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Tara Calishain

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North Carolina
As seen in: Global Investigative Journalism Network, Saturday Evening Post Magazine, Information Today, Online Searcher, LLRX, Researchbuzz.me, LXer Linux News, FOSS Force
Covers:  search engines, databases, archives, citizen science, digital impermanence, online learning, etc
Doesn't Cover: enterprise computing, software languages/programming, SEO

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Tara Calishain’s Biography

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I've been writing about search engines and the Internet since 1996. My especially interest is search engines, archives, databases, and other online information collections. Wrote or co-wrote a bunch of books, including GOOGLE HACKS, INFORMATION TRAPPING, OFFICIAL NETSCAPE GUIDE TO INTERNET RESEARCH (give me a break, it was 1996) and WEB SEARCH GARAGE.

Tara Calishain’s Journalist Portfolio

Google Adds Two New Syntax for Date Search

Google Adds Two New Syntax for Date Search

Google has retained date search all along, making it easier to use with the addition of date ranges (and cust…

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A Couple of Quick Bookmarklets For Viewing a Suspended / Deleted Twitter User

A Couple of Quick Bookmarklets For Viewing a Suspended / Deleted Twitter User

As I move away from Facebook I'm spending more time on Twitter. Not that Twitter has some kind of claim of mo…

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How to Get Your Photos Out of Facebook and Into Somewhere Else

How to Get Your Photos Out of Facebook and Into Somewhere Else

As more and more news about Facebook comes out, I'm feeling less and less comfortable with being on Facebook.…

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Going Old School to Solve A Google Search Problem

Going Old School to Solve A Google Search Problem

Recently I got an email from my friend John Simpson. He was having a search problem and thought I might be ab…

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The Problem of Fake News Is Not Recent, But Our Current Internet Ecosystem Is

The Problem of Fake News Is Not Recent, But Our Current Internet Ecosystem Is

“If you wanted to publish a book that says 2 plus 2 equals 5, you had to go through a lot of effort and spend…

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Browsing and Searching Members of Congress: Congress Corral

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By Sabrina I. Pacifici, Tara Calishain Verified
| bespacific.com
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 Congress Corral ( https://congresscorral.com/ ). Congress Corral is free to use and has no ads.
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A 3-Minute Video on How to Use Wikipedia Seismograph

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By Tara Calishain Verified
| calishat.com
EDIT: Someone asked me if this video is on YouTube. It is, right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8XxxvQ6alY . I wanted to make sure I provided it in a format that didn’t automatically come with advertising, which is why I didn’t share that link first. I have a phobia about doing videos because I have a goofy voice and a goofy accent. I’m trying to get over it.
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Five Ways Google Could Improve Search In 2025 That Have Nothing To Do With AI

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By Tara Calishain Verified
| LXer Linux News
Originally published on Calishat. You might have read that Google is planning to go hard on AI in 2025. I’m not surprised, but I am disappointed. Google doubling down on AI tech while its search results get less and less useful is frustrating. More frustrating is the fact that there are ALL KINDS of things Google could do to make it search better that have NOTHING to do with AI. Imagine! Nothing to do with ridiculous water consumption, or jacked-up energy use, or copyright minefields.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, though I learned touch typing from my mother's old leftover typing books, "practicing" on the keyboard layout printed on the back cover.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email is best, text if you must, please don't call me unless Willy Wonka just bought Google and I get all the golden tickets.

When's the best time to pitch you?

I don't really have one. I tend to be awake earlier rather than later.
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