Search and SEO
Search and SEO
Bing Chat
AI-powered search. Create images in chat, with the new Bing’s Image Creator. Search, chat and create, all in one place.
Connexun
Known as the “The Ultimate AI News Engine,” the site uses artificial intelligence to turn unstructured news content into actionable data. Source real-time multilingual headlines, articles, and dynamic summaries from thousands of open web sources. Leverage intelligent algorithms and news-centric features such as news topic ranking, extraction-based summarization, and more to filter news for different types of users. Track news in real time across 20,000 highly trusted sources across the globe and pick the most important stories first. Access automatically aggregated news from news API. Access extractive short summaries of news in various languages.Monthly plans start at $10 with a free trial.
Perplexity.ai
GPT-like search queries off prompts. Lists citations at the top that you can use to fact-check. Be careful as some are from Wikipedia.
Consensus
AI search engine for research, with a focus on science
Rolli
Quickly discover and book leading experts for your news stories with this AI-powered newsgathering platform built by journalists, for journalists. Find experts, scan the news cycle 10X faster, access a preloaded news planning calendar, even get social engagement scores for your published content.
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GPTGo
Free ChatGPT and search engine
Contact Out
Find anyone’s email or phone number.
Hunter.io
Type in a web address and get a list of email addresses of people within that domain.
Spokeo
This is a pay-for-use and subscription people-finder tool. Your school or library may have access. Search by name, phone, address, or email to confidentially lookup information about people. Contact information, personal details, location history, family and associates, social media accounts.
FamilyTreeNow
Search by name to find addresses, phones (including cell phones), businesses, and relatives.
Nuwber
Search by name, phone, address. Then check the box and click on “I agree,” and then click on the person who matches by address and age.
That’sThem.com
People search engine, find addresses, phones, emails
Whoxy
Free domain search by company, name, etc.
GIJN: Top 10 Investigative Tools of 2023
Excellent list of research tools
Xlek.com – Free Public Data Search
Free public data searches, including voter registration, etc.
LinkedIn Advanced Search
Find profiles of people with various expertise|
RocketReach
You get five free lookups a month. Sign up with gmail, then add the Chrome extension. Search directly or use with LinkedIn.
Hunter.io
Free plan allows for 25 website searches per month. Good for email searches.
FinalScout
Use it to locate email addresses
Lexica
This Stable Diffusion search engine uses that uses text as prompts
Neeva
AI-powered search tool
Perplexity
AI search tool to advance the way people discover and share information. Available as a phone app, too
Research Rabbit Discovery App
Unlocks a completely novel way to search for papers and authors, monitor new literature, visualize research landscapes, and collaborate with colleagues.
SciSpace Copilot
Chrome plugin that helps you understand scientific literature.
Phind
The AI search engine for developers. Search for prompts
Findtweets
Use natural language to create advanced Twitter search queries.
VisualPing.io
Uses AI to track updates to web pages you want monitored.
Engyne.ai
AI-driven SEO tool. Pricing starts at $100 a month.
GPTGo
Free ChatGPT and search engine
KeywordSearch
Find YouTube audiences faster with AI keyword research
AI-Search.io
More than 5,000 AI tools in a searchable database
Hebbia
Paid AI search tool. You can request a free demo.
Keytalk Deep Search
Recommendation AI that gathers insight from people-powered data and processes them into a practical decision-support system for each industry. Tailor it to work for movies, music, politics, etc.
IntelTechniques Search Tool
Resources for backgrounding people, all housed in one place.
SurferSEO.com
The tool promises to “will give you a SEO workflow to boost your organic traffic, increase your visibility, and improve your rank. Seven-day trial with paid accounts starting at $69 a month.
Lexica
Search for AI images
YourSearch.ai
Use the search engine as a WebApp or via Messenger and get your perfect answer without any advertising.
Passionfroot
Helps you discover and book top creators
Arc
An AI-powered browser that keeps you organized.
Online Research Guide
Internet search expert Henk van Ess offers tips to investigate people and subjects on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Telegram, and more.
