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<item><title>How to compare Facebook engagement between pages (7 London museums, 56 posts)</title><link>https://simple-actor.github.io/compare-facebook-engagement-between-pages-london-museums/</link><guid>https://simple-actor.github.io/compare-facebook-engagement-between-pages-london-museums/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The latest 8 Facebook posts of 7 London museums. The National Gallery's typical post drew 1,331 reactions, comments and shares; the Science Museum's drew 15. Under 10 cents.</description></item>
<item><title>How much more do Edinburgh hotels cost on New Year's Eve? (Booking.com prices for the same hotels, two weeks apart)</title><link>https://simple-actor.github.io/edinburgh-hotel-prices-new-years-eve-booking-com/</link><guid>https://simple-actor.github.io/edinburgh-hotel-prices-new-years-eve-booking-com/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Edinburgh on Booking.com, one night for two. On New Year's Eve 140 places were left and the same 32 hotels cost a median 5.2 times what they cost on 14 January.</description></item>
<item><title>How to find a business's website, email and Instagram from just its name (8 New York bagel shops)</title><link>https://simple-actor.github.io/find-business-website-email-instagram-from-name-new-york-bagels/</link><guid>https://simple-actor.github.io/find-business-website-email-instagram-from-name-new-york-bagels/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Eight bagel shop names in, eight rows out. Google rated all 8, the websites gave 3 emails, 4 Instagram accounts came back with follower counts. 5 minutes 51 seconds, 15.9 cents.</description></item>
<item><title>How to tell how busy a restaurant is from OpenTable (50 steak restaurants in Chicago, ranked)</title><link>https://simple-actor.github.io/how-busy-is-a-restaurant-opentable-chicago-steak/</link><guid>https://simple-actor.github.io/how-busy-is-a-restaurant-opentable-chicago-steak/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>OpenTable's &quot;steak&quot; search in Chicago, ranked by its own &quot;Booked N times today&quot;: the busiest of 50 was Italian, at 269, and listed 28th. One search, 69 seconds, 2.75 cents.</description></item>
<item><title>How to find Creative Commons photos big enough to print (26 of Lisbon's Tram 28)</title><link>https://simple-actor.github.io/creative-commons-photos-big-enough-to-print-lisbon-tram-28/</link><guid>https://simple-actor.github.io/creative-commons-photos-big-enough-to-print-lisbon-tram-28/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>300 Google Images results for Lisbon's Tram 28 held 9 photos 3,000 px wide. Two filters found 26 with a Creative Commons label, for 1.7 cents. What came back wrong.</description></item>
<item><title>How to find the email address for a list of company websites (36 accountants in Manchester)</title><link>https://simple-actor.github.io/find-email-address-list-of-websites-manchester-accountants/</link><guid>https://simple-actor.github.io/find-email-address-list-of-websites-manchester-accountants/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>36 Manchester accountancy firms' websites. The home page alone gave an email for 27, five pages per site gave 32, for 12 cents. What the extra pages are worth, and what they cost.</description></item>
<item><title>How to get past the Google Maps results limit (153 coffee shops in Austin became 471)</title><link>https://simple-actor.github.io/google-maps-results-limit-austin-coffee-shops/</link><guid>https://simple-actor.github.io/google-maps-results-limit-austin-coffee-shops/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>One Google Maps search for coffee shops in Austin stops at 153 places. Six neighbourhood searches found 471 distinct ones, for 42 cents. The code, the overlap, and what it costs.</description></item>
<item><title>How to get the email of every dentist in Miami from Google Maps</title><link>https://simple-actor.github.io/email-every-dentist-miami-google-maps/</link><guid>https://simple-actor.github.io/email-every-dentist-miami-google-maps/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Google Maps lists 182 dentists for one Miami search and shows an email for none of them. One run found 81 addresses in five minutes for 31 cents. The code, the output, and where it falls short.</description></item>
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