Tag: Search
In this post, I’ll share 15 actionable tips to help you master search operators for SEO
ᔥ Sharpening The Trailing Edge Technology of Google Custom Search Engine – CogDogBlog ()
in[TL;DR: Google has gotten bad; we all know it; ideas for a startup making a better Google.]
Introducing Boogle, a proxy for Google that’s just Better Google Search. It’s a query expander. We predict the correct operators for your query, proxy Google’s results, and serve. For example:
query("stripe.js example") -> query("stripe.js example (site:github.com OR site:gitlab.com OR site:..."))
query("is anker charger") -> query("is anker charger (inurl:forum OR site:reddit.com OR ...))"
Query topic modeling is a rich science with plenty of examples.
Most students think they know how to use the internet to search for information, and teachers agree. But this isn’t always the case.
A useful strategic trick to get to a deeper understanding of your research question is to write up a mini-essay that presents all of your information and frames what it is you’re trying to figure out. I’m 99% convinced that having to write something down (and have that writeup make sense) is a great method to making sure that all of your ducks are in a row. If you’re being honest with yourself, you’ll pick up all KINDS of mistakes in your reasoning and data.
📓 IndieWeb Itch – Better Search
Google has offered custom search engines for individual sites for a long time, so I threw together one that searches all of the sites in Indie Map, plus lots more that have joined the IndieWeb since then. It seems to work ok so far. Try it out and let me know what you think!
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A search engine for the whole IndieWeb has been a hot conversation topic, on and off, for many years now. Many of us offer search on our own individual sites, and more ambiti…
A Google search, however, cannot give us the two things we most need: time and other people. For our day-to-day problems, a sympathetic ear remains the most powerful device for providing relief, if not a cure. For the bigger puzzles of existence, there is no substitute for long reflection, with help from the great thinkers of history. Google can lead us directly to them, but only we can spend time in their company. Search results can help us only if they are the start, not the end, of our intellectual quest.