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Comment on Internet Librarian International - deadline for speakers extended by Tyrone

Tyrone — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:50:17 +0000

70% of the search market sorry my error there

Comment on Internet Librarian International - deadline for speakers extended by Tyrone

Tyrone — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:49:45 +0000

i am a big fan of live, but i have seen myself being pulled towards google as ive started to go into web designing. Live has the right idea at the moment and i can see it becoming a big player in the future but google still holds nearly 770% of the UK market and thats who most sites have to optimize for.

Comment on Live.com updates news interface - but only for the US by Karen Blakeman’s Blog » Blog Archive » New look for Live.com: two steps forward, 3 steps back

Sun, 11 May 2008 09:32:04 +0000

[...] Live.com updates news interface - but only for the US [...]

Comment on Gordon Brown is Twittering by Marydee

Marydee — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:13:35 +0000

That is hilarious!

Comment on Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers by Karen Blakeman’s Blog » Blog Archive » Top Business Research Tips (2)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:45:48 +0000

[...] 8. Chipwrapper http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk/ a Custom Google Search Engine that searches across the UK’s major national newspapers: The Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The People, News of the World, The Scotsman, Daily Star, The Telegraph and The Times. It also searches the BBC News web site, ITN and Sky. There is a review of Chipwrapper on my blog at http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2007/12/29/chipwrapper-search-uk-newspapers/ [...]

Comment on Top Business Research Tips by Karen Blakeman’s Top Business Research Tips « Libtech in LibrarianLand

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:50:27 +0000

[...] Friday, April 4, 2008 in business, news, profession, resources, search, sectors, web 2.0, working it Top Business Research Tips [...]

Comment on TripleMe.com by Karen Blakeman

Karen Blakeman — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:52:08 +0000

Hmm…just gone back into TripleMe and the forced ‘email a friend’ that Phil Bradley mentioned in his blog is back. It will not display your results unless you email someone about it. Get rid of it! This is guaranteed to seriously piss people off. I was going to include TripleMe in my Advanced Search Strategies workshop this week but have now removed it.

Comment on TripleMe.com by sorand

sorand — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:40:50 +0000

Hi,

We improved my functions in TripleMe search engine.

Also, we build a blog http://triplemecom.blogspot.com/

will be happy to received commenst or suggestions to make the TripleMe as the best metasearch engine.

Andrew,
TripleMe developer.

Comment on The INSOURCE Conference Twitter Experiment by Karen Blakeman

Karen Blakeman — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:55:28 +0000

Hi Patrick,

That is excellent. I am going to test Loudtwitter over the next couple of days. Many thanks for the tip.

Karen

Comment on The INSOURCE Conference Twitter Experiment by PatrickD

PatrickD — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:47:16 +0000

Hi Karen,

realy cool that you tried it yourself, too I Found an very interesting Tool which make conference Twittering more effective: http://www.loudtwitter.com/
Loudtwitter is able to post all what you have twittert one day in a blog post. Tis makes it more easy to store the feed for later use.

Hope we will meet soon

Patrick

Comment on The INSOURCE Conference Twitter Experiment by More on INSOURCE Tweets | Online Insider

More on INSOURCE Tweets | Online Insider — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:03:00 +0000

[...] http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2008/02/11/the-insource-conference-twitter-experiment/ [...]

Comment on The INSOURCE Conference Twitter Experiment by Marydee Ojala

Marydee Ojala — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:31:46 +0000

The other interesting thing was the time stamps. They display in the order we posted/tweeted even though the actual time stamp came from our individual computers, mine is on Eastern US time and yours reflected the time in Prague.

Comment on The INSOURCE Conference Twitter Experiment by The INSOURCE Conference Twitter Experiment « UK eInformation Group

The INSOURCE Conference Twitter Experiment « UK eInformation Group — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:27:40 +0000

[...] INSOURCE Conference Twitter Experiment Karen Blakeman reports on her and Marydee Ojala’s conference twittering experiment. The main problems were having to limit updates to 140 characters, missing updates (a known bug and [...]

Comment on Tinfinger people search by Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:21:54 +0000

Karen, in answer to your question, our tag data is taken mostly from dbpedia, which itself is a simple dump of Wikipedia data. Unfortunately, the latest version of dbpedia we could manage to get at the time we added it to our system was from before Blair left office and changed religions. I’ve submitted a more accurate profile. Thanks for your interest!

Comment on Edinburgh: home to the UK’s fastest supercomputer by Neha

Neha — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:15:50 +0000

I had heard about India’s TATA making it up in top 5 fast supercomputers. Good to read a news closer to home.

Travel England Guide

Comment on Live.com link commands are back by LA Search Guy

LA Search Guy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:22:42 +0000

and like that (poof) it was gone.

-Kaiser Soze

PS: I signed into their new Webmaster Center which only enables you to validate an xml sitemap.
PSS: Alls well ends well.

Comment on Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers by The Confidential Resource › UK Newspaper Searches

The Confidential Resource › UK Newspaper Searches — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:25:38 +0000

[...] that searches across the UK’s major national newspapers. For an excellent review of this visit Karen Blakeman’s Blog. This was written by Richard McEachin. Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008, at 8:26 am. Filed [...]

Comment on Live.com link commands are back by Julian

Julian — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:18:34 +0000

Yes, I just realized it today to, but after reading a billion posts on other sites, you Elaine are the first one who actually confirm it is not working.

The absurd thing is that Live has this “advanced” search function where you choose “link to” and enter your domain, which just puts the same old “link:domainname.com” in the main search field, which the in turn produces no results. How is it even remotely possible that one of the most visited sites in the world has a search-function that does not work at all? Nobody in the world links to Google?

It’s just tragic.

Comment on FuzzFind Web Search by Karen Blakeman

Karen Blakeman — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:03:08 +0000

Thanks for the update on the new slider bars. A useful tool for bringing results to the fore that I might not otherwise see.

Karen

Comment on FuzzFind Web Search by FuzzFind Administrator

FuzzFind Administrator — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:51:26 +0000

Hi Karen,

Thanks for reviewing FuzzFind Web Search, we’re glad that you like it.

For your information, we’ve just added a new feature, allowing users to tune and personalize the search results on-the-fly by simply adjusting the weight for each search source through the use of sliders.

We’d appreciate any feedback that you may have on the service, and do hope that you will spread the word about FuzzFind if you find it useful.

Thanks again!

Best Regards,
FuzzFind Administrator
http://www.fuzzfind.com