links for 2009-06-04

"I recently blogged about the re-design of site search on The Guardian website. I thought it might be worth explaining some of the reasons behind the change, and how we went about the project."

Absolutely priceless photoshopping of Milo Yiannopoulos. I did enjoy his original piece though, which I am sure he 'sexed up' knowing exactly that it would provoke this kind of reaction :-)

"It appears that Bing is overriding the default search provider set by users of Internet Explorer 6. Several IE6 users have complained that since Bing launched, the search provided went from Google (which they set manually) to Bing. To makes things even worse, when the user tries to set the search provider back from Bing to Google, it doesn’t allow them". Perhaps Bing is in fact a clever strategic move to finally get everybody off of IE6?

Nice of The Telegraph to have picked a slow news day to report on the expenses claims of Telegraph columnist Boris Johnson, eh?

"The Daily Express mentioned a study in 150 people with heart disease, which apparently resulted in a reduction of their blood lipid levels to almost zero in just eight weeks. At present, this research does not appear to be available for review and it is not clear where it was conducted or whether it has been published."

You know those things that separate the professional journalist from the army of armchair bloggers - primary research and fact-checking - well, here's another great British example...and one from across the pond.