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Searching playground
I thought this topic followed yesterday’s post nicely. And, it’s all Google. It’s a chance to see what you know about the world, or more accurately, what the world is searching for on Google. From the left side of the screen, choose a category and then a topic. Then, head to the big image to… Continue reading
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In search of …
CityNews had this article on my newsfeed this morning. What did Canadians Google the most in 2023? Of course I fell for the click bait. It’s not that I’m terribly concerned with what others were searching for, I was curious if my searches would have fallen into the list. I suspect that most people use… Continue reading
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Image searching
I was lead to this from Doug Belshaw’s newsletter. The site is called Same Energy. It’s a website devoted to finding images for you. So, what makes this stand out in an environment full of search engine? For the most part, search engines accept the descriptors that you send them and does its best to… Continue reading
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Fixes
I didn’t know that anything was broken until I was getting ready for “This Week in Ontario Edublogs” and had logged into Zencastr. Out of the blue, it reported that there was a problem with the sampling rate of my microphone. Now, you have to realize that I have two monitors, five blog posts in… Continue reading
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Search them all
A long time ago, I had written a script that kind of did was Soovle does. It’s just that Soovle does it so much better. It was based on the premise that if searching on one search engine was good then searching on more than one can be better. So, let’s say you’re interested in… Continue reading
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