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Yesterday I finished the housework, got ResearchBuzz squared away, and sat down at the computer about 2pm with the intention of doing some troubleshooting of Local Search America's news aggregator, Local News America. SEVEN AND A HALF HOURS LATER I creaki

I don't know about y'all but I am having my usual wild Friday night working on my search tools. I've just added two new tools to SearchTweaks.com; if you do any local news searching I think you'll really like at least one of them. Like all of the site the

It seems like every day you read about some new fake web site or site network spewing disinformation or AI slop into Google results. One of my strategies for getting around this search crud is restricting my search to authoritative sources, like FCC-licen

Let me tell you about a search tool of mine I just upgraded using Diffbot's new Web API. It's an upgraded version of Super Edu Search that I'm calling Super Edu Search Powered by Diffbot. I bet you have added site:edu to a Google search at some point. It'

RSS feeds aren't dead! And to prove it I've started working on a new dataset of GLAM (Galleries / Libraries / Archives / Museums)-related RSS feeds. I've uploaded the initial version - 399 GLAM-related feeds, all human-verified, most updated this year (a

I'm doing some more site housekeeping! If you're into RSS, especially creating keyword- or location-based feeds, check out my site RSS Gizmos. I fixed some problems with my URL fetches and now the site is going great. RSS Gizmos is a collection of ten too

I spent some time over the weekend working on my blog search tool Blog Hiking. I'm happy to report it's more powerful than before and has a couple of new features. Blog Hiking launched last November. (More details here.) I wanted a different way to explor

As you might imagine I'm not thrilled with Google's decision to go full-in on AI. Even if Google's AI consistently worked well enough to ensure minimal misinformation exposure and maxmium public safety (I do not believe it does), I would have concerns abo

For the last few months assembling ResearchBuzz has been increasingly frustrating. AI news was crowding out most of the other categories and I felt like the newsletter itself was getting much too AI-heavy. Things finally came to a head when I found myself

I love my local news RSS feeds and you'll have to pry them from my cold dead feed reader, but they are absolutely flooding me with feed items. I've been spending the last week or so trying to build a filtering system that would make the information flow a