MetaFilter posts tagged with search and research

Ask MetaFilter is now obsolete!

psmealey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:36:14 -0800

The World's Largest Database of Frequently Asked Questions. FAQs for such critical questions as:

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Online research source list

LobsterMitten — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:17:08 -0800

100+ authoritative research sources that are available online. Various topics, real info. Think of it as a kind of do-it-yourself AskMe, or you know, a research library.(via Making Light)

Fishing for Information? Try Better Bait

Blake — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 05:18:25 -0800

Fishing for Information? Try Better Bait. [NYT] It's nice to see the NY Times take a stab at helping normal folk become better at searching the web. They point to Gary Price's resourceshelf.com, Greg R. Notess's searchengineshowdown.com and Danny Sullivan's searchenginewatch.com and Tara Calishain's researchbuzz.com.
It's just nice to see a story that's not All About Google for a change. Somewhat related articles: One over at O'Reilly On How To Build Your Own, and one at CNET on Nutch, an open-source web search engine.
Anyone have any favorite search engine tricks to share?

jkottke — Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:33:32 -0800

Steve Champeon, one of my personal favorite Web-type people, has a good article over at Webmonkey called RTFM: A Guide to Online Research. The gist of it is "look it up on the Web before you ask a stupid question on a mailing list", but it goes far beyond that in providing sources one can use to find answers to all sorts of questions.