We have been running our Advanced Search Strategies workshop again, this time in Sheffield. As usual, we asked the participants at the end of the day to come up with their top tips and sites. This is the list. 1. Use evaluated subject listings to filter out the rubbish, for example OMNI (http://www.omni.ac.uk/) in the … Continue reading Advanced Internet Search Strategies – Top Tips and Sites
The new 2006 EBRD Directory of business information sources on central and eastern Europe and the CIS is now in press. Available from February 2006, the directory has been completely revised and extended to provide a comprehensive guide to business information resources on the region. The sites are is from the world’s leading publishers, banks, … Continue reading EBRD Directory 2006
The latest version of Firefox, 1.5, has been released. New and improved features include: * “drag and drop” feature for tabbed browsing so that you can re-arrange the tabs * Improved pop-up blocker *Addition of Answers.com now included in the integrated Search box. * Improved Live Bookmarks feature for RSS feeds. * New Automatic Update … Continue reading Firefox 1.5 released
See the Cheapest UK Petrol Prices for Free – PetrolPrices.com This site is maintained by Fubra who are the people behind OurProperty.co.uk. To find the lowest petrol price in your area you just type in a town or postcode. By default it looks for unleaded prices within 5 miles of your area. You can change … Continue reading See the Cheapest UK Petrol Prices for Free – PetrolPrices.com
At the end of every advanced search workshop that we run, the delegates vote on their 10 top search tips. The latest course was run for UKeiG (UK eInformation Group) on Friday, October 28th and was held at CILIP in London. A summary of the tips is given below but a more detailed explanation will … Continue reading Top 10 Search Tips
Business Week have released their 2005 league table of top 100 global brands. The table ranks 100 global brands that have a value greater than $1 billion. The brands are selected according to two criteria: they have to be global in nature, deriving 20% or more of sales from outside their home country, and there … Continue reading Business Week Top 100 Global Brands Scoreboard
Business Week’s Best of the Web Poll has now entered its second round. There are now 8 search tools under the Work-Search category: Google, Yahoo, Snap, A9, DogPile, Technorati, Clusty and Exalead. All are excellent tools in their own way. I was thinking of voting for Yahoo but eventually went for Exalead, mainly because of … Continue reading Business Week Online – Best of the Web Poll
Tales from the Terminal Room, July/August 2005 – Issue No. 64 The latest issue of Tales from the Terminal Room is now available. This month we look at whether the Yahoo database really is larger than Google’s, try out Google Desktop 2 and there is a review of the new Alacra Store. I’m afraid that … Continue reading Tales from the Terminal Room, July/August 2005 – Issue No. 64
Gigablast Toolbar Gigablast is the latest search engine to launch a toolbar for your browser. At first glance it seems rather Spartan when compared with other toolbars such as Yahoo’s and Google’s but it does have two unique and very useful features: search the sites linked from the current page and search the sites in … Continue reading Gigablast Toolbar
Dogpile Adds MSN Meta search tool Dogpile had added MSN to its collection of search engine. It now searches Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN all at the same time. You can compare three search tools at a time using Dogpile’s new Search Comparison and see how much overlap there is between them in the … Continue reading Dogpile Adds MSN