I don’t know about y’all but I am having my usual wild Friday night working on my search tools. I’ve just added two new tools to SearchTweaks.com; if you do any local news searching I think you’ll really like at least one of them. Like all of the site they are free to use and free of ads. If you’d like more information about SearchTweaks check out this article.
SearchTweaks is a collection of 19 tools for better search, divided into four categories: Query Builders (100% AI-free!), News-Related Search, Time-Related Search, and Search Utilities.** Peabody Search **is a new entrant in the News-Related Search category. Use Peabody Search to build site-restricted Google searches for a single US state’s newspapers, public radio, and TV stations, sliced across whatever years you pick.
Super Edu Search is an existing tool that uses a Department of Education dataset to do extremely focused searching in the .edu web space.
is a new version that doesn’t use Google, instead getting results from the Diffbot API. Super Edu Search Powered by Diffbot I think up next I’ve got some cleanup to do on WikiTwister…