ResearchBuzz
Writing about search engines and online information collections since 1996. Trying to add data to inform and direct searches without taking them over.
ResearchBuzz
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Carls-Name-Net
A tool for generating name variants and searching for them on Google, Google Books, Google Scholar, and Internet Archive
edu-rss-feeds
Over 900 higher education-related RSS feeds
Kebberfegg
A simple tool for making a dozen different keyword-based RSS feeds
Mastodon-Follow-Bookmarklet
A bookmarklet that makes it easy to follow Mastodon users on different instances.
mastodon-link-ripper
Rips links from Mastodon instance timelines and shows them to you in aggregate. Includes simple keyword and time filters.
Mastodon-Stadium-Seats
Enter a list of hashtags to monitor and Mastodon instances, and MSS makes a plain, full-screen display that updates every 90 seconds.
No-Shop-Sherlock
A simple Google filter for removing as much ecommerce content as possible.
Time-Sliced-News-Search
A search filter for building date-based searches on a variety of news search resources, including Google News, Google Books, and Newspapers.com
Twitter-Receipts
Quick tool for getting old Twitter snapshots from the Wayback Machine
VibesMasto-News-Monitor
A full-page news monitor with different sections for an RSS feed, trending Mastodon links and hashtags, and posts from any Mastodon hashtags you want to monitor. Meant to cast to / display on a second screen.
ResearchBuzz's Repositories
ResearchBuzz/VibesMasto-News-Monitor
A full-page news monitor with different sections for an RSS feed, trending Mastodon links and hashtags, and posts from any Mastodon hashtags you want to monitor. Meant to cast to / display on a second screen.
ResearchBuzz/Mastodon-Follow-Bookmarklet
A bookmarklet that makes it easy to follow Mastodon users on different instances.
ResearchBuzz/mastodon-link-ripper
Rips links from Mastodon instance timelines and shows them to you in aggregate. Includes simple keyword and time filters.
ResearchBuzz/Mastodon-Stadium-Seats
Enter a list of hashtags to monitor and Mastodon instances, and MSS makes a plain, full-screen display that updates every 90 seconds.
ResearchBuzz/edu-rss-feeds
Over 900 higher education-related RSS feeds
ResearchBuzz/Twitter-Receipts
Quick tool for getting old Twitter snapshots from the Wayback Machine
ResearchBuzz/No-Shop-Sherlock
A simple Google filter for removing as much ecommerce content as possible.
ResearchBuzz/Time-Sliced-News-Search
A search filter for building date-based searches on a variety of news search resources, including Google News, Google Books, and Newspapers.com
ResearchBuzz/Carls-Name-Net
A tool for generating name variants and searching for them on Google, Google Books, Google Scholar, and Internet Archive
ResearchBuzz/Kebberfegg
A simple tool for making a dozen different keyword-based RSS feeds
ResearchBuzz/Super-Edu-Search
Get past site:edu with Department of Education college information that allows you to narrowly target university Web space.
ResearchBuzz/The-Anti-Bullseye-Name-Search
A Google search filter that excludes the common name formatting of "Firstname Lastname" in search results, instead flipping the name search.
ResearchBuzz/Back-That-Ask-Up-
A Google Search interface to quickly eliminate recent news from a Google News search.
ResearchBuzz/Blog-Shovel
A Google search filter for digging deep into old blogging results.
ResearchBuzz/blogspace-time-machine
A Google filter for searching recently created blog content, with an option to review the same search for content from 1, 3, 5, 10, and 15 years ago.
ResearchBuzz/Congressional-Social-Media-Explorer
A platform using the ProPublica Congress API to build Google queries for congressional Twitter space. Covers congresses 112-117.
ResearchBuzz/Contemporary-Biography-Builder
Pulls birth/death dates from Wikipedia and generates lifepan-limited searches for several media search engines.
ResearchBuzz/Gossip-Machine
A tool that uses Wikipedia page view counts to find potentially-newsworthy dates for Wikipedia article subjects
ResearchBuzz/JOOC-Box
Create RSS feeds with expiration dates in the title
ResearchBuzz/Local-Community-Finder
A targeted search filter to find like-minded people and pages via Google and Twitter.
ResearchBuzz/mastodon-instance-keyword-search
Quick n' dirty search of the Instance.Social API by keyword of both name and description. You'll need a key.
ResearchBuzz/Pam-s-University-Pin
Search for higher education institutions by zip code radius and then explore their TwitterSpace.
ResearchBuzz/Pams-Pin
A search interface that uses the Geocodify API to make location-based Twitter search easy.
ResearchBuzz/politician-parade
Add sitting congresspeople to your Google News search
ResearchBuzz/politician-parade-Twitter
Search the Twitter space of a state's congressional representatives.
ResearchBuzz/Remove-AI-Summaries-Bookmarklet
A bookmarklet that uses a simple query suffix to remove AI summaries from Google search results.
ResearchBuzz/search-spam-skimmer
Bookmarklet which forces Google to do its search date-limited to two-days before today.
ResearchBuzz/Senator-Social-Slices-Twitter
A filter to search the Twitterspace of current members of the US Senate. You can filter by generation, gender, party, Zodiac sign, number of votes missed, etc.
ResearchBuzz/sinker-search
A Google search filter that adds a "sinker" to a standard query - a search term that's used until Google's search query limit of 32 is reached.
ResearchBuzz/SmushySearch
A topical search tool for Google