Tag: Google News

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Wikipedia Seismograph: Using Date-Based News Search to Avoid Puff Pieces

I’ve been following the Blake Lively / Justin Baldoni situation. Lately it’s strayed into PR / crisis management. One of the commentary channels I listen to mentioned today that celebrities might put out tons of stories and puff pieces to “push down” less-flattering results in Google searches. But that won’t work with Wikipedia Seismograph! WS […]

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Find Out What’s Moving and Shaking With Wikipedia Hot Topics

Wikipedia Hot Topics analyzes the top 1000 Wikipedia pages for a given date, finds the ones which had a significant view bump against a 7-day median (more than 100%), then divides them into categories (living humans, deceased humans, films, even categories like “rare diseases”. The category information is being taken from Wikidata’s P31 “instance of” value.) Each Wikipedia article on the list gets a detail section with more information about the article along with link to external tools and resources.

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See How Wikipedia Topics Are Shaking the News With a Wikipedia Seismograph

By visually displaying the deviations from a seven-day moving average in a chart (which looks to me like a seismograph output) you can easily see peaks in the public’s interest in a topic. Of course, that knowledge isn’t very interesting unless you can also discover why the interest has peaked, so the WPS also includes a feature to let you create date-bounded Google News searches using the chart output.

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SearchTweaks.com – 16 Tools to Make Your Google Search Better

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 . 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 […]

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