Tara Calishain – “As you might imagine, I do a lot of web search in the course of my day. Often these queries are quick reference lookups; I need to find a company’s social media, for example, or I want to see how to spell someone’s name. Unfortunately these kinds of searches on Google are being met more and more with AI-generated results. I have tried all the little tricks to avoid them, but the tricks are getting less and less useful as Google appears determined to ram AI down our collective throats. Every time I see the AI response being generated for a basic search, I wonder how much energy and water it cost and I feel bad that I set it off. After using a number of my own tools to try and get information without doing an open search on Google, I have combined some of the elements of MegaGladys, SearchTweaks, and RSSGizmos to make MiniGladys, a Wikipedia-based set of four tools that both surfaces reference information from Wikipedia and uses Wikipedia data to create more focused Google searches should they need to be done. MiniGladys is free and has no ads. Let me show you how it works…”