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Weird Rabbit Hole: Spam on Medium
I don’t read Medium posts as much as I used to since the paywall was put in place. But I still keep an eye on it; there are plenty of good writers on there and I’ve found some great content. One thing...
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IFTTT / Reddit Alerts Filling Up With Porn Spam? Here’s What To Do
A little over five years ago I wrote an article called Keeping Up With Reddit: Use IFTTT, Not Google Alerts. While I don’t use Reddit as a social network, it has been invaluable for keeping me...
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Paywalls Everywhere You Go? Get to the Goodies With These Two Paywall Ladder...
On the one hand, I hate paywalls. I spend much of my day reading the news and paywalls are the bane of my existence. I want the news, not a login page. On the other hand, I love paywalls. Why? Because...
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Reconsidering Web Search With Contextual Boundaries, Authority, Interest, and...
I have been asked to speak to the folks of Apra Wisconsin at a virtual event sometime in the near future about Web search. I’ll be talking about people search because the audience is prospect...
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Chronos Crossfinder: Janis Joplin was “the Judy Garland of Rock”?
Contemporary search is underrated! By contemporary search, I mean search that only spans the life of a person/place/thing. I don’t think I have yet managed to fully appreciate the way media and...
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Using Persistent Metadata Can Focus Your Search Results Without Keywords:...
One of the problems with making Google search better is that much of its indexed content is unstructured data. It’s easy to do deep search when all your data is nicely labeled. What happens when it’s...
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Two New Gizmos to Explore Mastodon: Hashtag Search and Trending Content
If you use Twitter, you probably know about its recent decision to limit content visibility to registered users only. Add in today’s adventures in rate-limiting and Twitter is a plain mess. I’ve been...
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Mastodon’s Search Limitations Are Good and Can Be Used For Good
I don’t know if it’s because it’s Monday or because it’s way too humid to exercise outside and I just exercised outside anyway, but I find myself especially irritated at all the complaining about...
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Introducing the Big Mastodon Hashtag Search
Last week while writing about recent doodads I’ve made for Mastodon, I complained that I found the Google experience rather flat relative to the amount of understanding we as online searchers have...
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Working On Mastodon Content Curation Tools as Twitter Continues to Decline
It’s funny how things change. Once I relied heavily on Twitter for current news and links via tools like Listimonkey and Nuzzel. Now both Listimonkey and Nuzzel are long dead and Twitter’s...
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Four Strategies to Avoid Disinformation In Your Search Results
Yesterday the New York Times published an article called Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S. (that link goes to a gift article.) It’s about how Russia is planting disinformation...
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