The ProPublica Congress API includes information about the social media of Congress members. This tool takes advantage of that to generate focused Google queries for a members’ social media space. Specifically it will generate Google queries that will search across: – The member’s Facebook posts – The member’s Facebook photos…
General topic searching on Google is a pain, especially if you don’t know much about the topic you’re trying to explore. When your knowledge is minimal it’s hard to refine your query to get past the very general “front door” results that Google tends to provide for a topic search.…
site:edu is great. But what if you could get even more specific? Super Edu Search takes higher education institution information from the Department of Education and applies it to a Google search. Did you ever want to search the Web space of all the public universities in Indiana? Or all…
Did you ever want to explore the Twitter space of colleges and universities? Pam’s University Pin makes it easy. Enter a zip code and a search radius of up to 100 miles, and choose whether you want to limit your results by ownership type, minority/gender emphasis, and/or religious affiliation. Pam’s…
Carl is a longtime Patreon, and I really appreciate him! Recently we’ve been trading emails about doing name-based searches. I was thinking about how he could get some name variation searching done when I wondered if this was a job for JavaScript. And it apparently is! Carl’s Name Net takes…