Wiki-Guided Google Search Takes Your Wikipedia Topic Search And Builds A Set of Google queries around related topics. Say you want to learn more about Georgia O’Keeffe but you don’t know enough to make a detailed query for a search engine. But Wikipedia knows a LOT about Georgia O’Keeffe, so…
Finding reliable news through Google searches has become increasingly challenging, with results often cluttered by content scrapers and low-quality sites. To help you navigate the web and find genuinely useful news sources, we’re introducing the Non-Sketchy News Search (NSNS). This tool leverages Wikipedia to locate and populate Google searches with…
Mastodon Web Space Search Since it’s a decentralized social network, Mastodon is more difficult to search than a centralized platform like Twitter. But that doesn’t mean it’s not searchable. Every instance is a domain, after all, and domains are searchable via Google’s site: search. Mastodon Web Space Search lets you…
Google News search used to be lot more powerful in some ways than it is now. You could do things like limit your news results to a certain state. You can try it now using the syntax of location: and a US postal code, like location:nc, for example. When I…
There’s so much news going on these days that it’s hard to keep up, so I decided I needed something to give me a quick backgrounder on a person/place/thing, provide me with links to credible information, and offer pointers to possible news events in the last couple of years. My…