Discovery AND disorder

Committee member Antony Groves from The University of Sussex writes about the issue of Discovery and how sometimes a curve …

Search cheatsheets and guides – the 2012 list (so far)

Search tools are constantly changing and there are, let’s face it, a million ways to search for information online. There’s also …

SEO, Google and search algorithms : a quick look under the hood

There are reams (or the digital equivalent) of advice about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) available online, but a lot of …

Duck Duck Go teams up with WolframAlpha

Everyone’s favourite underdog search engine DuckDuckGo has officially teamed up with Wolfram|Alpha , they just announced. DuckDuckGo already utilises the Wolfram|Alpha …

Checking your social media ranking

There are plenty of reasons to keep an eye on social media rankings,  from finding out what’s being said about …

Social search with Aardvark (Q&A series)

Aardvark describes itself as ‘social search’; whereby questions are answered by a person (or people) rather than a webpage. More …

RSS technologies: around the web

ReadWriteWeb has printed a top ten guide to RSS and Syndication Technologies for the year, including mobile and web-based RSS …