Elicit
AI research assistant
Dashthis
Analytics dashboard
Browse AI
Train a robot in two minutes to extract and monitor data from any website
FlowGPT
Searchable database: How to find and use the best prompts
GPTGo
Combines ChatGPT with Google search
CopyMonkey
AI-powered optimization tool
RivalFlow AI
Improve your existing content’s SEO using cutting-edge AI technology
JECT.AI
JECT.AI pulls from millions of published news articles and publications to give you recommendations for news angles and voices. It uses artificial intelligence to help editors, freelance journalists and others find emerging trends, potential news stories, and access new research and resources. Be careful using this tool and vet what you find.
TopApps.Ai
Find the top web apps powered by AI
GIJN: Five Search Tools to Make Journalists’ Lives Easier
CUNY: Tools for Finding/Tracking People
Supertools (therundown.ai)
A database full of useful AI tools
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar is an AI-based search and discovery tool for research resources. It contains more than 200 million scholarly articles that come from partnerships with publishers, data providers and web crawls.
AP Newsroom
Has an AI option for photo and video search
FutureTools
A treasure chest of AI tools
GPTGO.ai
AI search engines.
AlteroAI
Accesses detailed business research on companies
Content Suite by Senuto
Generate web traffic with just a few clicks
SEO TOOLS
SEOdity
SEO tools and analysis.
YeSEO
Goal of this app is to help newsrooms with SEO best practices.
AISEO
SEO/writing tool for marketers with many SEO features. Monthly plans start at $39.
YeSEO
Goal of this app is to help newsrooms with SEO best practices.
Seona AI
An AI SEO assistant that can update your site and boost its discoverability automatically.
Surfer SEO
SEO enhancement tool
Headline Hero
Plug in the story copy and settings (length, keywords to include) and it will write an SEO-friendly headline for you.
RankWizard
SEO expertise for writing articles, blog posts and newsletters
Namy.ai
Describe your business as you would to a customer or in an advertisement and it generates some URLs for you to consider.
AI Writer
I wouldn’t use this as a writing tool but it’s good at suggesting SEO headlines, etc.
Zentask.ai
Create articles, images and manage SEO in this all-in-one tool.
Koala
Write long-form, SEO-friendly blog articles in a single click
PepperType
Retails for around $400 a month. Marketing content platform with strong SEO tools, the latter of which could be helpful to journalists.
MarkCopy
Tool for writing branded SEO content. Free trail with monthly plans starting around $50.
Copy Smith
Mostly for marketing copy but has some good SEO features. Plans start at $228 per year.
Ellie Email Assistant
A simple email writing assistant starting at $16.
SearchEngineLand: What is SEO?
Video explains what search engine optimization is and how it works.
ChatGPT SEO Plugin
Send a URL and keyword and get an SEO analysis in a few seconds
Bramework Plugin
Find keywords and do SEO analysis
SEO CORE AI
Use AI to analyze and improve the SEO
Website Performance
Measure key metrics about your website, performance, accessibility, best practices
SEO Assistant
Create a list of keywords to make it easy for Google to rank your content.
OTHER SEARCH RESOURCES
GIJN: Five Online Search Tools to Make Journalists’ Lives Easier
GIJN Toolbox: Searching Social Media
Daniel Russell’s Google Search Site
Sarah Marshall: Google Search Tips for Journalists
Facebook Search Tool: People Findthor
Search by employment past/present, relationship status, etc.
GroundSignal.com
Location-based search.
WhoPostedWhat.com
A non-public Facebook keyword search
Photo Find App
Navigate to the exact place a photo was taken.
Stacksearch
Substack newsletter search
Datahub.io
Building Biases into Google Searches
An excellent summary of Henk Van Ess’s July 2022 Google search training. Many great tips for narrowing searches.
Expertise Finder: Google Search Tips for Journalists
Google Labs
Check out Google technologies in development.
Library of Congress: Newspaper Navigator: Photos
Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos
Google Hot Trends
Track what people are searching for on the web.
Who Posted What
Non-public Facebook keyword search.
Copyscape
Track who has lifted content off your website. Just type in the URL of your site.
Usersearch.org
Look up people by username, etc.
AnyClip.com
Find movie clips
ChatGPT for Google
Browser extension that allows ChatGPT to work alongside Google.
Google Scholar
Search academic journals, articles, case law, etc
isleuth.com
More than 2,000 searchable databases.
Infoplease.com Almanac Search Page
Pandia Search Engine for News Sites
FindArticles.com
A free online article search.
NewsNow
A British site with many U.S. resources. Updates every five minutes.
Search Moreover.com News Feeds
Searches many news feeds.
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