Google’s UK MD gives evidence to MPs: “Google is not a parasite”.
Matt Brittin, Google’s UK MD, gave evidence this week to the UK government inquiry into the future of local media and denied accusations that Google is a “parasite” on traditional newspapers. The...
View ArticleBritish Library Announces UK Web Archive
The British Library recently announced the launch of the UK Web Archive, which will store and make accessible every site in the .uk top-level domain. The project will deploy an impressive array of...
View ArticleUpdate on Alternative Search Engines
Paula Hane updates on “evolved search engine” LeapFish and semantic search engine hakia, and provides links to useful recent coverage from Information Today and other resources. The post Update on...
View ArticleGoogle’s New Search Engine Results Page Examined
Google has rolled out a major set of changes to its search engine results pages. Left-hand navigational search facets are now turned on by default. Greg Notess examines the changes in detail in today’s...
View ArticleGoogle and Yahoo announce 2010 top search terms
Yahoo’s Year in Review reveals that the top 2010 search was for the BP oil spill. This is the only news event in the top ten, with the other places being taken by a mixture of media and pop icons...
View Article‘The promise – and peril – of personalisation’
One day, Eli Pariser (an online organiser) logged onto Facebook to find out what people with less liberal opinions than his own were talking about. He couldn’t find them. Based on his past search and...
View ArticleMulti-lingual searching
Are you searching in more than one language? According to Greenlight’s Search and Social Media Survey more than three-quarters of online searchers are using more than one language. Spain, Italy and...
View ArticleTeens don’t tweet – so what do they do?
Three years ago, the 15-year old Matthew Robson joined Morgan Stanley in London to gain some work experience. While there, he wrote a much publicised, (anecdotal) report on how teenagers were using...
View ArticleDealing with mission impossible – a publishing case study
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) disseminates scientific information in the interdisciplinary fields of geophysics. With over 60,000 members worldwide, the AGU publishes books, research journals,...
View ArticleMobile search: creating moments that matter
The majority of people who use mobile search to find information on consumer items and services have every intention of making a purchase. In a study (by Nielsen and Google) researchers found that...
View ArticleTools for competitive intelligence
Miniera, the Spanish consulting company, has surveyed 149 competitive intelligence (CI) practitioners in Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean to discover what software tools they use...
View ArticleGrumpy Cat and twerking – popular search terms of 2013
Winners this year include Prince George (the new royal baby), the iPhone 5 and twerking. US searches The US top ten of Yahoo search terms is the usual reassuring mix of celebrities (Miley Cyrus,...
View ArticleThe second digital revolution
New information seeking behaviours mean libraries and publishers have to change. People are increasingly creating and consuming information on the move. This, combined with the growth of cloud-based...
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