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Bang Searches | Dataset Search | Search Gaze Patterns | Search Link

Oct 17, 2022

Bangs are DuckDuckGo shortcuts that take you to search results on other sites. Searching [ !w machine learning ] at DuckDuckGo searches machine learning at Wikipedia. There are more than 10,000 Bangs, including New York Public Library [ !nypl ]. You can even submit your own.
Over a year ago, Google released Dataset Search. There are now more than one hundred Covid19 datasets.
Cornell's Macaulay Library is a scientific archive of 150,000 bird calls and animal sounds. Listen to the cry of red-throated loons from Neiden Fjord, eastern shore, Finnmark, Norway.

75% of Americans go to the internet first when looking for information about health or medical topics. Biased algorithms on YouTube are hurting people searching for health information.

A study of billions of search results finds over 25% of Google searchers click on the 1st organic result.

From linear to non-linear, users increasingly scan search results pages in a pinball pattern.
Writing in macOS and want to avoid switching to your browser to locate a link? SearchLink is a System Service made by Brett Terpstra that handles searching multiple sources. Here is a video from Aaron Dowd.

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