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SearchReSearch
Personal blog · searchresearch1.blogspot.comdataproductivity
SearchReSearch is a personal blog at searchresearch1.blogspot.com about data and productivity. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as the blog of Dan Russell, a Google search researcher, on using Google Search for research and on how people use search. Commenters recommend it for its quirky search challenges.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging.
What Hacker News says?
This may help you. https://bit.ly/AllTheOperators I also recommend checking out Dan Russell's (lead researcher on the Google Search team) blog. https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/
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on “Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?”Submitted New search-by-image method on Bing.com as a story · 131 points
HN discussionFWIW, if you enjoy this kind of stuff, you might like Daniel Russell's (Google research scientist, creator of A Google A Day) blog on using Google Search for research (and research on how people use search): http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/ He regularly posts quirky challenges (What kind of cow is in this picture? Can you see the Farallon Islands from San Francisco, and where should you stand at what time of yea…
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on “A Google a Day”Submitted Answer: How many center-pivot irrigation systems do you see? as a story · 88 points
HN discussionAnd his blog: https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/
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on “Advanced Search Operators – Dan Russell(Google Search Senior Research Scientist)”Submitted Answer: Seed dispersal mechanisms for giant seeds? (and search strategies) as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every So Often as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Search by reading level as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where can you find this in the street? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why research skills matter more than ever as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where are you? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Are You? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every So Often as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video content from the PowerSearchingWithGoogle.com course as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Answer: Whither the foggy weather? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AROUND has always been around as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does it mean to be literate in the Age of Google? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does it mean to be literate? as a story · 1 points
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