Tara Calishain
@researchbuzz.bsky.social
Obsessed with search engines, databases, and online information collections forever. Writing books & such since 1996 (OFFICIAL NETSCAPE GUIDE TO INTERNET RESEARCH, GOOGLE HACKS, INFORMATION TRAPPING, etc) and ResearchBuzz since 1998. I live at Calishat.com
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November 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This thread was brought to you by Congress Corral, which uses #Wikipedia page view data to analyze public interest since 2017 in current #Congress members . High-interest dates are turned into date-bounded Google searches which I turn into a thread for you.
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Tonight on a very special Congress Corral
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Tonight on a very special Congress Corral
'The production company behind controversial AI "actor" Tilly Norwood has announced plans with History Channel in the Netherlands for a new AI-assisted historical travel series.'
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
'The production company behind controversial AI "actor" Tilly Norwood has announced plans with History Channel in the Netherlands for a new AI-assisted historical travel series.'
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Once the user has found the public interest overlap, they can create date-based Google / Google News searches for that span, featuring one or both of the Wikipedia articles.
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Free to use, no ads. Also fun.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Once the user has found the public interest overlap, they can create date-based Google / Google News searches for that span, featuring one or both of the Wikipedia articles.
Free to use, no ads. Also fun.
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Free to use, no ads. Also fun.
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Here's what I'm using to find these news stories: attentionjunction.com . Attention Junction looks at the page views of two Wikipedia articles, finds times of high public interest (view count) and then maps the overlaps in interest between the two articles.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Here's what I'm using to find these news stories: attentionjunction.com . Attention Junction looks at the page views of two Wikipedia articles, finds times of high public interest (view count) and then maps the overlaps in interest between the two articles.
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This is Baker's Wikipedia Seismograph from 1 January 2017 to 1 January 2024. You can see between roughly 2020-2022 he was attracting a lot of public interest. It settled down for a while but now it looks like it's swinging up again
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is Baker's Wikipedia Seismograph from 1 January 2017 to 1 January 2024. You can see between roughly 2020-2022 he was attracting a lot of public interest. It settled down for a while but now it looks like it's swinging up again
I'm playing with the idea of WordPress search as hiking trail
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I'm playing with the idea of WordPress search as hiking trail
?? This is what I got
October 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
?? This is what I got
Don't forget to make a Wikipedia graveyard for Wikiween!
wikitwister.com/wikiween/
#Wikipedia #Halloween
wikitwister.com/wikiween/
#Wikipedia #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Don't forget to make a Wikipedia graveyard for Wikiween!
wikitwister.com/wikiween/
#Wikipedia #Halloween
wikitwister.com/wikiween/
#Wikipedia #Halloween
Do you like #politics? Do you like #LocalNews?
I made you a thing called Congress Corral. It lets you browse members of Congress, find times of particular public interest, and do local news / higher education searches.
Free, no ads, an elegant and earnest Calishat jam. 🤣
congresscorral.com
I made you a thing called Congress Corral. It lets you browse members of Congress, find times of particular public interest, and do local news / higher education searches.
Free, no ads, an elegant and earnest Calishat jam. 🤣
congresscorral.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Do you like #politics? Do you like #LocalNews?
I made you a thing called Congress Corral. It lets you browse members of Congress, find times of particular public interest, and do local news / higher education searches.
Free, no ads, an elegant and earnest Calishat jam. 🤣
congresscorral.com
I made you a thing called Congress Corral. It lets you browse members of Congress, find times of particular public interest, and do local news / higher education searches.
Free, no ads, an elegant and earnest Calishat jam. 🤣
congresscorral.com
Why is JD Vance sitting like the Maxwell guy
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Why is JD Vance sitting like the Maxwell guy
Me discovering Google News Topic IDs have their own RSS feeds
October 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Me discovering Google News Topic IDs have their own RSS feeds
#Halloween is coming up so I made you a fun #Wikipedia tool.
Choose your category and Wikiween will find all the dearly-departed and make you a spooky cemetery. Click on a tombstone to get more details about each one!
wikitwister.com/wikiween/
Choose your category and Wikiween will find all the dearly-departed and make you a spooky cemetery. Click on a tombstone to get more details about each one!
wikitwister.com/wikiween/
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#Halloween is coming up so I made you a fun #Wikipedia tool.
