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Dates: during 2000-2009
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GRAND LIVRE DE CUISINE Alain Ducasse's culinary encyclopedia is now available in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Happy Farm | 8/14/2005 | See Source »

When you want fast facts about someone or something, try plugging your query into the general search field or browsing the directory of reference material. You'll get dictionary definitions and encyclopedia articles culled from Wikipedia and other resources licensed from a variety of publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: 10 Cool Websites | 6/22/2005 | See Source »

...General Reference Answers.com www.answers.com When you want basic information about someone or something, try plugging your query into Answers.com's general search field, or browse the ever-expanding Directory of reference material. The information you pull up will include dictionary definitions and encyclopedia articles culled from resources licensed from a variety of publishers. The site draws heavily from Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia written entirely by volunteers-anybody can contribute or edit articles, and some 16,000 have (there are 500,000 entries in English; the 2005 Encyclopaedia Brittanica has 65,000). See here for more on the wiki phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 50 Coolest Websites 2005: News and Information | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...filtering tool so that you can control how much and what type of data appears on your map. MSN's main search page has already been revamped. When you search keywords, you can click through different sets of results: Web links, news items, images and Encarta encyclopedia entries, as well as a desktop option (which requires a separate download) that lets you search for relevant files stored on your PC. Starting this week, you can select Local to conduct a local search, map the results and view satellite images, all features that will be tightly integrated with the upcoming Virtual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 50 Coolest Websites 2005: In A Class By Themselves | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

Nupedia's problem was that it was a centralized, top-down system. The software had seven laborious stages of fact checking and peer review. Then Wales discovered wikis, and the pathological optimist had his eureka moment. His new goal was to create a free encyclopedia for all, in their own language, written by anyone. It took Wikipedia just two weeks to grow larger than its predecessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Wiki, Wiki World | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

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