Remove these crappy ultra-long links from my Google Search Results when I right-click! [more inside]
posted by cashman on Nov 5, 2009 - 5 answers

Where to start: extracting images from a Twitter search and presenting them on a webpage? [more inside]
posted by nostrich on Oct 26, 2009 - 3 answers

Quick! Geocities closes shop tomorrow! Is there an efficient way to search my favorites/bookmarks for geocities pages that might be in there? So I can steal the content before it goes bye bye? [more inside]
posted by rahnefan on Oct 25, 2009 - 10 answers

Say that Citizen Kane really wanted to find Rosebud - who would he call? Is there a kind of specific person who tracks down these personal lost things? [more inside]
posted by rileyray3000 on Oct 14, 2009 - 3 answers

I need a kind soul in South Korea to find school records of a woman born in 1937, to help us begin our search for the birth family of our adopted cousin. [more inside]
posted by cda on Sep 30, 2009 - 16 answers

My five year written book journal is almost done. I'm looking for some some sort of very easy mac journal program to replace it. [more inside]
posted by rileyray3000 on Sep 30, 2009 - 9 answers

Can I use shell style globs or something like regexp to search for online content? [more inside]
posted by idiopath on Sep 14, 2009 - 5 answers

Where does one proactively look for software (specifically Flex) jobs these days? [more inside]
posted by drjimmy11 on Sep 11, 2009 - 6 answers

How can I search all my folders at once in Outlook 2007? [more inside]
posted by zooropa on Sep 9, 2009 - 8 answers

Is there a way to quickly check if a certain song (or artist) is on Pitchfork's list of the top 500 tracks of the decade? I've been Googling to try to see if anyone has posted a plain-text version of the whole list on one page, but I haven't found it. [more inside]
posted by Jaltcoh on Sep 4, 2009 - 13 answers

Excel2007Filter: I want to be able to search information between two things in a single cell in Excel. So a cell may have 4-9 typed in it, but I want that cell to be highlighted if a user searches for 7. Or 4. Or anything between 4 and 9 inclusively. (More details and a screenshot of the spreadsheet inside.) [more inside]
posted by sperose on Sep 2, 2009 - 3 answers

I need to access certain data loaded in memory by an application. There are certain application specific encrypted files, which the program decrypts and loads into memory. Can I see the data in the memory used by the application? [more inside]
posted by inquisitive on Sep 1, 2009 - 4 answers

Aside from ease of editing and maintaining individual documents, are there arguments for the use of styles in Microsoft Word? [more inside]
posted by chocolate_butch on Sep 1, 2009 - 6 answers

Is a published Google Doc document autoindexed by Google or hidden until it is first linked by another page? [more inside]
posted by nolnar on Aug 28, 2009 - 5 answers

What's that movie in which two male thieves synchronise the timing of their heist by whistling jazz songs? [more inside]
posted by oxit on Aug 23, 2009 - 14 answers

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Filter. I'm looking for a method (or category of methods) to judge the relevancy of a small unit of text, 100-200 chars, against similar units of text. [more inside]
posted by kuatto on Aug 8, 2009 - 6 answers

Why does this google search not find this AskMe thread? Or what can I do to my search terms to make this search work? [more inside]
posted by Mitheral on Aug 5, 2009 - 5 answers

I'm going crazy trying to find the title of a Wilco song I heard yesterday. It's a song that references women from different parts of the country wanting to "get with" the protagonist. My efforts to search their lyrics by album has come up fruitless.
posted by dagnyduquette on Aug 1, 2009 - 6 answers

Is it possible to search through your own Facebook profile? After having used Facebook for about two years now, I'm wondering: How am I supposed to find e. g. a posted link from a year ago? Sure, I could scroll down my profile and always click on "show older posts" but this is really not the way it should work, should it? Maybe I'm just completely ignorant, but could someone please point out, how you are able to search through the posted contents within your own profile? Thanks, Bjoern
posted by Isdaron on Jul 31, 2009 - 10 answers

The Adventures of the Black Hand Gang, are there other books that are similar? [more inside]
posted by dejah420 on Jul 30, 2009 - 10 answers

18 year old Australian introverted indoorsy uni drop-out seeks employment in recession. No qualifications (a business cert from school), no drivers license, no skills (maybe typing), no experience, no references, limited public transport. What now? [more inside]
posted by b33j on Jul 30, 2009 - 30 answers

Do Google and Bing spider XML pages? [more inside]
posted by netbros on Jul 28, 2009 - 2 answers

How do I change part of a title across several episodes of the same podcast in iTunes? [more inside]
posted by booksherpa on Jul 27, 2009 - 2 answers

Is there a way to search for xbox live friends by email, the way there is for everything else on the internet these days? [more inside]
posted by billtron on Jul 24, 2009 - 2 answers

Thankfully I have a job. However it was a job gotten at a time that I just needed a side job because I was planning to go to grad school. Grad school didn't work out 2 years in a row so now it's time to move on. I don't know where to start in my new location based on my previous real life work experience... [more inside]
posted by MayNicholas on Jul 17, 2009 - 9 answers

I want to find a fairly easy-to-adapt template from which to do multiple site searching with a single term. My technical abilities are, let's say, modest. [more inside]
posted by peacay on Jul 7, 2009 - 3 answers

