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…
Blog Shovel uses URL patterns to help you dig deep into the Web’s blog and news space and surface old results. Specify a query, the year you want your search to start and finish, how you want to restrict the content of your results (if at all), and how you…
Enter a Google News query and the number of days/months/years’ worth of the most recent news items you want to eliminate. This tool will construct a date-restricted search query in Google News and open it in a new window. New political shenanigans disrupting your search? Back that ask up! A…