By ResearchBuzz
Happy holidays! I made you a present: a collection of sixteen tools to make your Google search better, presented in a new site called SearchTweaks.com . You don’t even have to unwrap it because it’s all ready to go.
As you might imagine, after over 25 years of writing about search engines I have plenty of thoughts and opinions about what’s missing in the search experience and what could be done better. Over the last 20 months or so as I’ve been learning JavaScript, I’ve started making what I want to see. And after I’ve gone to all that trouble to learn and program and troubleshoot, why not share?
SearchTweaks’ tools are divided up into four categories: Query Builders (using external resources like Wikipedia to build more detailed Google searches without personal expertise), News-Related Search Tools (Using the FCC and other information sources to build news searches with transparent sourcing), Time-Related Search Tools (making Google’s date-based searching easier to use), and Search Utilities (hacks and tricks for making the most of how Google’s search works.)
SearchTweaks is free and ad-free. The site is hand-coded HTML/CSS/JavaScript so it should work on your phone, but it was designed with desktop use in mind.
Here’s a brief description of each search tool. Enjoy!
Query Builders
Wiki-Guided Google Search — Searches Wikipedia for mentions of a Wikipedia article, filters the result pages by number of mentions, and generates a list of related topics and Google / Google News searches for each.
Clumpy Bounce Topic Search — “Clump” together popular Wikipedia pages in a category and “bounce” them into a Google search.
Smushy Search — Use the Datamuse API to create randomish topical searches on Google.
News-Related Search Tools
Non-Sketchy News Search — Use Wikipedia to find news sources and bundle them into Google Searches.
Marion’s Monocle TV Search — Use FCC licensing data to find TV stations by city/state, then search their Web spaces via Google.
School Scoop — Browse American schools by city/state and search for them on Google/Google News.
Street Scoop — Enter a US address. StreetScoop will find the nearest large city, query the FCC for the television stations in the area, and aggregate those domain names along with your street name into a Google search.
Time-Related Search Tools
Back That Ask Up — Easily removes recent results from Google News searches.
TimeCake — Specify a starting year (1999-), ending year, and interval of years and get a list of Google searches covering those time periods.
Obit Magnet — Find obituaries by creating very short date-bounded searches in Google and other resources.
Software VerSearch — Use lifespans of software versions to craft more useful Google searches.
Search Utilities
No Shop Sherlock — Eliminate different kinds of ecommerce and other content from your Google search results.
Shuffle Search — Shuffle a short Google query into all possible word orders.
Sinker Search — Fill up your Google query’s 32-word limit by repeating its most important term as a “sinker” to weight the search.
Carl’s Name Net — Search a name in a variety of combinations across several resources.
Anti-Bullseye Name Search — Searches for uncommon variants of a name while specifically excluding popular variants.
December 18, 2023 at 09:26PM
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