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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/08
Recently learned that [Wayback/Archive] geocities – Google Search works just like [Wayback/Archive] comic sans – Google Search (:
Via [Wayback/Archive] if you search up old web hosting site geocities, everything turns into comic sans (you can also search up “comic sans”) : google
Screenshots:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/17
It looks like I missed that Google has added a new URL parameter to its search engine quite a while ago.
In the past, you could turn on image search using the tbm=isch URL parameter (“to be matched” and “image search”).
That still works, but there is a new parameter on the block that is officially undocumented, and can be used to switch into various search modes including image search but also AI-less search.
This drastically lowers the carbon footprint and also gets you far less speculative information.
Edit 20251023: I forgot to save the below part before the scheduled post got published. So here we go
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/15
A lot of people publish unattributed copies of the cartoon “Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”, so I tried finding it back.
I found out that the Google Image Search has deteriorated to the point where it could not find the 2012 original.
Luckily [Wayback/Archive] Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Google Suche did find the original.
So, without further ado, these are links, the original cartoons by [Wayback/Archive] Tom Toro, first published in The New Yorker:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/13
Note that below:
[Wayback/Archive] How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language? – Web Applications Stack Exchange (thanks [Wayback/Archive] ZygD):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/01
Back when I observed the Google Search sei parameter which I hadn’t seen before yet, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – randomaccess3/googleURLParser: parser for Google search strings
It covers a truckload of parameters, including the sei one, which isn’t as new as I thought, as it was at least 2017 old: [Wayback/Archive] [Neat URL] Yet another Google parameter… · Issue #25 · Smile4ever/firefoxaddons · GitHub
Links referred from the parser tool for further reading:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/24
Some good slide material (and even better further down this post) from [Wayback/Archive] Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User”:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/16
tTL;DR: Google Search also (after 3+ manual steps) showing the most recent Wayback Machine archived page for a web-page search result, helps tremendously for pages that are temporarily off-line (everyone knows how stable the cloud – someone else’s computers – or on-premise computing is), but takes too many steps and still doesn’t index the full Wayback Machine.
But there is a Clint Eastwood movie title here, even after the devastating fact that Google now off-loads its Google Cache to the Wayback Machine (which many sites refuse to be archived in), as per [Wayback/Archive] Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead | Ars Technica:
Many posted the links to the big news last week:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/11
Many articles have been published on the Google Leaks earlier this year including a Twitter Thread by Henk van Ess. I will mention his and the original starting article which should give anyone hand and feet to dig deeper and assess for themselves how fast Google might be able to change this and get a feeling on much of it is still relevant over time.
A final note: I wasn’t aware that Google search used the Elixir (programming language) – Wikipedia. Cool!
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/28
No matter if it has switched to AI or not, Googl Search will show the “not a pipe” image first.
[Wayback/Archive] William Gerrard on X: “Google is so broken that the first image it gave me for a pipe is something that is not a pipe 🙄 “
[Wayback/Archive] GOIFP6casAAhOd_.jpg (1170×1085)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/10
I was trying to figure out a way to add a non-indexed URL to the Google Search Engine.
It turns out I could not find English end-points to do that, just non-English ones like:
google.nl)google.com)Based on the above end-points, you might guest that these below work too:
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