I read a blog post titled Personal Search Engines with interest (HT Steve Makofsky). The author, Jason J. Gullickson, describes building a prototype federated personal search engine seeded with domains from his RSS feed collection. I like the idea of a personal search engine and have had trying YaCy to that effect on my personal "to-do" list for some time. This very interesting post (and perhaps…
I missed two days of Pook-Emu Bee links. But it is not all bad: Now we have even more links from around the web to choose from.
I've been an RSS obsessive for years. Hundreds of feeds, hand-picked one by one. But RSS only shows you sources you already know. New voices don't find you there.
I added Bubbles' Daily Briefing to my feed…
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…
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 …
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;…