Wikipedia:WikiProject Technology/sources
Custom search engine: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=f35933ba261974a60
[edit]This tech-focused search engine is limited to 50 sites, of which you can also search in just the 'Top 20', 'Next 20', etc. to get more comprehensive results of those sources. A major goal is to show how much better search can be...
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Manual search options
[edit]Hoping to build a tool to combine search results from the CSE above and these search results below into one feed in the near future
| Site | RSP | WikiSignals | Add to search terms (for Google search) | CSE | TWL? | Discussions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNET (pre-October 2020) | 
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0.91 | site:cnet.com before:2020-10-01 | N | ||
| ZDNET (pre-October 2020) | FOSS
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0.89 | site:zdnet.com before:2020-10-01 | N | ||
| BGR (pre-October 2025?) | 0.88 | site:bgr.com before:2025-10-01 | N | |||
| How-To Geek (pre-July 2023) | 0.98 | site:howtogeek.com before:2023-07-01 | N | WP:VALNET | ||
| Tech In Asia (pre-Jan. 2024) | unrated | site:techinasia.com before:2024-01-01 | N |
Under consideration
[edit]| Site | RSP | WikiSignals | Notes | CSE | TWL? | Discussions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality concerns | ||||||
| Contxto | Too niche, little editorial oversight? | N | ||||
| TechRepublic | unrated | N | ||||
| Too difficult to focus Google search | ||||||
| Association for Computing Machinery | Sggst | Journals | Next 10 | Y | ||
| Association for Computing Machinery | Sggst | Magazines | Next 10 | Y | ||
| Too niche/too little content? | ||||||
| EU-startups.com | unrated | N | ||||
| DealStreetAsia.com | Too niche? | N | ||||
| Krebsonsecurity | unrated | Posts weekly...may not be enough | N | |||
| Too Broad? | ||||||
| Al-Monitor | 0.88 | Not enough tech focus | N | |||
| Buzzfeed News |
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Until 2023. Archives online. | N | WP:BUZZFEEDNEWS | ||
| Bloomberg News |
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Not enough tech focus | N | WP:BLOOMBERG | ||
| Coda Media |
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Not enough tech focus | N | WP:CODA | ||
| The Intercept |
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Not enough tech focus | N | |||
| New York Times |
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Not enough tech focus | N | WP:NYT | ||
| Wall Street Journal |
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Not enough tech focus | N | Y | WP:WSJ | |
| IEEE | 0.98 | Too broad? Would replace Spectrum? | N | Y | ||
| Quartz | No way to filter by tech - not tech-focused enough | |||||
| Quanta Magazine | 0.98 | Too broad? | N | |||
| Scientific American | 0.89 | Too broad? | N | Y | ||
Excluded sites
[edit]Marginally reliable
[edit]| Name | RSP | WikiSignals | Notes | CSE | Discussions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TechCrunch | 
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WP:TECHCRUNCH | |||
| CNET (Oct. 2020 – Oct. 2022) |
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| Business Insider |
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WP:BUSINESSINSIDER | |||
| The Next Web |
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0.80 | |||
| VentureBeat |
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0.55 | WP:VENTUREBEAT | ||
| Popular Mechanics |
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| Entrepreneur |
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| Boing Boing |
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| Vice Media |
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WP:VICE |
Generally unreliable
[edit]| Name | RSP | WikiSignals | Notes | CSE | Discussions |
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| ZDNET (Oct. 2020-present) | 
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| CNET (Oct. 2022-present) |
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| YouTube |
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WP:RSPYT | |||
| X |
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WP:RSPX | |||
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WP:RSREDDIT | ||||
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