Friday, September 25, 2009
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Google Search hack....Recently indexed content
The Return of the URL Hack: Finding Google’s REALLY Recently-Indexed Content
Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:34 AM PDT
A big thanks to Ran at Omgili.com for his recent blog post about turning Google into a near real-time search engine. You can do it too! Here’s how it works.
If you’ve been reading ResearchBuzz for a while you know about hacking URLs — changing parameters so that the pages display different kinds of results. Ran hacked a Google search result URL and changed the search results so that they were being returned only for items that had been indexed in a very small period of time — like a few seconds!
Here is a basic Google search for the word fred.
http://www.google.com/search?q=fred
Ran hacked the tbs parameter, which possibly stands for Time Being Searched? The tbs parameter, added on to the end of a query, can look like this:
&tbs=qdr:d (searches a day’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:h (searches an hour’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:n (searches a minute’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:s (searches a second’s worth of indexed content)
You just add the parameter to the end of your query. So if you were searching for content containing the word fred that was indexed in the last minute, the query would look like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=fred&tbs=qdr:n
You can add a number to the end of the parameter to indicate a span. For example, &tbs=qdr:h3 at the end of a Google query will find content indexed within the last three hours.
Note that this parameter seems to work only in Web search — I didn’t get any results when I tried to use it in news, images, etc.
So what do you DO with this? You can find content that Google has indexed really really really recently. :-> You can also use these switches to dig around in Twitter. For example, say I want to search Twitter for Tweet accounts that describe themselves as the “official” blah-de-blah. I can’t do that with Twitter’s search page because I can’t search in just the biography text. But you can with Google using the following query:
site:twitter.com “Bio * official”
By adding &tbs=qdr:h3 to the end of a search URL for the above query, I could search Google for recently-indexed Twitter accounts/updates in a way that Twitter’s search page doesn’t allow me to. Now, will this get you everything? My assumption is no; I go by the rule of thumb that an external search engine applied to a source will never get everything that that source’s internal search engine will. But I got enough that I wanted to look around some more.
Or you can use Twitter as a Deliciousesque search using Google! The following search will look just in Twitter users’ favorited lists for the word “tool”:
site:twitter.com inurl:favorites tool
Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:34 AM PDT
A big thanks to Ran at Omgili.com for his recent blog post about turning Google into a near real-time search engine. You can do it too! Here’s how it works.
If you’ve been reading ResearchBuzz for a while you know about hacking URLs — changing parameters so that the pages display different kinds of results. Ran hacked a Google search result URL and changed the search results so that they were being returned only for items that had been indexed in a very small period of time — like a few seconds!
Here is a basic Google search for the word fred.
http://www.google.com/search?q=fred
Ran hacked the tbs parameter, which possibly stands for Time Being Searched? The tbs parameter, added on to the end of a query, can look like this:
&tbs=qdr:d (searches a day’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:h (searches an hour’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:n (searches a minute’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:s (searches a second’s worth of indexed content)
You just add the parameter to the end of your query. So if you were searching for content containing the word fred that was indexed in the last minute, the query would look like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=fred&tbs=qdr:n
You can add a number to the end of the parameter to indicate a span. For example, &tbs=qdr:h3 at the end of a Google query will find content indexed within the last three hours.
Note that this parameter seems to work only in Web search — I didn’t get any results when I tried to use it in news, images, etc.
So what do you DO with this? You can find content that Google has indexed really really really recently. :-> You can also use these switches to dig around in Twitter. For example, say I want to search Twitter for Tweet accounts that describe themselves as the “official” blah-de-blah. I can’t do that with Twitter’s search page because I can’t search in just the biography text. But you can with Google using the following query:
site:twitter.com “Bio * official”
By adding &tbs=qdr:h3 to the end of a search URL for the above query, I could search Google for recently-indexed Twitter accounts/updates in a way that Twitter’s search page doesn’t allow me to. Now, will this get you everything? My assumption is no; I go by the rule of thumb that an external search engine applied to a source will never get everything that that source’s internal search engine will. But I got enough that I wanted to look around some more.
