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Searching the deep web
I had the great pleasure yesterday to attend a training course at CILIP HQ on Navigating the Deep Web: Advanced Search Strategies for Researchers, run by search guru, Karen Blakeman. I always come away from Karen’s courses feeling invigorated and … Continue reading
Correction: I exist not solely “to serve”
In reading my previous post, it has been pointed out to me by a fellow information professional that I’m wrong to say that “I exist only to serve”. In fact, says the colleague, you give strategic direction and advice, too. … Continue reading
Google news manoeuvers with a European flavour
News is a ubiquitous free and fee-based commodity on the web. There’s always a lot of it out there, with many duplicate and similar versions of the same story doing the rounds giving the appearance of even more news than … Continue reading
“Privacy as we’ve known it is ending”…really? Only for some
The following NY Times article floated into my in-box via CB Insights’ newsletter – CB Insights is one of the leading VC and start-up online sources, and has a very lively newsletter! I hope CB Insights’ editor won’t mind me … Continue reading
The changing way we search for news: FreePint blog
Further to my last post on What’s happening to the way we search for news?, below is the link, as promised, to my summary FreePint blog post: Is it worth paying for premium news sources? FreePint’s blog is worth keeping an … Continue reading
What’s happening to the way we search for news?
In short, it’s changed and still changing. The excellent and informative haven for enthusiastic information professionals, otherwise known as FreePint, is busy investigating this topic at present. I’m delighted to be involved with this and hope to have an article … Continue reading
Posted in Business and management, Company data, Featured sites, Future views, Information literacy, Latest news, Psychology of search, Search engines
Tagged Business and management, Competitive intelligence, Featured sites, Future of search, Information literacy, Mentality of search, Mindfulness, News sites
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“Pearls” of wisdom from Phil: take a break from Google
I’ve mentioned before that there are other search engines apart from Google, which most everyone knows anyway. But that doesn’t mean that we actually bother to try them very often. Well, we should be bothering. Save time, find more of what you … Continue reading
Posted in Censorship, Featured sites, Future views, Information literacy, Latest news, Psychology of search, Scientific sites, Search engines
Tagged Academic, Censorship, Competitive intelligence, Featured sites, Future of search, Google, Information literacy, Mentality of search, Search tips
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Useful beginner’s guide to patent searching
Patents are useful documents and there are lots of free sources out there that you can use to search them. A recent article in Sensors Magazine by a European Patent Office (EPO) patent examiner, provides a good introduction to using … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic, Competitive intelligence, Fun stuff, Patents, Search tips
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Yippee, it’s the company results conference season!
Many companies report their results at this time of year and one way that the public companies do this is through conferences. Two such examples are the annual CAGNY event – Consumer Analyst Group of New York and the Citi … Continue reading
The power of sharing
In a recent article, What executives should know about open data, McKinsey discusses how significant it could be if organisations would agree to share some of the vast quantities of data they have. It already happens in some areas. As … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic, Big data, Censorship, Competitive intelligence, Innovation
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