Remember the old days of link directories? When you did not have to plunge into the soup of Google or some other full-text search engine to get useful results? Me too, so I made the Wikipedia Official Link Property Explorer, or WOLPE for short. (I wanted to call it WikiHoo…
Do you like the USGS earthquake feed but find its information lacking without some context? Try Museek’s Quake Peek. Select an earthquake feed from USGS, and MQP will analyze the locations and find the nearest location delineated by a Wikipedia article (assuming there is one — often there is.) If…
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…
When you want the official Facebook account or the LinkedIn for a famous person, what do you do? A quick Web search? It’s either that, ask a friend, or try to guess. But there are other places that have that kind of information too, like Wikipedia. And if you’re looking…
Wiki-Guided Google Search Takes Your Wikipedia Topic Search And Builds A Set of Google queries around related topics. Say you want to learn more about Georgia O’Keeffe but you don’t know enough to make a detailed query for a search engine. But Wikipedia knows a LOT about Georgia O’Keeffe, so…