Or you can use Twitter as a Deliciousesque search using Google! The following search will look just in Twitter users’ favorited lists for the word “tool”:
site:twitter.com inurl:favorites tool
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Docu-View: Free Online Documentaries
Docu-View: Free Online Documentaries: "Listing all documentaries in 'Environment'"
Monday, September 14, 2009
Panasonic: New LED bulbs shine for 19 years | Crave - CNET
Panasonic: New LED bulbs shine for 19 years | Crave - CNET: "Panasonic: New LED bulbs shine for 19 years"
Friday, September 11, 2009
Starving in silence - The Globe and Mail
Starving in silence - The Globe and Mail: "Starving in silence
With no machines and all the livestock eaten, quiet lingers in rural areas of nation where 8.7 million face hunger"
With no machines and all the livestock eaten, quiet lingers in rural areas of nation where 8.7 million face hunger"
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Gleaning - Gleaners
Gleaning: One Way to Help the Community - Cali Keck, OlyCAP’s Americorps Volunteer focusing on community gardens asked me to let everyone know that we are fortunate in East Jefferson and Clallam counties to have community organizations helping gather food that would otherwise go to waste and distributing it to neighbors in need. The group in Port Townsend is Quimper Community Harvest, and they can be contacted at 379-0414, or sethrolland@gmail.com. Olympic Gleaners covers Port Angeles/Sequim and they can be reached at 360-452-4726 ext. 6282, olympicgleaners@gmail.com, or on their website http://www.olympicgleaners.org/.
They are looking for volunteers, trees and farms to glean, and recipients for the gleaned food.
They are looking for volunteers, trees and farms to glean, and recipients for the gleaned food.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber
Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber: "Of course, it’s not that simple; but if you believe Dr Tracy Alloway from the University of Stirling in Scotland, Twitter and Facebook are very different beasts when it comes to improve your “working memory“, which relates to “the structures and processes used for temporarily storing and manipulating information in short-term memory.”
Dr. Alloway has developed a working memory training programme for slow-learning children aged 11 to 14 at a school in Durham, and she found out that Facebook (Facebook) did wonders for working memory, improving the kids’ IQ scores, while YouTube (YouTube) and Twitter’s (Twitter) steady stream of information was not healthy for working memory. Also, playing video games, especially those that involve planning and strategy, can also be beneficial.
As with any such study, one needs to take the results with a grain of salt. Without going into the benefits of training working memory for improving your IQ results, it’s obvious that Facebook and Twitter are hard to compare. Facebook is extremely versatile: you can play games there, chat with your friends, view photos and videos; you can even take IQ tests.
Twitter is a much simpler, more streamlined service. Does that fact alone makes it detrimental to your working memory? Dr. Allowa"
Dr. Alloway has developed a working memory training programme for slow-learning children aged 11 to 14 at a school in Durham, and she found out that Facebook (Facebook) did wonders for working memory, improving the kids’ IQ scores, while YouTube (YouTube) and Twitter’s (Twitter) steady stream of information was not healthy for working memory. Also, playing video games, especially those that involve planning and strategy, can also be beneficial.
As with any such study, one needs to take the results with a grain of salt. Without going into the benefits of training working memory for improving your IQ results, it’s obvious that Facebook and Twitter are hard to compare. Facebook is extremely versatile: you can play games there, chat with your friends, view photos and videos; you can even take IQ tests.
Twitter is a much simpler, more streamlined service. Does that fact alone makes it detrimental to your working memory? Dr. Allowa"
Friday, September 4, 2009
Tell Obama's Antitrust Czar: Investigate Monsanto
Tell Obama's Antitrust Czar: Investigate Monsanto: "Massive seed corporation Monsanto -- through acquisitions and cut-throat business practices -- has cornered 90% of the soy, 65% of the corn, and 70% of the cotton market, and has a rapidly growing presence in the fruit and vegetable market, all without government anti-trust officials raising an eyebrow."
Shampoo pooh-pooh - 02 September 2009 - New Scientist
Shampoo pooh-pooh - 02 September 2009 - New Scientist: "have just read the label on my shampoo bottle. The list of ingredients is mind-boggling. How on earth did anyone come up with such a complex concoction and what exactly are chemicals such as sodium diethylene-triamine pentamethylene phosphonate and hydroxyisohexyl 3-cyclohexene carboxaldehyde doing to my hair?"
Diesel Exhaust Is Linked To Cancer Development Via New Blood Vessel Growth
Diesel Exhaust Is Linked To Cancer Development Via New Blood Vessel Growth: "Diesel Exhaust Is Linked To Cancer Development Via New Blood Vessel Growth"
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