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Mumbai terrorist attacks show that search engines still can't get breaking news right
We are used to hearing that search engines are one of the primary routes that people find news on the net, but I've just been having a scout around the three major search engines as news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai unfolds, and I have to say that they are not performing very well. Google does have some news results inserted into the one word search for 'mumbai', but they are not in the top slot. Searching for 'india'...

Read the full post - Published November 26, 2008 in Google, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 12
Yesterday I began to wrap up my series of posts about getting site search right with the start of a step-by-step guide to transforming the style of Google results that users are familiar with, into something with a richer user experience. Add structured data Google understands a lot about the structure of the web. It understands how all the pages that it has crawled on your site are linked together, and uses this to understand what the key pages...

Read the full post - Published November 21, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 11
Transforming your results During the course of this series of articles, I've looked at various elements of interface design which have been employed, for better or for worse, across a wide range of European newspaper websites. Today I'm going to wrap up the series by laying out a step-by-step transformation of Google's search results listing into something that presents users who opt for 'site search' with a richer UI experience. Google's layout In part 2 of this series, I...

Read the full post - Published November 20, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 10
Over the last couple of weeks I've been publishing a series of posts about getting site search right, based on my presentation at the 2008 Amsterdam Euro IA Summit. Today I wanted to look at some examples of poor search user experience design which you should seek to avoid. Don't use confusing gimmicks Lots of search technologies come with plenty of features in them for displaying relevancy to the user - almost all of them useless. Giving results a...

Read the full post - Published November 18, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

8 Search APIs for Hack Days
I spent most of yesterday at The Guardian's first ever internal Hack Day. I gave one of the short five minute 'lightning' talks that got the event kicked off. I wanted to outline a few of the search related APIs out there that might prove useful as people put their hacks together. Here's the written down version... Google AJAX Search API I'll start with the big one - the Google AJAX Search API. This lets you put Google Search in...

Read the full post - Published November 14, 2008 in Google, Search, The Guardian, Yahoo - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 9
I've been writing a series of posts about getting site search right based on my presentation at the Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam this year In the last part I started looking at some examples where search user experience goes wrong. In order to entice the masses away from Google, a site search needs to be on the top of its game, and avoid things like intrusive adverts, opening unnecessary new windows, and providing an inconsistent experience. Another sure...

Read the full post - Published November 13, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 8
A couple of weeks back I began a series of articles on currybetdotnet based upon my recent talk at the Euro IA Summit. As well as looking at ways that site search can be made distinctive from Google by including thumbnails and information Google can't obtain, 'advanced' search, and following some positive European examples, I've been looking at areas of the user experience where designers need to show caution. Today I want to start looking at some examples of...

Read the full post - Published November 12, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 7
Over the last couple of weeks I've been publishing a series of posts based on an expanded version of the presentation I gave at the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam at the end of September. There, I was talking about "Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google", and getting site search right for news. I've looked at ways that site search can be made distinctive from Google by including thumbnail images, information Google can't obtain, providing usable 'advanced' search,...

Read the full post - Published November 11, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

The evil of searching for 'Gary Glitter'
Personally I remain unconvinced of the power of 70's music to reach out through time and corrupt the youth of today via the medium of guidance notes for exams, but that hasn't stopped the Gary Glitter GCSE 'scandal' being one of the main media storms of the day. For me perhaps the most unintentionally funny bit of it is the quote from the anonymous headmaster in The Sun about his fears when teenagers go online: "He's a convicted paedophile jailed...

Read the full post - Published November 10, 2008 in Children and Teenagers, Music, Search, The Sun - No comments yet   Add your comment 

He might be the Web 2.0 President, but Barack Obama's change.gov site doesn't get SEO
There has been a lot of discussion in the mainstream media about the role the Internet played in electing Barack Obama as the next President of the USA, but I haven't seen very much of it being focussed on the search engine visibility of the candidates and their campaigns. By Thursday, Obama had launched the change.gov transition portal, and transatlantic search engine guru Danny Sullivan was extremely critical of the search engine friendliness of the site in both an article...

