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At long last... ... Google's Dataset search tool is now out of Beta and ready for your consideration.  You can use it to find open-access datasets.  Just search on the topic of interest and you'll see a list of results on the left-s...

Every so often a mystery appears... ... and if you're a SearchResearcher, you have to ask What's going on here?  Of course, that led us to a tough Challenge last time.  So THIS time, let's follow up with a somewhat simpler set of Ch...

I should have known....  .... that this SRS Challenge was more complicated than I'd expected.   I've been working on it for the past week!  As I wrote 2 weeks ago... Rainbows are fairly straightforward.  Here's a...

We live in a remarkable world... .... if only you take the time to notice it.  Here's an example of what I mean.  The other day as I was walking into work, it had been raining, and we had a glorious rainbow.  Here's my photo of...

I'm often surprised... ... when a Search Challenge turns out to be unexpectedly difficult.  Alas, this happens more often than I'd like.  You'd expect that by now I'd have a good sense for what makes a SearchResearch question easy or har...

Goodbye to 2019 and welcome 2020!Sunset on NYE 2019.I'll write up the answer to the previous Challenge tomorrow.  But for today I want to take a quick look back and ask what you liked about 2019's string of Challenges.  I'm asking for tw...

In some sense... ... this blog is all about documents that are difficult to find.  We search for articles about life deep underground, or rivers in Spain, or sex ratios of different animals.  But sometimes we need to find A SPECIFIC...

As I said a couple of weeks ago... ... I don't often recommend videos, but this new video from Google Search Marketing is wonderfully uplifting, and we could all do with a little uplift these days.  I enjoyed it, and I thought you might ...

Let's go deep.  As discussed, I have NO IDEA what animals might live deep in the earth. But... Anyone down there? Does anything live down there?  How far down in the earth does life extend?  You can see where this is ...

As you know, I love diving... ... and although I never go much below 100 feet (33 meters), I'm fascinated by the creatures that live way down deep in the sea.  They're interesting, wonderful, and exceedingly strange.  But... as I wa...

I bet you’re a skilled online searcher... ....if you’re reading this, you might even be an expert at online search. Note:  This post originally appeared in the blog, Connected Learning.  But improving your search skills is one ...

I first noticed the river's end because it didn't make any sense to me...  When I went on my run, I got to that point at the river's edge and noticed that it just sort of... stopped!  That's the part that didn't look right to me.  H...

Travel is always surprising.  At least it is to me.  I go somewhere, and I usually find myself asking WHY questions.  I know I must sound like a 6-year old—why...why...why...why— but those questions often lead to fun adventures...

You'd expect it to be a 50/50 split... ... that is, the split of sexes in any particular animal population. But, as we've noticed before the majority of parrotfish on a reef are female (see our earlier blog post about parrotfish).&n...

I read an interesting article... ... in The Atlantic Monthly.  To wit, The Quirk of Collecting That Skews Museum Specimens Male, and had a sudden insight... Even though I know that the majority of parrotfish on a reef are femal...