I love news searching. I do it a lot. Searching News sites instead of a general Web search engine is a good way to find items that are more detailed, more recent, […]
Three Ways to Make Searching Google News Less Annoying
A Tour of ResearchBuzz Search Engines from Google Custom Search
Many years ago — 15 sounds about right — there were a lot of resources for making your own custom search engines. Finding a group of sites you want to search (or […]
Create Super-Focused Twitter Searches — And Follow Them With An RSS Feed
Being able to monitor Twitter in a useful way for links is something I’ve been thinking about (okay, fretting over) for a long time. Nuzzel helps to a certain extent, and I […]
Using a Google Sheet to Build Search Queries for Unknown Topics
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 […]
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. […]
