Tara Calishain's Projects
A Google Search interface to quickly eliminate recent news from a Google News search.
A Google search filter for digging deep into old blogging results.
A Google filter for searching recently created blog content, with an option to review the same search for content from 1, 3, 5, 10, and 15 years ago.
A tool for generating name variants and searching for them on Google, Google Books, Google Scholar, and Internet Archive
A platform using the ProPublica Congress API to build Google queries for congressional Twitter space. Covers congresses 112-117.
Pulls birth/death dates from Wikipedia and generates lifepan-limited searches for several media search engines.
Over 900 higher education-related RSS feeds
A tool that uses Wikipedia page view counts to find potentially-newsworthy dates for Wikipedia article subjects
Create RSS feeds with expiration dates in the title
A simple tool for making a dozen different keyword-based RSS feeds
A targeted search filter to find like-minded people and pages via Google and Twitter.
A bookmarklet that makes it easy to follow Mastodon users on different instances.
Quick n' dirty search of the Instance.Social API by keyword of both name and description. You'll need a key.
Rips links from Mastodon instance timelines and shows them to you in aggregate. Includes simple keyword and time filters.
Enter a list of hashtags to monitor and Mastodon instances, and MSS makes a plain, full-screen display that updates every 90 seconds.
A simple Google filter for removing as much ecommerce content as possible.
Search for higher education institutions by zip code radius and then explore their TwitterSpace.
A search interface that uses the Geocodify API to make location-based Twitter search easy.
Add sitting congresspeople to your Google News search
Search the Twitter space of a state's congressional representatives.
A bookmarklet that uses a simple query suffix to remove AI summaries from Google search results.
Config files for my GitHub profile.
Moved to SearchGizmos.com
Bookmarklet which forces Google to do its search date-limited to two-days before today.
A filter to search the Twitterspace of current members of the US Senate. You can filter by generation, gender, party, Zodiac sign, number of votes missed, etc.
Google's search results are different depending on the order of the query words. Search shuffle takes a query of up to 4 words and creates Google search URLs for all possible query combinations.
A Google search filter that adds a "sinker" to a standard query - a search term that's used until Google's search query limit of 32 is reached.
A topical search tool for Google
Get past site:edu with Department of Education college information that allows you to narrowly target university Web space.
A Google search filter that excludes the common name formatting of "Firstname Lastname" in search results, instead flipping the name search.