Phil Bradley's blog
Blog URL http://www.philbradley.typepad.com
Located Billericay, Essex United Kingdom
Tags search engines, internet, search, seo, libraries, librarians, web 2.0
Search engines, search technology and anything that will interest librarians and information professionals.
Latest Blog Posts
- Limiting Google results to seconds! on Nov 21, 2009 in Google specific
Let's face it - the 'Recent' option on Google results is great, but if you're looking for really recent material, you don't have much control over it. At least, until now. A nice post over at SearchEngineLand explains how you can limit your results t...
- Google Image Swirl on Nov 18, 2009 in Google specific
Google is continuing to explore the possibilities of image search. They've recently done work on images and Creative Commons, Google Similar Images, and Google image size search. They're now playing with something they call the Image Swirl, and you c...
- Why It's a Bad Idea to Send Huge Files by Email on Nov 18, 2009 in General internet related
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeWhy It's a Bad Idea to Send Huge Files by Email. Gmail has increased the maximum attachment size to 25 MB in June, but some people want to send larger files. Daniel (at Google) wrote a thoughtful comment that explains...
- Lists of Twitter users; a few thoughts on Nov 1, 2009 in Twitter
The first thing to say is that I said 'lists of Twitter users' not 'Twitter lists'. Now that Twitter has rolled out the lists option to everyone there's a lot of discussion about the basic concept of putting people into lists, yet this isn't new - it...
- Revisiting Google Squared on Oct 30, 2009 in Google specific
Suppose that you need to collect data on English castles, to include an image, description and details on a nearby town. Unless you've got a helpful book to hand (!) it might take a while to drag all of this information together. Then of course you r...
- The Boolify Project on Oct 30, 2009 in Children Search Engines
I've seen a few people mentioning the Boolify Project recently so I thought that I'd take a quick peek. It describes itself thus: "Boolify makes it easier for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and...
- Facebook - just HOW rude and patronising can you get? on Oct 25, 2009 in Facebook
I was wandering through my Facebook page (as you do) and I happened to look at the top right Suggested Friends option. I was stunned at what I saw: "She only has 14 friends." WTF do you think you're playing at Facebook? It's not up to you t...
