Sunday, 1 December 2019

Oh, how easy it is to get things wrong

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Many people living in London and south-east London were woken up in the early hours of the morning today by an "explosion". It t...
Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Google offers to include missing search terms - sometimes

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Google has been omitting terms from searches for several years.  For me, the matter came to a head wayback  in November 2011 (see  Dear Goog...
Friday, 1 June 2018

Presentation: free search tools for research information

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Edited highlights from my recent workshop on search tools for research information are now available. Please note that not all of the servic...
Saturday, 26 May 2018

Somebody, please put Google News out of its misery

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I didn't think Google News ( http://news.google.co.uk/ ) could get any worse but I was wrong. The previous revamp was bad enough: no mor...
Monday, 23 April 2018

SmugMug buys Flickr - should we stay or should we go?

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So the wait is over. When it was announced that Verizon was to buy Yahoo! there was concern as to what was going to happen to Flickr. Yahoo!...
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Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Brexit - sources of information

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Please note : a regularly updated version of this posting is now on the main website at http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/brexit.htm  Those of us...
Sunday, 29 October 2017

Google makes it harder to change location for country specific research

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Google has made a major change to search and it does not bode well. Results are now based on your current location. So what's new?  Goog...
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