I really like the search suggestions. Personally, I use Granary to follow, but really like customising the feed by kind as well as people.
Tag: Search
In this post, I’ll share 15 actionable tips to help you master search operators for SEO
Joshua Hardwick provides a long list of the operators associated with search queries.
ᔥ in Sharpening The Trailing Edge Technology of Google Custom Search Engine – CogDogBlog ()
[TL;DR: Google has gotten bad; we all know it; ideas for a startup making a better Google.]
Daniel Gross talks about using query to improve searches within Google Search:
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.
Renee Morrison reflects on six years of research into the way students use search engines. She shares three things young people should keep in mind to get the full benefits of searching online: search for more than isolated facts, slow down when looking things up online, and take control of the process rather than relying on Google. Along with Dan Russell’s better web search techniques and Ryan Holiday’s advice for research, Morrison’s suggestions provide a useful point of reflection.
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.
Dan Russell shares some strategies to support the searching for information. The most interesting one was the idea of collating the ideas and information in the form of an essay. I guess blogging fits this mould.
📓 IndieWeb Itch – Better Search
I have a new #IndieWeb itch, that is extend the search capabilities for my Commonplace Book. I have a practice of saving pertinent quotes within the response properties. However, on research, I have found that the standard WordPress site search only looks at the title and body. Although there seems to be various options to extend this, I am not sure if these will support searching within the Post Kinds fields. One option would be to include the quotes within the body of the post, like Glen Cochrane does. However, I would prefer to extend the functionality of my site.
David Shanske (david.shanske.com)In the latest episode of An Indieweb Podcast, Chris Aldrich joined me for a late night(for me at least) discussion of Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor, and the usual project talk. I felt I was a bit off due the lateness of the hour, but I still enjoyed the conversation.
Another great podcast with yourself and Chris. I am slowly understanding post kinds and how the plugin works. Is the recording of the data outside of the post the reason that the information does not show up within the site search? I have a tendency to include quotes in the quote/summary box, but have trouble surfacing these after the fact. My habit with Diigo was to search quotes and posts. I am guessing the answer might be to include these quotes within the body of the text?
Ryan Barrett (snarfed.org)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.
via Doug Belshaw
This search engine is another one to add to research and connecting beyond the classroom with Google.