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
Pinned Repositories
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/ResearchBuzz
Config files for my GitHub profile.
ResearchBuzz/shuffle-search
Google's search results are different depending on the order of the query words. Search shuffle takes a query of up to 4 words and creates Google search URLs for all possible query combinations.
ResearchBuzz/Wikipedia-Gender-Scanner
Scans Wikipedia categories and generates a list and pie chart of the gender breakdown.