Gossip Machine is Fun, but Double Stuff Gossip Machine is Even More Fun. The first version of Gossip Machine let you analyze Wikipedia article page views to find dates with unusually high traffic and turn those dates into Google News searches. Double-Stuff Gossip Machine lets you analyze TWO pages, find…
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…
Discover the untold stories of people, places, and things with Gossip Machine, a powerful tool that uses Wikipedia page views to surface potential “news days” in a given year for any topic with a Wikipedia page. By analyzing daily page views and flagging dates with significantly higher-than-average views, Gossip Machine…
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…
Welcome to the Blogspace Time Machine. Yes, the Internet is all about that social media, but people never stopped blogging. Unfortunately search engines don’t do a lot of blog-specific search anymore. It’s still a space worth exploring, though. The Blogspace Time Machine does a search for the query of your…