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Category Archives: Search Engines

BookFinder.com

“BookFinder.com is a one-stop ecommerce search engine that searches over 150 million books for sale—new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks. We save you time and money by searching every major catalog online, and letting you know which booksellers are offering the best prices and selection. When you find a book you like, you can buy… Continue Reading

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 11, 2023

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 11, 2023: Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading

ChatGPT for Data Science Cheat Sheet

KD Nuggets: “…The problem that we are currently grappling with is one of expectations: some expect that ChatGPT is nothing more than a stochastic parrot that produces rubbish and is completely useless, while others seem to think (either pessimistically or optimistically, depending on who you ask) that ChatGPT will be taking over the world, while… Continue Reading

How you could build a search that the fediverse would welcome

Anil Dash: “Mastodon and the fediverse are clearly taking off, bringing in millions of new users, and also organically inspiring a wave of technical innovation that dwarfs all of the efforts that the bribes and empty promises of the Web3 crypto bubble couldn’t touch. I’m even enjoying having settled into a relatively permanent new fediverse… Continue Reading

Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new answerbot

Ars Technica: “Not to be left out of the rush to integrate generative AI into search, on Wednesday DuckDuckGo announced DuckAssist, an AI-powered factual summary service powered by technology from Anthropic and OpenAI. It is available for free today as a wide beta test for users of DuckDuckGo’s browser extensions and browsing apps. Being powered… Continue Reading

Explore the world’s searches with the new Google Trends

Google Blog: “With spring cleaning trends on our minds, we’ve refreshed the Search Trends site, making it easier to explore what’s trending around you and across the world.. You can now explore real-time trends right on the home page. These are updated every hour and are accompanied by links to relevant news articles, so you… Continue Reading

DuckDuckGo Releases Its Own ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine, DuckAssist

Gizmodo: “DuckDuckGo launched a beta version of an AI search tool powered by ChatGPT Wednesday called DuckAssist. The addition to the company’s privacy-focused search engine uses ChatGPT’s language parsing capability to generate answers scraped from Wikipedia and related sources like the Encyclopedia Britannica. The tool is free and available on the DuckDuckGo web browsing apps… Continue Reading

Talk to Wikipedia using chatGPT

“wikipediaGPT allows you to talk to version of chatGPT that has access all of Wikipedia! It’s actually based on “Simple English Wikipedia” with some limitations due to financial constraits. If you’d like to help extend this to ALL of Wikipedia get in touch! Unline chatGPT this website can’t make stuff up and will only answer… Continue Reading

The CEPS EurLex dataset

The CEPS EurLex dataset: “142.036 EU laws from 1952-2019 with full text and 22 variables: The dataset contains 142.036 EU laws – almost the entire corpus of the EU’s digitally available legal acts passed between 1952 – 2019. It encompasses the three types of legally binding acts passed by the EU institutions: 102.304 regulations, 4.070… Continue Reading

The Open Contracting Data Standard

“The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS), is a free, non-proprietary open data standard for public contracting, implemented by over 30 governments around the world. It is the only international open standard for the publication of information related to the planning, procurement, and implementation of public contracts and has been endorsed by the G20, the G7… Continue Reading

Google’s Plan to Catch ChatGPT Is to Stuff AI Into Everything

Bloomberg: “A new internal directive requires “generative artificial intelligence” to be incorporated into all of its biggest products within months. Artificial intelligence was supposed to be Google’s thing. The company has cultivated a reputation for making long-term bets on all kinds of far-off technologies, and much of the research underpinning the current wave of AI-powered… Continue Reading

How to Take Back Control of What You Read on the Internet

The Atlantic – “How to Take Back Control of What You Read on the Internet Social-media algorithms show us what they want us to see, not what we want to see. But there is an alternative. By Yair Rosenberg. “The social-media web is built on a lie. Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter enticed… Continue Reading