Yesterday I wrote about making search spaces and got accused of making echo chambers. So today I’ll show you how to get into the EVERYTHING CHAMBER with 3 tools for randomish and nook-and-cranny searching.
Blaugust: What Am I Supposed To Talk About?
I have several posts in draft but they’ve stayed in draft because I can’t convince myself you give half a crap. I don’t expect or require you to, of course: you owe me nothing. At the same time I’d like to entertain or teach you rather than irritate you, so shouldn’t I consider you, my […]
Building Spaces for Local Search Using DMA
As Google’s web search continues to be boring and filled with AI weirdness (I would have no problem if it were boring *and worked*), I continue on my mission to demonstrate that there are a lot more ways we could be building search spaces. I spent the last few days building datasets for it, then […]
US Local News Search Gets State Newspapers
I’ve been continuing work on my US Local News search because I’m sick of trying to find news online and getting whatever slop someone managed to slip into a search engine’s index. When I want local news I want LOCAL NEWS, not junk! I’ve just finished a new version and I’m pleased to share it […]
Mixing Mojeek and Wikipedia
I really am trying to not get distracted by the Mojeek API, but people keep saying how bad Web search is right now, and the more they say that the more I think of other options. I very much like the way Mojeek offers the ability to “focus” your search by limiting it to a […]