Shifting Sidebars #16
World Press - USA Today. Most widely read newspaper in US, followed closely by Wall Street Journal. Everybody else is quite a ways behind. Believe it or not.
Our Net - Yahoo! Search Guide. How Yahoo! orders results on its various search services. Another useful Yahoo! reference page is its Webmaster Resources and Yahoo! Search Feedback (last two not in sidebar).
Sphere. New blog search engine which tries to do a little more. After looking at the blog search results, try the newest (beta) add-on, Featured Blogs (on your search topic), and especially, Related Media (separately covers photos, news, books, and podcasts).
AlltheWeb LiveSearch - The venerable search engine AlltheWeb offers a new search interface which works magic. Watch the screen after you enter your search term/s. You get search suggestions and a GoTo drop-down menu option which, like Sphere, takes you quickly to other resources. AlltheWeb is one of few major search engines with solid Indonesian-language holdings, so you’re likely to find more such material here if your search term/s occur only in Indonesian.
Google Notebook. If you don’t yet have a webpage clipper/grabber add-on or standalone program, you might want to give Google’s flexible new offering a try. You must be signed in to your Google account to use it. It works right in your browser. Available for quick download as a Firefox or Explorer extension. Myself, quite happy with ScrapBook.
Google Page Creator. Yes, Google will let you create your very own website. In minutes. Only a slight exaggeration.
Google Trends. Lets you see what the world is searching for — via Google’s web search engine. One of the most fascinating tools Google has yet created. Type your search word/s. You get — on the results page — two search volume and news volume timeline graphs, then, in three tabs, the Cities, Regions (actually, countries), and Languages in which all this searching occurred. As an experiment, try everything using keyword ‘Indonesia,’ then try ‘Bantul’ to see the power of this tool.
Very powerful instrument for net researchers.
Nice Blogs - Tajuk Radio68H. Maintained by Nice Friend Air on the sometimes erratic Blogger service.
Well, I tried to get you a legal copy of Celtic Woman’s soaring The Soft Goodbye for Nice Songs, but failed. Lyrics easily available. I got my much-played copy via the now fully legit Napster (endless music for a monthly subscription fee). But … you may be able to hear it five times for free if you go to the Napster homepage, search for The Soft Goodbye under Track in the drop-down menu, and then register (later paid download optional). The free full-length sample songs are a new feature I’ve not tried, so, no guarantees. If it works, you get a lot of high-quality streaming music free as an incentive to signup. Is this note a Napster commercial? Ahhhhhh, ya. 
