A new feature has arrived on Know Portland: the Search Portland tool!
Search Portland is a simple search generator that lets you quickly search across Portland-area publications.
WHY With the decline of search tools, it’s become more challenging for me to search for information about Portland. For example, I wanted to read about some articles written a few months after Measure 110 was passed, but I had trouble crafting the right google/duckduckgo search to find those articles.
AIM This tool aims to solve that problem: limit the scope of the search to local publications, which write about Portland, so that the other, irrelevant results are immediately filtered out.
HOW The tool has a list of Portland-area URLs. Users select the URLs they’d like to search and type in their search term. The tool generates a link to google with the search query embedded, which users can click on to see the results.