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Hello!
Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.
Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:
Pinpoint, Google's research tool, now free for everyone
LinkedIn now offers eight daily quick games
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, online
⏭️ In brief
💡Recommended by: Jordi Canyissà
Pinpoint, Google's research tool, now free for everyone
Google has recently opened its Pinpoint tool to all users at no cost. The tool allows you to analyze thousands of documents and unstructured information with the help of artificial intelligence.
This "data mining" tool was previously available only to journalists and news organizations. Now anyone can use it to drastically cut research time.
Google describes Pinpoint as a "private, souped-up Google Search" exclusively for your own files.
How Pinpoint works:
You create a "Collection" — a project folder where you can upload up to 200,000 documents at once, including PDFs, images, audio files, websites, Word documents, and more.
Pinpoint automatically scans everything (OCR + AI): Google processes all uploaded content, including handwritten text and audio files (which are transcribed in multiple languages).
Entity extraction: The system analyzes the collection and automatically builds a sidebar index of the people, organizations, and locations mentioned in the files.
Smart search: You can search for a specific term and Pinpoint will show you which pages it appears on, including synonyms and grammatical variations. You can also query the tool directly to get answers drawn from your uploaded documents.
Who can benefit from Pinpoint?
Google sees it as useful for creators, academics, and professionals. For example:
Journalists and content creators: Transcribe hours of recorded audio interviews in minutes and search for exact quotes using keywords.
Researchers and students: Upload hundreds of academic papers, dissertations, or historical PDFs to cross-reference data and identify recurring authors or organizations.
Competitive and market analysis: Upload corporate financial reports, legal regulations, or other PDFs to quickly extract insights without reading thousands of pages.
Archive digitization: Scan old handwritten notes or printed letters to create a fully indexed, searchable digital archive.
Links:
In his Wonder Tools newsletter, Jeremy Caplan recently reviewed the tool in depth and compared it with Google's NotebookLM: Pinpoint, Explained. A guide to Google's free tool, now open to all
LinkedIn now offers eight daily quick games
Games have become a key part of the content strategy for many media outlets in recent years, thanks to their strong ability to drive audience engagement. One of the most successful examples is The New York Times, with its Wordle game — which we've covered before in On the Net Today.
But it's not just media companies getting in on the action. The professional social network LinkedIn launched its own mini-games two years ago, aiming to offer users "quick, interactive moments of focus throughout the workday." LinkedIn encourages players to share their results with their networks.
This week, LinkedIn added an eighth game — a new word game called Wend. The current lineup is:
Wend
Patches
Mini Sudoku
Zip
Tango
Queens
Pinpoint
Crossclimb
According to LinkedIn, "since launching LinkedIn games, members around the world have embraced these puzzles as a way to take a short break, challenge their thinking, and connect with their networks." Billions of puzzles have been played since launch. 86% of players return the next day, and 82% keep playing after seven days. Each game allows one round per day.
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup, online
Yesterday, Thursday, the first two matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup were played — hosted across the United States, Mexico, and Canada — with victories for Mexico and South Korea. Over the coming weeks, leading up to the final on July 19, 2026, millions of fans around the world will be following the planet's most-watched sporting event.
There are many digital platforms and media outlets where you can follow or stay informed about the World Cup online. Here are some of the options available:
The official FIFA website, where you can watch video highlights of all matches.
The Athletic, the sports outlet from The New York Times, is offering all its World Cup coverage free in its app.
The 2026 World Cup special on YouTube
⏭️ In Brief
And finally: watch the incredible light-and-drone show that took place this past Wednesday at Barcelona's Sagrada Família during Pope Leo XIV's visit. The newly installed Tower of Jesus was lit up for the first time, in tribute to the visionary architect Antoni Gaudí on the centenary of his death. The basilica is now the world's tallest church at 172.5 meters. Nearly 10 unforgettable minutes that have already made history.
💡 Recommended by: Jordi Canyissà
Name: Jordi Canyissà
Role: Chief Operating Officer at La Vanguardia
Link: LinkedIn
Recommended resource: Hard Fork (The New York Times, Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
Why?
Hard Fork is a weekly podcast produced by The New York Times and hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, two of the most respected tech journalists around. Roose covers technology and artificial intelligence for the Times; Newton is the founder of the Platformer newsletter. The podcast's name is a nod to what the software world calls a chain break — a hard fork. And that's precisely what they set out to do: analyze a moment like this one, where technology is constantly changing the rules of the game. The show covers a lot of current tech news, but also digital culture, social media, and of course AI. I enjoy listening to it because it doesn't just run through headlines — it takes a broader approach: changes are analyzed, trends are anticipated, and it's all delivered with journalistic rigor, a real rapport with the listener, and the sound judgment of people who genuinely know what they're talking about. A quality weekly analysis — solid, direct, and no-nonsense. And entertaining, too.
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That's all for today. See you in a week!
