Tools and tips round up: The decline of Google Search, investigating munitions, and more

Plus: How to build your own database, find Amazon Wishlists, investigate Telegram, and automate gathering info from company websites.

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Professional searchers and investigators often complain about the quality of Google Search results.

The low quality content, the truncated results, the emphasis on guessing what a user wants and highlighting one answer, rather than inviting complex queries… Yes, power searchers have lots of complaints. But we don’t seem to be alone.

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