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To keep searches secure and confidential try a new search engine called “DuckDuckGo”.

A recently-developed search engine, Blekko, is adopting a strict policy of suppressing results from “web spam” sources to ensure that its search results are uncontaminated.

A survey by the Book Industry Study Group (the U.S. book industry’s leading trade association for policy, standards and research) has revealed that students prefer their textbooks in conventional print-on-paper form rather than as e-texts.

Results of a survey of bias in the search algorithms of Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, and Ask.

It has certainly courted notoriety since its implementation and has also received its share of plaudits. Wikipedia was founded on 15 January 2001. What is its future?

The UK eInformation Group (UKeiG) – a special interest group of CILIP – has just published The 2011 Guide to Free or Nearly-Free e-Books – a 177-page annotated guide by Chris Armstrong (a KLA trainer). The guide lists over 230 sites offering either single titles or collections of titles, search engines and gateways for e-books. Each site [...]

A review of 2010 from the perspective of search engine design.

The view of the World Wide Web provided by general search engines, such as Google, is very limited. A recent study suggests that the “surface” Web (accessed by general search engines) consists of about 167 terabytes of information, whilst the “Deep” web holds about 91 000 terabytes. Special services have been developed to explore the Deep Web. Find out more . . .

A modified searching algorithm has been introduced for Google Books, that takes account of one hundred predictive indicators of “title” relevance.

Pearltrees (http://www.pearltrees.com) offers an attractive way of mapping sites and creating links between sites that you use and wish to pass on to others.