Alternative search engines; Library 2.014 presentation

Alternative search engines; why Google simply isn't enough.

Phil BradleyLibrary 2.014

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

What’s the problem with Google?

• It’s not a search engine

• The basic Google paradox

• The reduction in search functionality

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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Image rights filtering is broken

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

What about?

• Where’s the related: option gone?• How about links to?• iGoogle• Google Health• Google Reader• Aardvark• Notebook • Google Labs.......

Gaming Google

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/

Google alternatives

Bing

• Integration with other social media platforms, such as Twitter

• Snapshot (similar to Knowledge Graph)

• Roll-over for immediate video play

Blekko

Blekko

• No real updates since mid 2013 on the blog

• Tablet based version of the engine ‘Izik’

DuckDuckGo

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?

Key points

• Differences are marginal

• Privacy is the big issue

• Lack of advanced search options

Then there’s Facebook

Privacy solutions?

Private searching

• Disconnect Private Search

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Social Media search engines

Image search engines

News search engines

Newsmap http://www.newsmap.jp/

TenbyTen

Newseum

Search by similar

People search

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Some specialist engines

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/

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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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/

But what’s the *real* future of search?

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