Web Finder 101 » Encyclopedia http://www.finder101.com Showcasing some of the World's most popular and useful websites... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:54:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Baidu http://www.finder101.com/baidu/ http://www.finder101.com/baidu/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 10:18:14 +0000 finder http://www.finder101.com/?p=243 Baidu is a Chinese and Japanese search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online collaboratively-built encyclopedia, and a searchable keyword-based discussion forum. Baidu was established in 2000 by co-founders, Robin Li and Eric Xu. Both of the co-founders are Chinese nationals who have studied and worked overseas before returning to China. Baidu.com Inc. is registered in the Cayman Islands. In April 2010, Baidu ranked 7th overall in Alexa’s internet rankings. In December 2007, Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index.

]]> http://www.finder101.com/baidu/feed/ 0 Reference.com http://www.finder101.com/referencecom/ http://www.finder101.com/referencecom/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:42:56 +0000 finder http://www.finder101.com/referencecom/ Reference.com is an online information source that provides encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, and other content. The site also provides text translation and serves as a web search engine portal for Ask.com.

Reference.com was launched by InReference, Inc in February of 1997. The site was later acquired by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. In 2005, Lexico announced that Reference.com would begin offering searches of Wikipedia content. In mid-2007, the site typically ranked in the mid-200s among the most popular sites on the Internet. On July 3, 2008, Ask.com acquired Lexico Publishing Group, LLC and its three properties: Thesaurus.com, Reference.com, and Dictionary.com.

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  • Type of site  Reference (encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, etc.)
  • Available language(s)  English
  • Owner  Ask.com
  • Created by  Lexico Publishing Group, LLC

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]]> http://www.finder101.com/referencecom/feed/ 0 The Free Dictionary http://www.finder101.com/the-free-dictionary/ http://www.finder101.com/the-free-dictionary/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:31:37 +0000 finder http://www.finder101.com/the-free-dictionary/ TheFreeDictionary.com is an online dictionary and encyclopedia which gathers information from a variety of sources. This site cross references the contents of Wikipedia, Columbia Encyclopedia, Hutchinson Encyclopedia (subscription), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, the Acronym Finder database, several financial dictionaries, legal dictionary, and other content.

The site also has a feature which allows a user to preview an article while positioning the mouse cursor over a link. One can also double click on any word and look it up in the dictionary. The site is run by Farlex, Inc./ Ahmed Group.

In January 2006, TheFreeDictionary released a home page which can be personalized by the user. The website used Ajax to provide individual users with a personal window to the web.

Farlex Inc. also maintains the companion title TheFreeLibrary.com, an online library of out-of-copyright classic books and a collection of periodicals of over two million articles dating back to 1984, and Sex-Lexis.com, a dictionary of sexual slang and other terms.

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]]> http://www.finder101.com/the-free-dictionary/feed/ 0 Encyclopedia.com http://www.finder101.com/encyclopediacom/ http://www.finder101.com/encyclopediacom/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:14:30 +0000 finder http://www.finder101.com/encyclopediacom/ As the Internet’s premier collection of online encyclopedias, Encyclopedia.com provides you reference entries from credible, published sources like Oxford University Press and Columbia Encyclopedia.

At Encyclopedia.com, you get free access to nearly 200,000 reference entries from sources you can cite. Plus, more than 50,000 topic summaries feature related pictures, videos, topic summaries, and newspaper and magazine articles from around the world. Encyclopedia.com also provides innovative tools that allow you to rate and sort the reference content you find to be the most useful.

Other Web sites that allow anyone to rewrite reference entries can be fun. But when you need credible information from reliable sources you can cite, Encyclopedia.com (www.encyclopedia.com) is the place to go.

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  • Headquarters and Technical Operations
    65 E. Wacker Place, Suite 400
    Chicago, Illinois 60601
    Phone: 312-782-3900
    Fax: 312-782-3901

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]]> http://www.finder101.com/encyclopediacom/feed/ 0 Citizendium http://www.finder101.com/citizendium/ http://www.finder101.com/citizendium/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:51:16 +0000 finder http://www.finder101.com/citizendium/ The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an open wiki project aimed at creating an enormous, free, and reliable encyclopedia. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, feels that we can achieve this crucial improvement over Wikipedia through measures such as adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names. We already have over 10,600 articles and hundreds of contributors.

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]]> http://www.finder101.com/citizendium/feed/ 0 Wikipedia http://www.finder101.com/wikipedia/ http://www.finder101.com/wikipedia/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:34:51 +0000 finder http://www.finder101.com/wikipedia/ Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project. The name “Wikipedia” is a portmanteau (a combination of portions of two words and their meanings) of the words wiki (a type of collaborative Web site) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia’s articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information.

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world; anyone can edit it. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites, attracting at least 684 million visitors yearly by 2008. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 10,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of today, there are 2,855,315 articles in English. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Learn More..

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  • Owner:  Wikimedia Foundation, Inc
  • Founders: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger
  • Other Projects: Wikinews, Wikiquote,  Wikispecies,  Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiversity,  Wiktionary, Wikisource, Meta-Wiki

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