanting an in-depth perspective on current news for personal or business use, but it should prove especially appealing to journalists, researchers, scientists, consultants, marketing professionals, and industry analysts.
See the results of my search on Climate Change for an example of search results. An interesting and potentially useful tool.
?Recycling? Top Search Request in 2007
Categories: Green Lifestyle, Recycling, Schools, Web Search Tools - Wednesday Dec 19, 2007 10:54Read the full story in Water & Wastewater News.
Yahoo! of Sunnyvale, Calif., recently announced the “Top Trends in Search,” as told through the billions of searches in 2007 conducted by millions of searchers around the globe. The “Top Trends in Search” reveals a portrait of a culture on the brink of technological breakthroughs and environmental action, among other things.