Do you want local news? I mean LOCAL news? Enter a US address. StreetScoop will find the nearest large city, query the FCC for the television stations in the area, and aggregate those domain names along with your street name into a Google search, which then opens in a…
NewsDrizzle shows you word clouds based on recent headlines and lets you randomly browse the news. Choose a topic from the drop down menu and click the “Generate Word Cloud” button. You’ll get a word cloud of the most common non-stopwords based on the headlines of RSS feeds devoted to…
Non-Sketchy News Search (NSNS) v2 The first version of Non-Sketchy News Search uses API calls to find media on Wikipedia by category and bundle selected outlets into a Google search. Finding media sources that way is kludgy, though it can get you lots of different results. This version of NSNS…
Curious about the backstory and context of Wikipedia articles? Meet Wiki Page Backstory, a handy tool designed to help you delve into how Wikipedia pages end up in categories. Wiki Page Backstory works by analyzing pages newly-added to a category and setting up time-bounded searches across Google Web, Google News,…
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…