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Encyclopaedia Britannica now free
News Encyclopaedia Britannica is expected to announce Tuesday that it plans to split off its digital properties into a separate company and overhaul its Britannica.com Web site, making the encyclopedia's database free to users for the first time.
[October 19, 1999, 16:31]
Nuggets: Probably the best encyclopaedia in the world...
News Every day ZDNet UK News will bring you two Nuggets -- one just before lunch and the other just before you leave the office. So if you want the latest news on the weird and wonderful gadgets that bless our beloved industry, bookmark ZDNet UK News...
[March 8, 1999, 17:16]
Britannica.com launch, take two
News Britannica.com, the online arm of legendary Encyclopaedia Britannica, will re-launch its highly promoted Web site on Monday. Britannica.com offers the contents of Encyclopaedia Britannica's massive database of information, free of charge.
[October 28, 1999, 11:12]
Wikipedia knocked off the Web
News Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia was unavailable for some of Wednesday due to technical difficulties with its servers. The free encyclopaedia, which can be edited by anyone and built on Wiki software, suffered a power failure, a Wikipedia spokesman...
[April 19, 2006, 17:30]
Wikipedia racks up one million articles
News The team behind Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, is celebrating after the English version of Wikipedia racked up its one millionth article. Wikipedia acknowledged on Wednesday that it had faced criticism in 2005, but...
[March 2, 2006, 10:25]
Encarta will go free online within six to 12 months
News Microsoft's encyclopaedia, Encarta, will be available free online within the next six to 12 months according to Microsoft's reference product manager Jonathan Hulse. Microsoft's move follows Encyclopaedia Britannica's decision to put its 32 volumes...
[November 1, 1999, 12:48]
Wikipedia and Yahoo announce alliance
News Yahoo plans to add functionality to Yahoo Search that will give people shortcuts to content from Wikipedia, the community-based encyclopaedia. The online encyclopaedia is based on wiki technology, which is designed to let multiple people work on a...
[April 8, 2005, 10:05]
Wikipedia needs help to keep growing
News The team running Wikipedia has urged the open source development community to lend their support to help the encyclopaedia project grow and to combat Web bots that are damaging its content. In the opening talk at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels...
[March 1, 2005, 14:40]
Wikipedia gets custom interface
News The popularity of Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia to which anyone can contribute, is spawning a host of complementary tools and offshoots. Wikipedia is a popular destination on the Web, and a big part of its appeal is that any visitor can edit...
[November 30, 2005, 8:35]
Microsoft decides to shelve Encarta
News Microsoft has confirmed that it is moving out of the encyclopaedia business, ending its long-standing Encarta product. It will also stop selling Microsoft Student and Encarta Premium, paid software products that included the online encyclopaedia.
[April 1, 2009, 17:16]
Esquire tests wiki ethos
News When Esquire magazine writer AJ Jacobs decided to do an article about the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, he took an innovative approach: He posted a crummy, error-laden draft of the story to the site.
[September 30, 2005, 16:45]
Wikipedia accused of 'US-centric bias'
News An Australian academic has accused Wikipedia of "US-centric bias" over the way the online encyclopaedia's administrators edit user-generated entries. Anderson's claims come after an edit he made on the entry of the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez...
[February 12, 2008, 7:46]
Britannica tops Wikipedia in accuracy stakes
News Over the last couple of weeks, Wikipedia, the free, open-access encyclopaedia, has taken a great deal of flak in the press for problems related to the credibility of its authors and its general accountability.
[December 16, 2005, 8:25]
Nuggets: African culture and the mouse that sinks
News This is a multi-media encyclopaedia covering the historical and cultural achievements of Africa and people of African descent worldwide. This is the first encyclopaedia of its kind - nice to see something truly ground breaking from the company...
[January 28, 1999, 17:30]
More UK dot-coms come to the end of the road
News Online encyclopaedia: Online arm of Encyclopaedia Britannica laid off 25 percent of workers, about 75 staff, in November. Dot-com failures are continuing at an increasing pace, with one study estimating roughly one Internet startup closure per day.
[November 23, 2000, 15:25]
Open information in a Digital Universe
News I was brought on board to work on a collaborative expert encyclopaedia or expert-led encyclopaedia. This will include an encyclopaedia, as well as public domain books, participatory journalism, forums of various kinds and so forth.
[January 10, 2006, 12:05]
Demand pummels Nat'l Geographic
News The map feature launched just days after Encyclopaedia Britannica moved to put the entire encyclopaedia contents online, leading to a similar deluge of traffic. "It's really been surprising how quickly the word got out," said Mark Holmes, vice...
[October 29, 1999, 14:49]
Wikipedia planning a DVD version
News Making Wikipedia available on CD is another step towards the organisation's goal of providing the world with a free encyclopaedia, said Wales. The online encyclopaedia has already reached a large audience, averaging around 500 million page views a...
[April 7, 2005, 17:05]
A Year Ago: Demand pummels National Geographic
News The map feature launched just days after Encyclopaedia Britannica moved to put the entire encyclopaedia contents online, leading to a similar deluge of traffic. Net surfers go mad over maps Just 24 hours after National Geographic.com launched its...
[October 29, 2000, 6:02]
Can wikis change the Web?
News For all its benefits, some worry that those who participate in sites like Wikipedia or Wikinews are more interested in pursuing an agenda or personal opinions than the kind of accurate documentation expected of professionally edited resources like...
[November 16, 2005, 17:05]