Choose your category and Wikiween will find all the dearly-departed and make you a spooky cemetery. Click on a tombstone to get more details about each one!
wikitwister.com/wikiween/
Choose your category and Wikiween will find all the dearly-departed and make you a spooky cemetery. Click on a tombstone to get more details about each one!
wikitwister.com/wikiween/
Us too! I don't know how many thousand people turned up at our event but it sure as hell wasn't just hundreds, lol
October 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Us too! I don't know how many thousand people turned up at our event but it sure as hell wasn't just hundreds, lol
The new version #NoKings TV is ready to go!
The original version let users browse protest news from 112 sources across 20 metro areas.
The upgraded version adds Portland as well as a "ticker" and "river" of protest news.
No Kings TV is free to use and free of ads.
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
The original version let users browse protest news from 112 sources across 20 metro areas.
The upgraded version adds Portland as well as a "ticker" and "river" of protest news.
No Kings TV is free to use and free of ads.
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The new version #NoKings TV is ready to go!
The original version let users browse protest news from 112 sources across 20 metro areas.
The upgraded version adds Portland as well as a "ticker" and "river" of protest news.
No Kings TV is free to use and free of ads.
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
The original version let users browse protest news from 112 sources across 20 metro areas.
The upgraded version adds Portland as well as a "ticker" and "river" of protest news.
No Kings TV is free to use and free of ads.
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
I am VERY delighted because now #NoKings TV has a river of news items filtered for protest-related news. Pulling from 80 sources so there's plenty going on, refreshes about every 15 minutes.
Free! No Ads! No Kings!
#NoKings #RSS #LocalNews #OSINT
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
Free! No Ads! No Kings!
#NoKings #RSS #LocalNews #OSINT
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
October 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I am VERY delighted because now #NoKings TV has a river of news items filtered for protest-related news. Pulling from 80 sources so there's plenty going on, refreshes about every 15 minutes.
Free! No Ads! No Kings!
#NoKings #RSS #LocalNews #OSINT
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
Free! No Ads! No Kings!
#NoKings #RSS #LocalNews #OSINT
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Okay, the new design of #NoKings TV is live!
No Kings TV aggregates information from over 110 media outlets in the top 20 markets. Info is both print and video (via YouTube RSS.)
Filters available for protest-specific news (not much yet.)
Free! No ads! MORE TO COME!
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
No Kings TV aggregates information from over 110 media outlets in the top 20 markets. Info is both print and video (via YouTube RSS.)
Filters available for protest-specific news (not much yet.)
Free! No ads! MORE TO COME!
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
October 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Okay, the new design of #NoKings TV is live!
No Kings TV aggregates information from over 110 media outlets in the top 20 markets. Info is both print and video (via YouTube RSS.)
Filters available for protest-specific news (not much yet.)
Free! No ads! MORE TO COME!
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
No Kings TV aggregates information from over 110 media outlets in the top 20 markets. Info is both print and video (via YouTube RSS.)
Filters available for protest-specific news (not much yet.)
Free! No ads! MORE TO COME!
searchtweaks.com/nkt/
I do appreciate the Bluesky algo sense of humor
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I do appreciate the Bluesky algo sense of humor
I threw together No Kings TV in a hurry last summer when it turned out hubs and I couldn't attend (he was recovering from surgery.)
Working on a redesign and some more features. Adding Portland to the list is my first priority, but I have more ideas too.
Current: searchtweaks.com/nkt/
#NoKings
Working on a redesign and some more features. Adding Portland to the list is my first priority, but I have more ideas too.
Current: searchtweaks.com/nkt/
#NoKings
October 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I threw together No Kings TV in a hurry last summer when it turned out hubs and I couldn't attend (he was recovering from surgery.)
Working on a redesign and some more features. Adding Portland to the list is my first priority, but I have more ideas too.
Current: searchtweaks.com/nkt/
#NoKings
Working on a redesign and some more features. Adding Portland to the list is my first priority, but I have more ideas too.
Current: searchtweaks.com/nkt/
#NoKings
I put "Fractal" into Gossip Machine and it worked! Of course the biggest day was when Google did a Mandelbrot Doodle.
October 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I put "Fractal" into Gossip Machine and it worked! Of course the biggest day was when Google did a Mandelbrot Doodle.