I spent a lot of time building tools at work. There were things we needed to automate, but I didn’t have a server or any kind of programming platform to put things […]
Using a Google Sheet to Build Search Queries for Unknown Topics
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A Big Pile of Wikipedia Tools
When I wrote my Wikipedia article last week, I did some poking around and playing with various tools to see how I could make my editing as painless and productive as possible. […]
More Advertising Bullshit From Facebook
I know Facebook is busy working — possibly on a dating app or self-driving hoodies or the most efficient ways of stacking huge piles of cash — but I sure wish it […]
Falling In a Rabbit Hole and Landing on Wikipedia
Some days ResearchBuzz feels like a process of deliberately setting out to find rabbit holes and then struggling not to fall down them. Case in point was recently when I read about […]
ResearchBuzz is 20 Years Old Today
I did not start writing about search engines in 1998. It was actually in 1995 or 1996, when I was writing Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research. A couple of years later, […]
