Courtesy of Tom Hill
Institute Eaglezine blog today, I know of a
website called www.Refdesk.com which
contains links to hundreds of tools to track down almost any information. For
example, it links to dozens of encyclopedias, general ones like Britanica and
specific ones like legal and technology encyclopedias. It contains links to “Ask
the Expert” sites, all kinds of newspapers, specialty search engines, classic
reference works such as The Elements of Style, and much, much more. www.Refdesk.com is
like having the ultimate library reference desk at your fingertips, 24-7, free.
"The real world is much
smaller than the imaginary." - Friedrich Nietzsche
I asked the Google option on RefDesk a
question that came up today with a grandchild “which mammal sleeps the fewest
hours per night?” I knew the answer, and
tried to find it on the Google search on this website. It actually gave it to me on the very first hit. But I noticed that this one is called Custom
Google Search – wonder how that varies from the normal Google ? I found valuable links all over the RefDesk website
home page. For example check out https://gethuman.com/ This one tells you the phone number to get
quick and good support from many companies – avoiding their usually worthless
main-phone-number they post on websites and such. This one will tell you the real human line
where (hopefully a smart) person will answer and give you help or direct you to
the correct person quickly.
PS == the sleep question
answer is the Giraffe, sleeps only 2 hours a day (or night).
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