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Google puts search bar on Windows

Google has officially released its desktop search app for Windows, bringing a Spotlight-style search experience to PCs. The app lets users quickly open a search bar with a keyboard shortcut and look up information without switching between windows. It pulls results from multiple places at once, including the web, local files, installed apps, and Google Drive. The interface also includes different modes like image search and an AI-powered view for more detailed answers. There are a few extra features built in as well, like Google Lens for searching parts of your screen and tools that let you ask questions about what you’re currently viewing. The app is available globally in English for Windows 10 and newer devices. Google hasn’t said if similar apps will come to macOS or Linux, though it’s reportedly experimenting with other desktop AI tools. Observation: kind of funny watching google quietly move onto the windows desktop itself instead of just living inside the browser like it used to

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How to find the gods (in text)

Someone commented on one of my recent posts wondering what texts a certain figure comes up in. It's actually not terribly difficult to figure that out if you know what search tools are available, and don't mind that the interfaces might not be in English.

This is actually a lot easier with Old Icelandic words that aren't names, because the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose isn't good for looking for proper nouns. If you were looking for friðr or megin or something, that would be a much more useful tool than it is for gods' names.

Eventually there will be two big searchable corpora, one for prose and one for poetry, but those are both in progress and it will be some time before they're done.

On request of @hildshall I'll be showing you how to find every reference to Heimdallr in Norse literature, to the best of my ability and the ability of the tools we have available. I won't cover runic inscriptions because learning to use Rundata properly is a whole other beast, though most people should be able to figure out the simplified interface of Runor (and find the Saltfleetby Spindle Whorl). I'm also only doing this for the name "Heimdallr," not his other names Gullintanni, Hallinskiði and Vind(h)lér. These names come from Gylfaginning and Skáldskaparmál, and if you want to be sure you caught everything you have to repeat the process with those.

Super long post in two parts. [Part 2]

You should always start by checking Snorri's Edda. Yeah, yeah, don't trust Snorri, we all know, but like it or not what he wrote is a moderately well-functioning piece of reference material, so if you want to know how poets referred to Heimdallr, don't not look there to get those bynames and kennings. The best English translation of Snorri's Edda is a free download at http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/ (make sure you're downloading the translation, the one that says "Tr. Anthony Faulkes", and not the edition in Old Norse).

In most situations I start with the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose. It isn't just a list of words and their definitions, it's a list of words and where they appear in Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian texts, with the text itself. Like I said, it isn't well-equipped for proper nouns, but if you were searching a common noun or any other part of speech it would be quite up to the task. That's why I'm gonna put it up front here.

It's got more advanced search tools too but we don't need any of them for this. "Heimdalsvatn" ('Heimdall's lake') is interesting there but no time for that now.

Here's the entry for heimdallr. It doesn't have much, just a reference to him from Snorri's Edda and a reference to that aforementioned "Heimdall's lake."

If you click on the first entry it brings you here and shows you a whole bunch of stuff, but you need to know what you're looking at. If you can read Old Norse you can get the context from reading the actual text it appears in, but if you don't now you know you can find it in Snorri's Edda (which you knew already anyway, but if it had thrown some saga you didn't know existed at you, now you'd know to look for that too).

This is the site I work with the most. When someone asks me something like "what exactly does vitki mean?" I go here first, because it isn't just a definition, it's actually the complete usage of the word in its context. Yeah, it's not great for the present task, but if you do know what it's good at (common nouns, verbs, etc in prose works) it's a very powerful tool.

We'll come back to something to get prose texts at the end but for now let's focus on poetry. Until the new electronic Lexicon Poeticum is complete, we still have the old version. It can be found at http://www.septentrionalia.net/etexts/ and either downloaded or you can use the web interface at http://www.septentrionalia.net/lex/index.php?book=e&page=-15&ext=png.

Then we find:

It's just a big PNG, not machine-readable at all, and barely human-readable. What little commentary there is here is in Danish. I'll break it down for you.

Heimdallr, m, Heimdall (about the individual forms in the genitive. -dalls, -dallar, -dalar, -dala see Det norsk-isl skjaldesprog 16-17), watchman of the gods, owner of Gjallarhorn.

