alternative search engines; library 2.014 presentation
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This is the bare bones presentation that I gave at the Library 2.014 conference on October 8th 2014. If you're looking for different search engines to try out, you may find some good ideas here.TRANSCRIPT
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Alternative search engines; why Google simply isn't enough.
Phil BradleyLibrary 2.014
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Who is this guy again?
• Chartered (i.e. professional) Librarian• Immediate Past President of the Chartered
Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
• Internet consultant since 1995• Author, training and speaker on Internet
related subjects
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What’s the problem with Google?
• It’s not a search engine
• The basic Google paradox
• The reduction in search functionality
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Reductions in search
• The right to be forgotten is already broken
• Famous names V the average Joe
• Inconsistent use of # search option
• Indepth articles function is broken
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984,000,000OR1,540,000,000 ?
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Image rights filtering is broken
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What else?
• Google blog search• Discussions & Patents in ‘More’• Workarounds are disappearing as well• Withdrawal of foreign page translation; Chrome is
needed to automatically translate• Where’s the Advanced Search options?• What about the ~ search function?• Direct connect (+)• Authorship
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What about?
• Where’s the related: option gone?• How about links to?• iGoogle• Google Health• Google Reader• Aardvark• Notebook • Google Labs.......
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Gaming Google
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The big data problem
• 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone
• Every day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data
• That’s one new Google every 4 days
http://peter.a16z.com/2014/08/07/big-data-meets-big-compute/
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Google alternatives
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Bing
• Integration with other social media platforms, such as Twitter
• Snapshot (similar to Knowledge Graph)
• Roll-over for immediate video play
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Blekko
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Blekko
• No real updates since mid 2013 on the blog
• Tablet based version of the engine ‘Izik’
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DuckDuckGo
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DuckDuckGo
• Interface has been improved• Fun tools:– days between 01/01/2000 /03/31/2014 – argos coupon– @philbradley– password x strong– qr code bbc.co.uk– expand http://bit.ly/a– is bbc.com up?
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Key points
• Differences are marginal
• Privacy is the big issue
• Lack of advanced search options
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Then there’s Facebook
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Privacy solutions?
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Private searching
• Disconnect Private Search
• TOR
• Lightbeam
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Social Media search engines
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Image search engines
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News search engines
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TenbyTen
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Newseum
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Search by similar
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People search
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Some specialist engines
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The mobile world
• In 2000, just half of UK adults said that they had a mobile phone – that figure now stands at 94%.
• In Q1 2013 49% of adults used their mobile phones for internet access, up from 39% a year previously.
• In 2012, over 40 million subscribers accessed the internet via their mobile phones, an increase of nearly 9 million since 2011.
http://www.mobilemastinfo.com/stats-and-facts/
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Fundamental change in use
• PC internet• Shared or used at work
• Semi portable at best
• Web and web search
• Mobile internet• Personal
• Taken everywhere
• Web, web search, apps, social, location, service integration, image recognition, augmented reality...
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It’s an app world
http://apps4librarians.com/img/apps.png
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New search engines
https://wbsrch.com/ http://seenive.com/
http://junoba.com/
http://www.slideee.com/
http://www.allacronyms.com/
http://leap.it/
http://www.similarsitecheck.com/http://www.binpad.com/
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But what’s the *real* future of search?
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