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by mosiuerbarso 1106 days ago
https://researchbuzz.me/

Run by the tireless Tara Calishain. Covers the world of search engines, archives, social media, online information collections, and other interesting stuff. She's been running the site 1998. Not many sites like this around much these days.
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Calishat 1106 days ago
Hey,thanks very much. I was wondering where all that traffic was coming from.

For those of you who are more interested in very specific information, there's also ResearchBuzz Firehose, which indexes individual items so you can do tag- and query-monitoring without trouble. Here's an article on how to make the most of it: https://researchbuzz.me/2015/06/23/introducing-the-researchb...

It's wonderful to see people getting into RSS and news feeds again. I have a site called RSSGizmos.com with a number of tools for making the most of RSS, including a keyword-based RSS feed generator and a tool to make RSS feeds using Bing News' loc: syntax.

Everything's free and there are no ads.

Thank you again, it was so kind of you to mention my site.

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mosiuerbarso 1106 days ago
Hahaha. No probs Tara. I've been a long term reader of your site for probably a decade or so, and i've found loads of useful/ interesting stuff over the years because of it. I honestly don't know how you keep up with all the things you post about (do you ever sleep:-). Hope you and the family are well and keep up the good work;-) If any HN readers are into RSS, monitoring topics/keywords and finding obscure stuff online I recommend checking out her tools/guides. She has some pretty creative stuff on there which are usually free to use/implement.
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amitagarwal 1100 days ago
+1 There are very few people like Tara who have been curating such good stuff for such a long time.
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