Saturday, January 20, 2007

InfoFries Information Finder Renamed

Just about 2 months after its launch, InfoFries Information Finder has a new name - InfoFries Researcher. The URL for it has also been changed to http://infofries.freehostia.com/researcher/ (you could enter http://researcher.strangled.net/). Entering the old URL will redirect you to the new page.

The reason for this change is that the word "information" encompasses a wide area. I would like to narrow this down by renaming it to show that this tool is used primarily for research - either for assignments, school projects or perhaps general knowledge.

Furthermore, I also revamped the refinements. From the old refinements of News, Reference, Answers, Books and Definition, I have added the Quotations category and replaced Definition with Dictionaries. The rationale is that while searching for the definition of a word only returns the meaning of it, searching in dictionaries would offer you the definition plus grammar information, pronunciation, etymology etc.

I hope that these changes will improve your research experience while using this tool.

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