Writing about web page http://www.rsc.org/ Yesterday I found myself at the Royal Society of Chemistry at a seminar on Finding Chemical Information. (My manager had planned to go but something came up at the last minute and I went in her place). There were 7 presentations, and 30 atendees so I will make no attempt to cover any detail ...

I've talked about inSuggest before in fairly glowing terms - you just drag a few webpages or images into a search area and the engine finds other similar material for you. This time they've added a bookmark feature. Provide the Bookmark suggestions resource with your (or anyone else's) del.icio.us name and it does the same job. You get ...

britannicanet.com » Blog Archive » Britannica’s New Site. I think we can post this one under 'it was always going to happen'. According to the britannicanet site Encyclopaedia Britannica is about to launch a new initiative. Expert contributors and readers will be able to supplement the content with their own information. Apparently ''the result ...

Who's Websites like?- Find similar Websites. Very straightforward - pop in a URL and this resource will find other sites that are similar to it, together with a % of how similar the sites are that it finds. I obviously tried out my site and it reported back with LibraryThing Search Engine Watch Internet Public Library Librarians Internet ...

This is a really useful article if you're interested in learning How to Analyze your Site with Del.icio.us. I've mentioned del.icio.us a few times as a search tool, and Ann Smarty has provided some great examples of what can be done. For example, it's possible to use Delicious to search a specific website page using http://del.icio.us/url/ Doing ...

And so the search to get better results continues with TigerLogic's ChunkIt! a personal Search Engine. Basically you download their software which sits in with your browser and you choose your search engine, run the search on the ChunkIt! interface. Then you see the search engine results on the right, and on the left you get to see the page with ...

Interesting article from Search Engine Watch: Blended Search Results Change Searcher Behavior. With the addition of images, video, news stories and so on in the returned results users are more likely to click on such links, rather than the usual web pages. Clearly if you put more options in front of a user they're going to take you up on them. ...

The news from MarketingVOX is that Google has hit an all time high with 67.25% of US searches ending March 29. This time last year the figure was 64.13%, so it's an impressive increase. The other figures are? Yahoo                20.29% MSN Search      5.25% Ask  ...

This article is worth a look: Six Techniques to Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell You. Some of these are more useful than others (ie. this article was written with bias towards an American readership), but take a look. The techniques are: Use search engines and Wikipedia to find quality research tools. The emphasis here isn't on *using* ...

The American Cancer Society has launched a new search engine: Search to Fight. It's powered by Yahoo and is different from other search engines in that when Internet users search and click on sponsored advertisements generated from their specific search results, the Society will receive a significant portion of the income generated from the ad ...