OliverBrown.me.uk » search engines http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:08:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Finally a rival to Google? http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2007/01/01/finally-a-rival-to-google/ http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2007/01/01/finally-a-rival-to-google/#comments Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:38:13 +0000 Oliver http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2007/01/01/finally-a-rival-to-google/ Jimmy Wales, the man behind Wikipedia has decided to launch a search engine. In a move reminiscent of the Open Directory Project, Wikia Search will be human edited. Beyond that, not much is known, but it will be. One of the core philosophies, according to a recent interview with Jimmy is that everything should be as transparent as possible – definitely a long way from the current search engines.

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Infoworld article.

]]> http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/11/17/google-yahoo-and-microsoft-working-together-for-the-good-of-mankind/feed/ 0 Google Custom Search – Language Learning http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/10/27/google-custom-search-oliverbrown-language-learning/ http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/10/27/google-custom-search-oliverbrown-language-learning/#comments Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:11:32 +0000 Oliver http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/10/27/google-custom-search-oliverbrown-language-learning/ Google just launched a clever new custom search thing. The idea is for people to create their own “custom” search engines that automatically give weight to certain sites, restrict others and silently append search terms therefore improving accuracy for niche topics. For example imagine an ornithologist searching for “a pair of great tits”..

So, I’ve created an engine for finding language learning resources. And it’s surprisingly good.

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