The great strength of the Web is that anyone can contribute to it. And the great weakness of the Web is that anyone can contribute to it. The weakness part of that […]
9 Search Tools for Avoiding Infosewage on the Web
A Couple of Options for Getting Twitter Data if You’re Not Logged In
I’m seeing a lot of news stories in my Google Alerts about Twitter cutting off access to people who aren’t logged in. According to The Verge, if you’re not logged in to […]
Gossip Machine v2, Now With Z-Scores And Visual Indicators
I’ve made v2 of Gossip Machine and it’s about 1000% better! I made the first version of Gossip Machine last summer. It uses Wikipedia pageview data to find days when Wikipedia articles […]
Quickly Generate Several Date-Bounded Google News Searches For One Topic: Google News Timeline Template
I’m still thinking about search engines and searching as I always do, but there has been so much news the last couple of days about The Indictment that I’ve been thinking about […]
Find Local News With Nothing But A Street Address: StreetScoop Local News Search
I remain obsessed with the idea of meaningfully combining authoritative data with search to make richer results. When I can do it with local search, it’s all the more satisfying. Today’s Gizmo […]
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