Read the full post - Published November 8, 2008 in Politics, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 6

Published November 7, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 5

Published November 6, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 4

Published November 5, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 3

Published October 31, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 2

Published October 30, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 1

Published October 29, 2008 in Articles, IA Summit, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Introducing Olympic Chipwrapper

Published August 4, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Newspapers, Olympics, RSS, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

BBC iPlayer browser search plug-in updated

Published July 16, 2008 in BBC, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

More thoughts on Google's sitelinks algorithm

Published June 22, 2008 in Google, Search - 4 comments so far   Add your comment 

Is this evidence that Google hand-edits 'sitelinks' for small sites?

Published June 21, 2008 in Google, Search - 5 comments so far   Add your comment 

Begging more questions than answers - the BBC Trust bbc.co.uk review: Search

Published June 6, 2008 in Articles, BBC, Search - 4 comments so far   Add your comment 

Introducing the Euro 2008 edition of Chipwrapper

Published June 3, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Euro2008, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google News and the missing Mayor from Henley

Published May 27, 2008 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

At last, some varied 'popular' search terms on the Express site

Published May 3, 2008 in Daily Express, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

OMG! They are not searching for 'Princess Diana' anymore at the Daily Express!

Published April 30, 2008 in Daily Express, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Chipwrapper and the Ofcom PSB review

Published April 26, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Newspapers, OFCOM, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

How many British newspapers use sitemap.xml to help search engine indexing?

Published April 24, 2008 in Newspapers, Search - 8 comments so far   Add your comment 

Newspaper "Site Search Smackdown": Round 6 - Google vs The Search Engine All-Stars

Published April 13, 2008 in Google, Microsoft, Newspapers, Search, Yahoo - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Newspaper "Site Search Smackdown": Round 5 - The Newspapers vs Google

Published April 12, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Google, Newspapers, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Newspaper "Site Search Smackdown": Round 4 - The Daily Express vs The Times

Published April 11, 2008 in Daily Express, Newspapers, Search, The Times - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Newspaper "Site Search Smackdown": Round 3 - The Guardian vs The Mirror

Published April 10, 2008 in Daily Mirror, Newspapers, Search, The Guardian - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Newspaper "Site Search Smackdown": Round 2 - The Telegraph vs The Independent

Published April 9, 2008 in Daily Telegraph, Newspapers, Search, The Independent - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Newspaper "Site Search Smackdown": Round 1 - The Daily Mail vs The Sun

Published April 8, 2008 in Articles, Daily Mail, Newspapers, Search, The Sun - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

The online fall-out of the Daily Express apology to Madeleine McCann's family

Published March 19, 2008 in Daily Express, Google, Media, Newspapers, Search, Web - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Chipwrapper goes to church

Published February 23, 2008 in Blogging, Chipwrapper, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Search the blogs of the Miami IA Summit

Published February 15, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Personal search engine optimsation for Information Architects

Published February 2, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, Search - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Google blocks access to the Biased BBC blog via search

Published January 30, 2008 in BBC, Google, Search - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

FAQ you! ACAP doesn't do 'attribution' for critics

Published January 25, 2008 in Search, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

24/7 TV news websites: Part 12 - Search III

Published January 24, 2008 in BBC, CNN, France 24, Search, Television, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

24/7 TV news websites: Part 11 - Search II

Published January 23, 2008 in France 24, Search, Television, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

24/7 TV news websites: Part 10 - Search

Published January 22, 2008 in BBC, CNN, Search, Television, Web, Yahoo - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Reflecting on reflections of a Newsosaur

Published December 30, 2007 in Blogging, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

ACAP - flawed and broken from the start?

Published December 2, 2007 in Newspapers, Popular, Search, Web - 4 comments so far   Add your comment 

That 2002 BBCi Search impartiality problem in full

Published November 29, 2007 in BBC, Radio, Search - 4 comments so far   Add your comment 

Headline buzz tag cloud now on Chipwrapper

Published September 10, 2007 in Chipwrapper, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Pavarotti and Jane Tomlinson's deaths test search

Published September 7, 2007 in Chipwrapper, Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Chipwrapper gets a rugby edition for the world cup

Published September 6, 2007 in Chipwrapper, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Introducing Chipwrapper - a UK newspaper search engine

Published September 3, 2007 in Chipwrapper, Newspapers, Search - 8 comments so far   Add your comment 

Using 'TEST' as a test search term is quite testing for TravelMail and others

Published August 7, 2007 in Newspapers, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

BBC iPlayer search plugin for Internet Explorer and Firefox, and an iPlayer Google Toolbar button