Searching for MARC fields in Millennium OPAC 'Create Lists,' or, more precisely: how can I limit search results to classed serials? [more inside]
posted by wowbobwow on Jun 12, 2009 - 7 answers

Is there any evidence, academic or from industry, showing that search engines improving their algorithms have been hitting diminishing returns? Or, contrary, has there been significant progress recently in search ranking algorithms? [more inside]
posted by tasty on Jun 9, 2009 - 13 answers

Google search seems to be exhibiting an irritating new behavior. Please help! [more inside]
posted by limeonaire on Jun 8, 2009 - 18 answers

Is possible to disable "find in page" on Safari 4 Beta? [more inside]
posted by Leech on Jun 7, 2009 - 13 answers

I need to find all the businesses around a specific location near Montreal. The Yellow Pages and Google Maps both ask for keywords, but I don't want to narrow down my search. How can I do this?
posted by OLechat on Jun 5, 2009 - 1 answer

How do I interpret Google image searches that lead people to my blog? [more inside]
posted by marxchivist on May 28, 2009 - 6 answers

Where did I read about a semi-famous blogger and entrepreneur's advice on webhosting? [more inside]
posted by pwnguin on May 24, 2009 - 6 answers

How do I get someone's contact info without having to pay a service like LinkedIn for their e-mail address? [more inside]
posted by MTheresa on May 19, 2009 - 13 answers

Two tech questions: I've just started running into a weird message when I try to go to a page on the ABC News page: This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. and this is the URL I was reading a NYT story earlier today that mentioned Lamda at the very end of the story. Cleared the cookies, shut down and restarted both browsers (IE and Firefox) but keep getting the same message. Separately, lately when I read certain blogs, I am suddenly taken to a Google images search page; the original pages' URL shows up in the search field and the message is that the URL can't be found. I cannot seem to get rid of this problem. All ideas welcome, and thanks.
posted by etaoin on May 19, 2009 - 5 answers

Outside of porn which I am not concerned about what does UK/US customs look for on laptop computers? Specifically, I have some movies that I have 'ripped' from dvd and I wanted to know if those are something they get finicky about.
posted by occidental on May 11, 2009 - 47 answers

SEO Filter: My boss has asked me for a blue sky list of SEO tools. What are your favorites? (more details inside) [more inside]
posted by DrDreidel on May 6, 2009 - 2 answers

I'm looking for a way to search for Wikipedia entries by locality or by gps coordinates, like the iPhone WikiMe application does except on the web. Any suggestions? Thanks!!
posted by Misciel on May 5, 2009 - 3 answers

Can I somehow create a program (a Bot?) to automatically start a Google search of Pandora and/or Last.fm songs as they are playing? [more inside]
posted by jaseaco on May 3, 2009 - 2 answers

Help me find websites that trade or sell gently used cosmetics. [more inside]
posted by scazza on Apr 28, 2009 - 9 answers

How can I find keywords that many people search for but don't find many links? [more inside]
posted by spacefire on Apr 25, 2009 - 4 answers

Is SEO worth paying for? [more inside]
posted by man down under on Apr 20, 2009 - 13 answers

I know there are a bunch of job search websites out there like Career Builder, Monster and Indeed and all that other crap. I was just wondering if there are any other good ones out there that may have popped up recently that may not be as well known as the usual sites.
posted by zzazazz on Apr 20, 2009 - 13 answers

I have a ton of garbage text with about 100 email addresses scattered within. I want a text file containing just those email addresses. Is there an MS Word search/replace query that will do that? What is it? (Or is there another way?)
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Apr 13, 2009 - 15 answers

I'm looking to digitise all of my documents or as many as possible, but am slightly weary about shredding everything what sorts of documents should i keep original paper copies of and which should I digitise? I ask because I don't want to end up in a sticky legal situation where I would require the original paper copy. [more inside]
posted by Chamunks on Apr 10, 2009 - 6 answers

Is there a Word plugin or standalone program that will search a Word doc and list all occurrences of a given string, preferably with surrounding words for context? [more inside]
posted by Naberius on Apr 9, 2009 - 4 answers

Is there any service that searches across Getty, Corbis, Alamy, and other major professional editorial photo resources? [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Apr 8, 2009 - 2 answers

Try out your web meta-search skills: can anyone help my good friend find out where to get this Bob Dylan T-Shirt? [more inside]
posted by quickasfoxes on Apr 7, 2009 - 2 answers

Sort of a two-part question, though answering the first part will help me answer the second. First, does anyone know of a (preferably online) way to search for plays by topic or subject matter? Searching for title keywords is sometimes useful but not ideal, and I haven't been able to make the search functions at the major playhouses' websites play nicely either. Second, in particular, I'm looking for plays about, referencing, or otherwise related to fire, smoke, etc. Any thoughts on either? [more inside]
posted by hatta on Apr 3, 2009 - 9 answers

Job search etiquette? So it has been three weeks since an interview, where the interviewer said it would take three or four weeks to make a decision. Is it wise/appropriate to send an email or make a call inquiring on the process? Does that look or sound desperate or keenly interested? [more inside]
posted by Gungho on Mar 30, 2009 - 14 answers