Wondering what the wildfire smoke situation is like around the United States? Enter a city and state (state should be a two-letter postal code — NC, VA, GA, etc) and AQTweet Tracker will translate them to lat/long and open a Twitter search of that area with air-quality related query words.…
Get the 100 most popular Wikipedia pages for a given date and sort them by type (human, film, video game, etc.) Searches must be 2016 or later. Listings will look like this: (6) Michelle_Yeoh. The number shows the article’s position on the top 100 list. Some types of listings (like…
Do you ever find yourself doing research on a person where you have a name and a lot of biographical information, but no real direction for searching? Biography Buckets is for you. Biography Buckets takes biographical events or keywords associated with a person and uses them to build date-based searches…
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,…
PLEASE NOTE: Due to Twitter changes, this Gizmo WILL NOT WORK unless you’re logged in to Twitter. Pam’s Pin takes the address you specify and translates it into a location-based Twitter search URL which opens in a new tab. You can search for tweets in a radius of up to…