I have a lot of (50GB) pdfs and some epub documents. I would like to find a way to search through them quickly and accurately, in a way that is web accessible. I would like highlights of matches from inside the document to display.
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posted by digividal
on Apr 25, 2013 -
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I tried to search a database at the place I volunteer with REGEX, but it didn't work. The database interface has some built-in options to search, so I have been messing with those trying to figure out what conventions it will allow. Can you tell me what this is?
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posted by Nattie
on Apr 23, 2013 -
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Hey Mefites, here's my question:
My younger sister, mother, and I suffered years of abuse at the hands of an alcoholic stepfather - physical, verbal, etc. When we were younger, my sister and I were absolutely focused on getting the fuck out and did, getting scholarships to great schools, thankfully. My mom, not so much. She is no longer in a relationship with him, but they have been living together for economic reasons - she needs his disability paycheck to pay the bills (all of which are in her name, including the mortgage payment.)
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 19, 2013 -
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I am looking to expand my business in a new way and and would like to know what salary to offer for the position. This is a new experience for me so I have no idea what to offer. Is there a resource that could calculate the job with the market and give me an idea where to start with a figure?
posted by citybuddha
on Apr 4, 2013 -
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I'm a female in the US, about to get married for the second time and taking my husband's name. Help me manage how my new name appears online before it starts to happen.
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 2, 2013 -
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I have two specialized blogs in very specific areas (palindromes, Taoism). They do not show up when I do keyword searches in RSS readers such as Feedly, while barely related blogs do (e.g. one by a woman named Hannah with palindrome in the title. How can I get my actually directly-on-topic blogs to appear?
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posted by msalt
on Mar 19, 2013 -
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What is the best way to approach somebody in a career field about the possibility of arranging an informational interview? This is assuming you do not have a connection to a person.
posted by dfc5656
on Feb 26, 2013 -
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Lawyer getting great experience in a shrinking subspecialty. Work environment has flaws. Have the opportunity to move. Worried about grass being greener, frying pan/fire, etc. Special details inside.
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 24, 2013 -
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I had an interview today for a sales job and agreed to do a 5 hour training course today. I decided against it not long after. I left a message with the main company should I call the actual interviewer person?
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posted by mamamia88
on Feb 20, 2013 -
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I need help focusing my job search, finding something decent with a degree but very little relevant work experience, and keeping from getting too discouraged in the process.
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posted by seraph9
on Feb 11, 2013 -
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I don't know how to find a job. I made good grades in college. I've done some good internships. Usually once I get to the interview process, I get offered a job. I just don't know where to start with my job search.
Looking for anecdotal advice. How did you get your first break into the career you wanted?
posted by sunrisecoffee
on Feb 10, 2013 -
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I need to do a rough and ready news analysis. I want to go to a specific news site and see the frequency of certain words and phrases before and after a certain date. Ideally, I'd be able to do this in a slightly more complex way, with combinations of words and phrases. I want to do this for free. Does such a tool exist?
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posted by tavegyl
on Jan 28, 2013 -
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I'm learning a language (Hungarian) and I look up new words in a bunch of websites (2 dictionaries, Google images inside of Google Translate, Forvo.com). In general, I just copy and paste each word into the URLs, but there must be some way of clicking a button and searching all four websites at once. Is there?
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posted by sdis
on Jan 27, 2013 -
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How can I prevent video results from showing up in a Google search? For example, if I do a google search on "
picasa os x 10.6.8 screen resolution", half the links on the first results page are youtube videos. If I want videos I can select "videos" instead of "web". But I can't figure out how to prevent videos from showing up in a regular web search.
(I'm running Firefox on a MacBook Pro 10.6.8; I get the same results using Chrome.)
posted by Wet Spot
on Jan 22, 2013 -
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I work on a number of e-commerce websites. Of the ~6000 product reviews we have, a healthy percentage of them were manually scraped from other sites before my time. However, there is no indication and no log of which ones were scraped.
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 10, 2013 -
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I subscribe to a lot of feeds via Google Reader. Whenever I use the search function, I get incomplete results, even if I narrow the search to only starred items, for example. How can I get Reader to show all items that match my search? I use Windows and Firefox.
posted by slashee
on Jan 7, 2013 -
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I am looking for a copy of a 1938 pamphlet called "Gratitude" written by Dr. Harry L. James of Chicago. There was a copy
on Ebay, but it's sold now. Any chance I could find another copy (or PDF) of this thing?
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posted by mattbucher
on Jan 7, 2013 -
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I'm willing to work an internship for little or no pay. Should I mention this fact or would it come off as desperate and unprofessional?
