Category «Search Engines»

Browsing and Searching Members of Congress: Congress Corral

Tara Calishain – “With the government shutdown, I’ve been seeing a lot of different members of Congress on TV. Some of them I’d never seen before. It made me uncomfortable to listen to their statements and not have any context of who they were and their past political activities. So I made a tool called …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Many Americans say they often come across inaccurate news and have a hard time knowing what’s true

Pew Research: Many Americans often encounter news they think is inaccurate, and those who do are more likely to find it difficult to determine what’s true and what’s not. Nine-in-ten U.S. adults say they at least sometimes come across news they think is inaccurate, including 42% who say this happens extremely often or often. Just …

Subjects: Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

How credible is that person on TikTok? Here’s a checklist.

API – “Trusting News has partnered with The Lenfest Institute’s Knight Communities Network and Project C to put together a Creator Journalism Trust and Credibility Toolkit. It includes an ethics checklist to help assess whether creator journalists and influencers “are working to be fair and accurate,” writes Mollie Muchna. Link: Access the toolkit (Lenfest Institute) …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Data Brokers Explained: Steps to protect your data

YouTube – Data brokerage is a billion-dollar industry built on selling your personal information without your knowledge or consent. In this video, we uncover the shady world of data brokers with investigative reporter Yael Grauer (Consumer Reports) to find out how they operate and what you can do about it. Timestamps as follows for specific …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

How To See Any YouTube Channel’s Livestreams Immediately

Matthew Cassinelli – YouTube has the same permalink for every profile that redirects to the channel’s streams – here’s how I take advantage of it (and my shortcut to do it for you).: “If you’re someone who enjoys watching livestreams on YouTube, you may not know about the permanent redirect for every YouTube channel that …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

3 AI content detectors that identify AI text 100% of the time and an even better option

ZDNet – “I’ve been testing AI content detectors for more than two years. And now there’s an equally effective option that doesn’t require a new subscription….Before I go on, though, let’s discuss plagiarism and how it relates to our problem. Merriam-Webster defines “plagiarize” as “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

ChatGPT Atlas: The Trojan Horse on Your Desktop

The Augmented Educator: Security, Privacy, and Academic Integrity in the Age of Agentic Web Browsers – “A few days ago, OpenAI released Atlas, an agentic web browser that embeds ChatGPT directly into the browsing experience. Atlas is not the first browser of its kind. Perplexity’s Comet and several other experimental systems preceded it. What distinguishes Atlas …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Why every website you used to love is getting worse

Vox: “TikTok and airlines have something in common with your search engine, your grocery app, and (increasingly) your car: They start out great, lock you in, and then quietly get worse while you keep using them. That very familiar decline now has a catchy name: “enshittification.” Cory Doctorow has been writing about this for decades …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Recommended Books, Search Engines, Social Media

US Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

Climate Central maintains this comprehensive database tracking U.S. weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustment to 2025). As of June 2025, the U.S. has sustained 417 such events, with a total cost exceeding $3.1 trillion.

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Clickbait Gives AI Models ‘Brain Rot,’ Researchers Find

Gizmodo: Clickbait Gives AI Models ‘Brain Rot,’ Researchers Find – “If you think scrolling the internet all day is making you dumber, just imagine what it’s doing to large language models that consume a near-endless stream of absolute trash crawled from the web in the name of “training.” A research team recently proposed and tested a …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up to 245 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity. Get started with SearXNG by using one of the instances listed at searx.space. If you don’t trust anyone, you can set up your …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines