Bing – don’t bother!
Bing.com has launched and I just cannot believe that Microsoft have made so much fuss over something that is no better than the existing Live.com. The UK version is labelled as beta and the US one as...
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Hashtag: #meetbing Twelve bloggers, including myself and Phil Bradley, were invited to the round table meeting with Microsoft Bing in London on the evening of June 29th. The aim of the event, according...
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Searching for file types made easy
One of the Top 10 Tips that participants of my advanced search workshops regularly come up with is using file format options to focus your search. If you are looking for an expert on a topic, a...
View ArticleInternet Search: a challenging and ever changing landscape
CILIP in the Thames Valley evening meeting Date & Time: Tuesday 6th October 2009, 1800 for 1830 hrs Location: Great Expectations, 33 London St, Reading Google threatens to go hyper with its...
View ArticlePresentation: Internet Search – a challenging and ever changing landscape
CILIP in the Thames Valley, 6th October 2009, Great Expectations, Reading The presentation I gave to CILIP in the Thames Valley on 6th October is now available in a number of locations. At least one of...
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Twitter search in Bing and Google
Bing and Google have both announced that they have done a deal with Twitter that enables them to offer ‘real time’ Twitter searches. The Bing service is live now at http://www.bing.com/Twitter/....
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Bing integrates Wolfram Alpha and out of beta in UK – allegedly
Hitting my RSS feeds this morning was the announcement from Bing that their UK version is out of beta. “So what,” I thought. “Doesn’t look any different to me this morning”. But looking at the...
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Google Images rolls out (very slowly) Bing-like results
Google has rolled out Bing style results for its image search. If you have never used Bing Image search take a look now. Several people in my latest search workshop loved it so much that they included...
View ArticleBing becomes more like Google and personalises
So you thought you could escape filtering and personalisation of search results by fleeing Google and running into the arms of Bing? Afraid not. Bing has announced that it is rolling out a new...
View ArticlePresentation: Search Turns Social – Resistance is Futile
The presentation I gave to CILIP in Hants & Wight yesterday (Search Turns Social – Resistance is Futile) is now available on authorSTREAM at...
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Million Short: unearthing stuff hidden in the dungeons of Google’s results
Fed up with seeing the same results from Google again and again? Wondering if that elusive document is buried somewhere at the bottom of Google’s 2,000,000 hits? Then get thee hence to Million Short...
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Bing adds Creative Commons search to images
Bing has added public domain and Creative Commons options to its image search but only if it thinks you are in the US. This is a feature that Google has long offered as part of its image advanced...
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Compare Google and Bing results with Bingiton
Just over a year ago Bing launched a website called Bingiton (http://www.bingiton.com/), which enabled you to compare search results from Google and Bing side by side and then decide which set was...
View ArticleIs Bing dropping search terms?
Google has been automatically dropping terms from searches that give few or no results for some time. It now looks as though Bing may be doing the same. Unfortunately I cannot give the details of the...
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Bing extends date search option
Bing has at last extended its date search options. Until recently one could only limit results to the past 24 hours, past week or the past month, and then only in Bing US. Bing has now added a custom...
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Searching for the height of Ben Nevis – how hard can it be?
If you have attended one of my recent search workshops, or glanced through the slides, you will have noticed that I have a new test query: the height of Ben Nevis. It didn’t start out as a test search...
View ArticleDon’t expect advanced search features to exist forever
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the problems I was having with Google Verbatim (Google Verbatim on the way out?). This morning I ran through a checklist of commands that I am demonstrating in a...
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