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posted by WCF
on Jan 5, 2013 -
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This is kind of a search question. If you were going somewhere and wanted to know what interesting/fun events might be going on there how would you search for it? What sites would you use? What strategy would you take to figure out what was something significant vs something small and local? How would you assess the quality and what event categories do you think would be useful? If you could use some sort of data mining and could have the computer do some of the work what would you do in addition/ instead? For example, would you mine twitter feeds or facebook pages?
posted by blueyellow
on Jan 2, 2013 -
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In the State of Indiana, is it legal for the police to stop you from entering your house while they are waiting to obtain a search warrant? Can you point me to any statutes or literature that addresses this issue?
posted by Ggardner
on Dec 15, 2012 -
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in my mind i envision a website where you put your departing airport and the site pulls together current last-minutes deals to all sorts of destinations
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posted by allthingsconsidered
on Dec 9, 2012 -
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BookFilter: The sketchy detail kind. This is about a young adult novel, available by the early 80s, set among a family of artists or writers in, I think, New York City.
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posted by Miko
on Dec 6, 2012 -
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My boyfriend has lost his and his children's favorite version of "The Night Before Christmas". I'd love to find it for him. It featured line drawings, each of which had a cat somewhere on the page. They had fun looking for the cat in each illustration. It would have been published pre-2000. Any ideas?
posted by ridingtheranges
on Nov 26, 2012 -
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I'm currently working on an app that does search in a limited domain (travel). The current interface is via a dialog textbox, where the user enters sentences or phrases as queries. While natural language offers lots of flexibility I'm realizing this kind of interface is inherently problematic. First, parsing the natural language can be tricky as there are many possibilities. Second, and probably more important, it's a blind interface. We have various types of data and functionality on how to search and present it. It becomes a kind of guessing game whether the user can form a search query that will hit our data and search capabilities. Unless they happen to hit pay dirt it becomes frustrating for the user. At the same time it feels like the user isn't seeing the best of what we can do for them.
I'm sure I'm not the first to run into this. Do you have experience/ideas/research on how to improve/replace such an interface?
Thanks
posted by blueyellow
on Nov 17, 2012 -
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Does anyone know how to clear the search history for Twitter's iPhone app?
posted by JFunk2800
on Nov 14, 2012 -
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Help me figure out why I'm not getting any bites on jobs-- I get callbacks. I get interviews. But when it comes down to obtaining the job and subsequent paycheck itself, I'm failing.
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posted by camylanded
on Oct 31, 2012 -
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What are the best non-English or non-U.S. search engines? Google is the leader in the U.S., but Russian users prefer Yandex from what I understand, and Baidu is the top choice in China. What other search engines prevail in other countries or locales?
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posted by Nameless
on Oct 18, 2012 -
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Is there a book blurb search engine, or something that will let me see if someone has ever written a book blurb, and what it was? (Or some clever way of googling Amazon's Editorial Reviews sections)
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posted by sdis
on Oct 11, 2012 -
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I often check craigslist (Tokyo, where I live) to look for deals on various things I'd like to buy. I tire, though, of clicking through the different categories, sifting through all the silt to find a nugget worth asking about. Is there any way to automate searching through craigslist?
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posted by zardoz
on Oct 11, 2012 -
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How do I set up searchable outlook archive that I can access from anywhere?
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posted by jtajta
on Oct 10, 2012 -
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Please help me find a website I used last week that shows you public Facebook events for your city, broken down by date, and - rather uniquely for such websites - lists the confirmed attendees by their self-selected Facebook gender! When you clicked on an event, it would pull up a map, and a list of the attendees, and then give you the option to click through to the Facebook event page. It was such a great resource and it's killing me to not be able to find it anymore!
posted by texano
on Oct 5, 2012 -
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I'm looking for a quote by architect Jeanne Gang I read in an article about her last year, and my Google-fu is failing me. Help me, hivemind.
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posted by dw
on Sep 28, 2012 -
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How important is Google PageRank in relation to the updates in recent months with regard to Google Panda?
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posted by MrMerlot
on Sep 12, 2012 -
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How to search for a buyer's cancelled items on eBay? Reasons below.
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posted by Kiwi
on Sep 12, 2012 -
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What's the best way to organize and share web-based articles between a few dozen people? Right now we're using Lotus Notes and it is really bad.
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posted by erikvan
on Aug 14, 2012 -
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I am searching for a ballpoint pen - Papermate Pendulum. Can anyone help me find some?
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posted by dbirchum
on Aug 10, 2012 -
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How can I block certain sites from Google search results while preventing Google from tailoring search results just for me?
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posted by alligatorman
on Aug 9, 2012 -
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I just graduated from a unique/specific master's program and now I'm searching for jobs. Are there any places I'm leaving out of my search?
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posted by theuninvitedguest
on Jul 12, 2012 -
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What can a vocational / career counsellor do for me, and are they worth whatever they cost?
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posted by synecdoche
on Jul 2, 2012 -
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You may be familiar with Dj Tomcraft and his song Loneliness. I'm searching for those exact same lyrics, but closer together and the song has more... tempo?
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posted by one4themoment
on Jun 30, 2012 -
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