MakeUseOf: “It can be tricky to find a website or tool to run a reverse image search from your browser. So, here are nine of the best Firefox add-ons to do so. But without an add-on, you can’t search by image on Firefox. Therefore, here we’ll take a look at nine of the best Firefox… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Search Engines
Book bans: How Amazon, Google, and Apple can fight back with a Freedom Archive
ZDNet: “Hardly a day goes by when we don’t hear from a school or library somewhere in the United States that they’ve removed a book from circulation following complaints from parents or constituents. Last week, in a school district in Tennessee, it was the removal of MAUS, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, that… Continue Reading
Announcing the Launch of the New DHS.gov
DHS Blog: “DHS is proud to announce the launch of our brand new DHS.gov. After months in the works, I’m happy to share that the Department’s flagship website has been significantly modernized and improved to provide the public and our workforce with a more intuitive, secure, and user-friendly experience. Excellence in user experience – and… Continue Reading
USPTO launches new Patent Public Search tool and webpage
“The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced a new Patent Public Search tool that provides more convenient, remote, and robust full-text searching of all U.S. patents and published patent applications. Based on the advanced Patents End-to-End (PE2E) search tool USPTO examiners use to identify prior art, this free, cloud-based platform combines the capabilities of… Continue Reading
Stop trying to work in multiple browser tabs. It’s terrible for your focus.
Mashable: “If you’re reading this story in a single browser tab, because you only focus on one task at a time, congratulations, you can stop reading now. You likely know everything I’m about to say. This piece is for the rest of us, those who invariably juggle multiple tabs at once, convinced that we can… Continue Reading
Weird Old Book Finder
“A Search Engine That Finds You Weird Old Books | by Clive Thompson – A Search Engine That Finds You Weird Old Books – To help ‘rewild your attention’ I built a book-finding app [Medium / paywall] CBC Radio interview with this site’s creator. The interview is here (starts at 47:00) [h/t r/history] Link to… Continue Reading
What is RSS and How to Use it Effectively
A reminder to continue to reference this article by Pete Weiss, What is RSS and How to Use it Effectively. RSS has changed over the years, but remains a significant application for researchers. Per recent postings on the subject here on beSpacific: Bookfeed.io – An RSS feed listing all newly released books from your favorite… Continue Reading
A bit about PURLs
New via LLRX – A bit about PURLs – Ed Summers, librarian, metadata expert, teacher, and computational expert, delivers an insighful lesson on the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. PURLs were developed to make URLs more resilient and persistent over time. You could put a PURL into a catalog record and if the URL it pointed… Continue Reading
Google Your Body: Body Browser
Science Blogs: “Google Labs just released a new “experiment” – Body Browser. You have to upgrade to Google Chrome beta if you don’t already have it, but when you do, you can play with a 3-D, rotatable reconstruction of a (female) human body. Sliders let you fade the circulatory, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems in… Continue Reading
Save papers to read later
Google Scholar Blog: Found an interesting paper and don’t have time to read it right now? Today we are adding a reading list to your Scholar Library to help you save papers and read them later. You can also use it to save papers you find off-campus but want to read on-campus where you have access… Continue Reading
Find a COVID-19 vaccine near you
“Use Vaccines.gov to find a location near you, then call or visit their website to make an appointment. Find COVID-19 Vaccines & Boosters“ Continue Reading
The Dirty Work of Cleaning Online Reputations
The Walrus – “For a fee, companies will tackle damaging search results. But is the new economy of digital makeovers making things worse?…Cleaning up your image, however, is not cheap. A serious campaign can cost between $10,000 and $20,000 or more and will usually run for at least four to eight months. Matt Earle’s twenty-four… Continue Reading
