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Happy to be writing for Jinfo (formerly FreePint) again
So much going on in the world of information and searching and so few posts written. My only excuse is that I’ve been very busy because there is so much going on in the…OK, you can guess the rest! It’s … Continue reading
Saving libraries and searching skills
Caitlin Moran eloquently expresses in Caitlin’s Moranifesto: Save our Libraries why Libraries still have their place in the age of the internet, and why we shouldn’t be content with just “Googling it”. “Do we all want to be Googlesheep, herded … Continue reading
Default to Google: it’s a hard habit to break
From time to time SearchEngineWatch produces useful reviews of search engines other than Google. Recently DuckDuckGo has been in spotlight. This was a useful article because the author really tried hard to give DuckDuckGo a proper trial and with some … 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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Trouble digesting all that information?
Recently, Sage kindly made freely available an interesting paper from 2012 entitled Coping with information obesity: A diet for information professionals, by Scott Brown. Although this is aimed at the info. professional (so the Disruptive Searcher found it to be right up … Continue reading
An interview with the Google founders – worth a read
Disruptive Searcher’s in the middle of many things at the moment, but I’d like to pause for a brief moment from the frenetic world of work to slurp tea and highlight this article from The Guardian: Google’s founders on the future of … Continue reading
“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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Oy, don’t make my life so searchable! Who said that? Um, I’ve forgotten
Disruptive Searcher’s been rather too quiet. Odd, since there are so many topics she could/should be covering at present. To start with there’s the high profile more-than-somewhat disruptive debate around the recent “right to be forgotten” ruling and what Google … Continue reading
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Tagged Big data, Business and management, Censorship, Featured sites, Future of search, Google, Information literacy, Mentality of search, People searching
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Informing people mindfully
Mindful living seems to be a bit of trend these days, even to the extent that 2014 has been branded the year of living mindfully in some quarters. Neatly defined in the Huffington Post article as “the cultivation of a … Continue reading
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