QuotationsBook
April 17, 2008
Another quotation site to add to your bookmarked list: QuotationsBook.
Quotations Book is almost certainly the best quotation site in the world. We have 40,000+ quotes by 7,000+ people with hundreds added each day!
While I wouldn’t call it the "best" site, it is good and definitely one to check when you’re looking for something clever for your husband’s birthday card or finding a quote for a user.
And don’t forget that the information contained in sites like these (which often run off of behind-the-scenes databases) don’t show up in web search results. You need to check these sites individually to get at that data. A pain, yes, but such is the invisible web.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Can you explain a bit more what you mean about it not showing up in search results?
April 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am
I mean that when you search in a web search engine (like Google, Yahoo, etc.) then the results you get back often do not include all of the wealth of data that is included in many websites whose data resides in databases that the web search engine’s spiders/robots can’t get to. As a result, to find that information, you have to go to the site itself and search there. Many quotation sites are like that — the quotes they contain simply don’t come up if you do a general web search for a particular phrase or quote.