Web Search–Google
Last week, we alerted you to Chris Sherman’s article about some changes at Google. Today, the “official word”. Google now provides access to material in the following formats:
-Adobe PostScript (ps)
-Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku)
-Lotus WordPro (lwp)
-MacWrite (mw)
-Microsoft Excel (xls)
-Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
-Microsoft Word (doc)
-Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
-Microsoft Write (wri)
-Rich Text Format (rtf)
-Text (ans, txt)
You can limit your search to any of these filetypes by using this syntax, filetype: or by using the pull-down option on the advanced search interface page. You can click to view the document online or view a text only version of the content via the Google site. In other Google news, Image Search users now have an advanced search option. Users will be able to limit their search results by file type (gif or jpeg), color (black and white, grayscale or full color), or to a specific domain (just images on microsoft.com). Finally, Google now has translation support for the Arabic and Turkish.

Bureau of Accuracy!!!
Politics–United States–Almanacs
Almanac of American Politics Was Just A Demo
Oops, sorry. Last week we noted that the The Almanac of American Politics was available free on the web must have been only a demo. The site now requires a subscription. I have removed the link. Oh well! Thanks the the VAS&ND who emailed me with the update.

News Brief
Web Search–Lycos
Lycos.Com Home Page Gets Face Lift
Remember, Lycos gets it’s crawled database from AllTheWeb. Keywords results are the same in either database. The ATW results are labeled as “Web Results”.

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources
Small Business–United States
SBA (Small Business Administration) Updates FAQ’s, FAQ Site
22 FAQ’s on various subjects. They can be full-text searched using this search engine.

Firearms–United States–Statistics
Source: BJS
Firearm Use by Offenders
Describes firearm use of State and Federal prison inmates.
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