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Hunting YouTube Content

A successful hunt for data includes dragging your prey home and preparing it for consumption. If you have a hungry client to feed, then you will have to chop-up your prey into digestible chunks, cook...

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Proximity Search on Google-Free Wednesday

The international version of Yandex, the Russian search engine, has a collection of advanced commands that include a proximity operator that is extremely useful for drilling down to what your really...

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Searching Periscope & Meerkat

Periscope, the free iPhone app from Twitter is the clear winner against first-comer Meerkat. Periscope is mobile live streaming that lets the user share what is happening right now and relive it later...

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Canadian Criminal Court Documents

The following lists the court documents that you should order when reviewing an accused’s involvement in a criminal prosecution in Canada. In Canada, the charges are contained in the ‘Information‘. A...

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When things get complex

Advangle helps you build complex web-search queries in Google and Bing. You can quickly build a query with multiple parameters (such as the ‘domain’, ‘language’ or ‘date published’) and immediately see...

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Saving Bozo Eruptions

I normally suggest using the WayBack Machine to preserve Bozo Eruptions, but there is another way to do this. Archive.is takes a ‘snapshot’ of a webpage that will always be online even if the original...

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Darknet Proxy

Normally,  you must connect to the underground network known as the darknet by using the Tor browser to view pages hosted there. I recently found a new way to view pages without the need for the TOR...

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Either OR

Most of the time, when searching in Google, the OR command works, but it must be in capitals–always in captials OR Google will ignore it.

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The Asterisk

In Google, the asterisk is a substitute for one or more unknown terms between two words. It is not a truncation symbol.

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Verbatim

In Google, Verbatim is not a command. If Google misbehaves by including strange terms that have nothing to do with your search statement, or if the search results entirely ignore some of your seach...

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