It then goes on to list the poems where Heimdallr appears, sometimes with a little note to hint at the context. You're gonna need these pages in the front of the book to figure out what the abbreviations (forkortelser) mean:

Þulur IV

Lokasenna 48 (note: Heimdallr speaks in 47, but the word "Heimdallr" doesn't appear until Loki talks back, so 48 is listed)

Þrymskviða 15

Grímnismál 13

Vǫluspá 1

Vǫluspá 46

Vǫluspá 27 (not sure why it's listed out of order)

Bjarni ...ason (his patronymic is not known) 1

Grettir Ásmundarson 2:7

Háttatal 7 (this one uses the name Vind(h)lér, not sure why Finnur didn't put it separately)

Húsdrápa 10

A couple notes here. The dictionary was put together by Finnur Jónsson, who also did a big edition of skaldic poetry, the Skjaldedigtning, and these references are made using the same classification system he used for that. The one says "Grett 2, 7" means the poem is by Grettir Ásmundarson, and is the seventh verse of the second grouping of verses in Skjaldedigtning. The same site that hosts the Lexicon Poeticum has scans of that. But if you're looking for an English translation of that poem, you won't find it there, and you'll have to find another way to track it down. That brings us to our next resource.

LexiconPoeticum.org is still in progress but will eventually replace the old paper Lexicon that I just walked you through. The reason it's taking so long is that they're doing some pretty incredible in-depth analysis of every word, every kenning, lots of other little details, not to mention huge amounts of commentary and explanation. You can use it already, you just can't trust that it's going to show you everything, and it does reserve some functionality for people who are actually part of the project. If you search "Heimdallr" it'll give you three of the results that Finnur listed, Húsdrápa, Bjarni someonesson, and the nafnaþulur (2) (lists of names; there's two for gods so naturally Heimdallr is in them).

Those link to the sister site, the Skaldic Poetry Project, the other interface for basically the same project. But we're still missing stuff. Vǫluspá, Grímnismál, Þrymskviða, and Lokasenna you should all be able to handle on your own, and they're not skaldic poetry anyway, so the site isn't going to help you with that. Háttatal, if you didn't know, is part of Snorri's Edda (the Prose Edda) so you should be good on that too, or if not go find it at http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/

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LetsTG से 2026 में Telegram Groups कैसे खोजें? 💡 1 लाख+ Communities का Complete Directory

April 09, 2026

Telegram पर 70 करोड़+ मासिक सक्रिय यूज़र्स हैं — फिर भी सही Telegram Group खोजना आज भी एक बड़ी चुनौती बना हुआ है। Telegram का खुद का search तभी काम करता है जब आपको exact group name पता हो। एक गलत अक्षर और आपको कुछ नहीं मिला।

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🌐 LetsTG पर हिंदी Groups कैसे खोजें?

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LetsTG पर जाएं

Language filter में हिंदी select करें

अपना topic या keyword type करें

जो भी results मिलें, उनमें से choose करें

इससे आपको English नहीं, बल्कि सीधे हिंदी में groups दिखेंगे — discussion, updates और content सब कुछ हिंदी में। 🇮🇳

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@letstgbot को Telegram पर open करें

अपने group से कोई भी message forward करें bot को

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अब आपका group keyword, category और language से searchable हो जाएगा

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Last updated: April 2026 | Data reflects publicly listed Telegram groups and channels indexed on LetsTG.

[wisdomfish]

With thine whole heart seek Christ Jesus, and he will be found of thee: only give thyself thoroughly up to the search, and verily, thou shalt yet discover him to thy joy and gladness.

Charles H. Spurgeon

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“Google removed the search tools that allow you to browse image results within a specific customized time frame, but you can still look at images at a range from 2011 to 2014 by typing this overly complicated set of code syntax into the-”

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RB Search Gizmos: Make Location-Based Twitter Search Easy With Pam's Pin

RB Search Gizmos: Make Location-Based Twitter Search Easy With Pam’s Pin

I have finally gotten far enough along with my JavaScript lessons that I could make a tool to address a frequent search annoyance: Twitter’s location-based search. Did you know you could do a Twitter search by location? You might not know about it because as a search feature it’s unwieldy; you have to enter a lat/long pair to specify a specific address you want to search. Few people wander around…

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