Recently I was introduced to a site called InfoPlease (http://www.infoplease.com/). It not only contains a keyword search engine and index like many other search sites do, it has a loads of useful information. As their slogan, "All the knowledge you need" states, this site really does deliver an immense amount of information on a variety of subjects.
For example, you can search for statistics and polls (political, population, most popular movies and names etc), look up information on government officials, business reports and more.
The site also has an almanac, encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary and other electronic forms of research tools commonly used. Just think about all of the outlets and types of media you would go to when looking for information, the endless number of websites you could scour and roll them all into one; welcome to InfoPlease.
About.com is becoming a very popular reference site on the web. It has a multitude of information and I highly encourage you to check out all it has to offer, specifically as a more reliable alternative to Wikipedia. However, the section of About that I am most interested right now is the "Bestsellers" book section. Here you can find a database of recently released books organized by month as well upcoming releases with accompanying cover art. As an avid reader, I find this site very useful and as would other readers and journalists as well who are doing book reviews.
You can access this section of About.com directly by going to http://bestsellers.about.com/.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment