I have a busy day ahead of me, but not too busy for Pook-Emu Bee links. Before getting to links from around the web, I note that I just published the sixth and final part of my New Leaf Journal sixth birthday project, Be the Blogger You Want to Be (Or Read). Now watch me follow my own advice.
I was too busy yesterday to put together my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. I am busy today as well, but not too busy to take a link break.
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This is a fair list but the article misses some nuance about the sources used by Startpage and Ecosia. I would add Mojeek…
We are having a second consecutive 90+ degree day here in Brooklyn today's Pook-Emu Bee links are warmer than the outside temperatures.
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The AIfication of Google Search is concerning but NLJ has been hitting new highs in Google Search despite my disfavoring AI cawlers via .htaccess and robots, so we'll see…
Ars Technica published an article by Ryan Whitwam titled Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour. The article itself is about a New York Times investigation into the accuracy of Google's AI overviews. The framing in the headline matches the first paragraph: "...1 in 10 AI answers is wrong, and for Google, that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every…
I read read a good article by Hana Lee Goldin at Card Catalog titled Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. In the post, she ran through several tips for using Google Search effectively. I very seldom use Google Search proper, usually opting for alternatives. But I studied her post for ideas I can use in my research (Google does stand apart from most of the "alternatives" in …
I came across a 2021 blog post by Maddy Miller on dropping Accelerated Mobile Pages ("AMP") support on her blog. Back when I started running The New Leaf Journal, I had little idea what I was doing and only vaguely knew what AMP was (note that my phone at that time was a BlackBerry Classic). The WordPress theme I implemented in June 2020 (and still use today) has built-in AMP support. I vaguely…
James at James' Coffee Blog published a good post in 2024 titled Search engine shortcuts in Firefox, which regular New Leaf Journal readers will know is a topic near and dear to my heart. James demonstrated how to add search engine shortcuts to Firefox using the search box (which, readers should note, is distinct from running searches in the omnibar address bar (HT to yoasif for the correction;…