Wednesday, October 9, 2024

SearchResearch Challenge (10/9/24): Finding similar content?

 When you like something... 

P/C Gemini. [create an image of a hall of mirrors with trees and mountains]

... you probably want some more.  And sometimes you want something similar--not quite the same thing, but something that's close, but perhaps with a slightly different take.  Maybe something that's a refracted / reflected / slightly transformed version of your original idea.  

This happens to me when I'm researching a topic and want additional information that's not just a duplicate of what I've already got.  

And this is our Challenge for this week: 

1. How can you find related sites (or content) to something that you know about?  Suppose you want to learn more about Search and Research methods:  Can you find similar or related websites to our trusty SearchResearch1.blogspot.com?  

2. Same question, but about a different website:  Again, one of my favorite sites, www.3blue1brown.com (an excellent science/math/tech site with lots of exquisite videos illustrating complex topics).  

I know you can find these sites, but HOW can you do it?  

BIG HINT:  No matter what Google tells you when you search for similar sites, e.g. [how to find related sites on Google], the related: operator has been deprecated since June, 2023.  It is no more--it has ceased to be. (See the note from Google's SearchLiaison.)  

What would you tell a friend about how to do this kind of search? 

Let us know in the comments.  

Keep searching.  


9 comments:

  1. Some years ago, I tried to find related sites to SearchReSearch. I remember that I used related. Also tried adding word similar. The results were not good.

    I am sure that there's not another space like this.

    To search for the topic my advice has been always: Keyword site: SearchReSearch.... And after that we have a lot to keep going.

    About this Challenge. I'm not sure how to. Not just because related is gone but because similar or related can be tricky. I think it's like when we use Around () a connection is there but not always is what we want.

    I'm looking forward to learn. And also going to visit Q2 site. I didn't know about it. Or at least I don't remember it now

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  2. …well if Google won't play, went to b i n g -
    https://paperpile.com/g/academic-search-engines/
    https://www.scijournal.org/articles/academic-search-engines

    https://sitechecker.pro/similar-websites/

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=bing+find+similar+sites+to+www.3blue1brown.com+&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&lq=0&pq=bing+find+similar+sites+to+www.3blue1brown.com+&sc=0-47&sk=&cvid=093FFBBA027B4F8D97DF6EC1BF8C0521&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=
    https://www.similarweb.com/website/3blue1brown.com/competitors/

    weird - you look like my art prof. in this:
    https://youtu.be/K8t4rbyjRFM?si=JMNR-mnihu1kBkTR
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=searchresearch+dan+russell
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01011-2
    https://www.proofnews.org/lessons-from-googles-ai-mistakes/
    https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2018/08/searchresearch-challenge-82218-how-to.html

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  3. Use Marginalia similar site search: https://explore2.marginalia.nu/search?domain=https%3A%2F%2Fsearchresearch1.blogspot.com

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  4. tried a visual search of a 3blue1brown.com yt grab -
    just to see if anything similar appeared & related site info
    https://shorturl.at/zBdo1
    video -
    https://youtu.be/EmKQsSDlaa4?si=fCBDWaXPfHrEZcQv
    variant, different results -
    https://shorturl.at/R3pT6
    >> https://youtu.be/3a72Lhj30fQ?si=5PtuXTFKci6w5lb6

    eventually led to this:
    https://shorturl.at/Clpt0
    https://news.ycombinator.com/news
    searched 'holograms' - ctrl,f -
    https://hn.algolia.com/?q=holograms
    from the visual search -
    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/shadow-world

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    1. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+use+wikipedia+as+a+search+engine&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab
      https://guides.library.jhu.edu/c.php?g=1005539&p=7300758
      https://guides.library.jhu.edu/c.php?g=1005539&p=7304202
      https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wikipedia-seo/459191/
      https://www.quora.com/Whats-your-review-of-wikipedias-search-vs-using-Google-with-site-wikipedia-org
      https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Searching

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    2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching

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    3. This is a great link... I'd totally forgotten about this "how to search Wikipedia" page. Excellent post.

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  5. some other leads to explore regarding 3blue1brown.com/Grant Sanderson…
    see: Associated acts, in right info panel of wiki page
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Blue1Brown

    "The channel name and logo reference the color of Grant's right eye, which has blue-brown"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum#Sectoral

    also see references on wiki page - wiki as a quasi-search engine? examples (Stanford Daily) -
    https://stanforddaily.com/2020/01/24/3blue1brown-creator-grant-sanderson-15-talks-engaging-with-math-using-stories-and-visuals/
    and Toby Hendy (NZ) -
    https://youtu.be/up21mvokyQ4?si=1kK96nsagQUInlo8
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Hendy
    & further reading -
    https://www.ams.org/notices/202210/rnoti-p1789.pdf

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