Ever want to visually explore a Wikipedia page’s popularity? The Wikipedia Page Count Checker checks page counts over the span you specify and makes a quick chart. Just enter the name of the article you want to check, the date you want to start, and the number of days you…
As the volume of scholarship posted on the Internet increases by the day, it gets more difficult to find information about a subject that’s contemporary to them. Yes, research on Louisa May Alcott is extensive and important. But what were newspapers saying about her in 1854? The Contemporary Biography Builder…
Want to find local people and local events? Try the Local Community Finder. The LCF uses location and date information to build a Google query for events and news in your area. In addition, it creates a Twitter radius search of your zip code so you see what people in…
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…
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…