Do you ever find yourself doing research on a person where you have a name and a lot of biographical information, but no real direction for searching? Biography Buckets is for you. Biography Buckets takes biographical events or keywords associated with a person and uses them to build date-based searches…
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…
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…
Did you ever want to monitor a news topic for only a few days? That’s what JOOC Box is for. “JOOC” is Internet slang for “Just Out Of Curiosity”! Enter a query that you want to follow and how many days you want to follow it. JOOC Box will generate…
This tool takes a year and query you input and generates date-restricted searches for several news search engines, including Google News, Google Books (Books, Newspapers, and Magazines are searched separately), Newspapers.com, and Chronicling America. The URLs will appear underneath the “Click Here To Generate Search URLs” button after you click…