Published August 2, 2007 in BBC, Google, Search, iPlayer - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

Back at the BBC (slight return)

Published July 24, 2007 in BBC, Search - 6 comments so far   Add your comment 

Google Toolbar buttons for British newspapers including headline feeds

Published July 19, 2007 in Google, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

British newspaper search plugins for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2

Published July 11, 2007 in Newspapers, Search - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

BBC search plugins for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2

Published June 29, 2007 in BBC, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Tweaking my old Glastonbury articles in response to searches

Published June 15, 2007 in BBC, Music, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google search results promoting YouTube's Premier League copyright infringement

Published June 13, 2007 in Football, Google, Search, YouTube - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Guess who is the the favourite search term on the Daily Express site?

Published June 11, 2007 in Daily Express, Media, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Who benefits financially from the Madeleine McCann publicity juggernaut?

Published June 1, 2007 in Children and Teenagers, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Media, Newspapers, Search, The Times - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

How much did shingles cost in 1963?

Published May 18, 2007 in Google, Music, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Questionable eBay adverts on Google "Jewish cemetery" searches

Published May 14, 2007 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google putting Wikipedia extracts at #1 - for Bruce Hornsby anyway

Published March 29, 2007 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

My 'biased' view of the Biased BBC blog - part two

Published March 15, 2007 in BBC, Google, Search - 6 comments so far   Add your comment 

Search Engine Land's social bookmarking faux pas

Published March 7, 2007 in Search, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google kills the political Googlebomb - well, unless you are French

Published January 30, 2007 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Sitemaps in search engine news

Published November 16, 2006 in Google, Search, Yahoo - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Someone auctions FTP access to a .gov site on eBay

Published November 10, 2006 in Search - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

High rankings for Wikipedia doesn't mean the net has been hi-jacked by teenagers

Published October 30, 2006 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Ignore the #privacy campaign - searching the internet is not a private activity. Period.

Published October 18, 2006 in Search - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet - Shopping around

Published October 15, 2006 in Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet - Easier visual interfaces

Published October 14, 2006 in Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet - Let the information come to you

Published October 13, 2006 in Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet - Optimise your browser for search

Published October 12, 2006 in Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet - Yahoo!'s "social search" concept

Published October 11, 2006 in Search, Yahoo - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet - Google's personal search services

Published October 10, 2006 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet

Published October 9, 2006 in Articles, Search - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Lou Rosenfeld and Rich Wiggins present their search analytics survey results

Published October 2, 2006 in Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Redesigned Sun Online search

Published September 6, 2006 in Media, Search, The Sun - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Search across photo-sharing sites from Kodak, Shutterfly, Snapfish and PictureTrail

Published August 28, 2006 in Product review, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

The release of AOL search data risks demonising search log analysis as a tool

Published August 14, 2006 in Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching for pictures on ImageShack and Yahoo! Photos

Published August 8, 2006 in Product review, Search, Yahoo - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Using image search on Slide

Published August 7, 2006 in Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Using image search on Photobucket

Published August 3, 2006 in Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Why webmasters don't like Lycos Retriever

Published July 20, 2006 in Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Looking at Lycos Retriever Beta

Published July 19, 2006 in Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching The Sun online - part two

Published July 18, 2006 in Media, Product review, Search, The Sun - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Search box placement in British newspaper search result pages

Published July 17, 2006 in Media, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

British newspaper homepage search box placement

Published July 14, 2006 in Media, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Surveying search across British online newspapers

Published July 13, 2006 in Media, Product review, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Searching The Daily Star and The Sunday Sport

Published July 12, 2006 in Daily Star, Music, Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching The Daily Express

Published July 11, 2006 in Daily Express, Media, Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching The Financial Times

Published July 10, 2006 in Media, Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching The Scotsman

Published July 7, 2006 in Media, Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Yahoo! Answers - Beta AND (New)

Published July 7, 2006 in Search, Yahoo - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching The Telegraph

Published July 6, 2006 in Media, Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching The Guardian

Published July 5, 2006 in Media, Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching The Daily Mirror

Published July 4, 2006 in Daily Mirror, Media, Newspapers, Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching The Independent

Published July 3, 2006 in Media, Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching 'This Is London' from The Evening Standard

Published June 30, 2006 in Evening Standard, Media, Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Searching The Daily Mail

Published June 29, 2006 in Daily Mail, Media, Product review, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

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