Four #real-time search options leave Google behind
The bottom line for journalists is that Google no longer has the best answer to the simplest question: ‘What are people saying about [my query] right now?’ For those of us steeped in Google search experience – it’s a scarey thought.
Google’s advanced operators for journalists
Confusion is rife about how and when you can use Google’s advanced operators. Used effectively they can transform your research by helping you get better results faster.
Twitter monitoring – Tweetbeep
Monitor brands, competitors, names or any specific term using tweetbeep. Tweetbeep says the tool is like ‘Google Alerts for Twitter’. Like Google Alerts the service lets you keep track of terms mentioned on Twitter without having to visit the site or consult other monitoring tools. For more on Twitter monitoring.
Easy transfer from Google Notebook to Evernote and Zoho
Evernote and Zoho make it easy for Google Notebook users left high and dry.
Memory search tool – Infoaxe
Ever cursed the time it’s taken you to hunt down a page that you forgot to bookmark? Try the web memory tool Infoaxe for easy access to your browsing history.
Icerocket skates in where Google fears to tread
Icerocket launches some incredibly useful features for tracking rapidly changing web content.
Browsers compete on privacy controls
There are very good reasons why journalists need to worry about their privacy more than most and I outlined those reasons in this article for journalism.co.uk a few months ago. So, it’s good to see that browsers are increasingly competing on the way they allow users to protect their online privacy. The Center for Democracy [...]
The Semantic Web today – An Interview with John Breslin
Everyone assumes that the ’semantic web’ will mean we’ll have better search engines. In fact, Web 3.0 will do a lot more, and journalists and researchers should be ahead of the curve.
Not many people are as close to the heart of the Semantic Web as John Breslin. John is the founder of the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) project, a member of the W3C Advisory Committee, lecturer at the National University of Ireland and an associate researcher on the semantic web at the Digital Research Institute in Galway.
I caught up with John recently for this analysis of the semantic web and journalism published by journalism.co.uk. John’s points were so interesting that Insite has brought you the full interview.
New UK search engine – insite talks to lead programmer
The beta version of the new UK-based search engine MSE360 has attracted praise from both sides of the Atlantic with a three-tier display, clean design and other unique features such as virus alerts. I caught up with its Lead Programmer Daniel Clarke to talk about his plans, what MSE360 can offer journalists and researchers, and how a UK search engine can find elbow room in a crowded market. “Google is entrenched in the minds of the British population, and that’s the main challenge for us. We’ve got to change the perception that Google has all the answers,” he told us.
