This is the bare bones presentation that I gave at the Library 2.014 conference on October 8th 2014. If you're looking for different search engines to try out, you may find some good ideas here.

1. Alternative search engines; why
Google simply isn't enough.
Phil Bradley
Library 2.014

2. 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

3. What’s the problem with Google?
• It’s not a search engine
• The basic Google paradox
• The reduction in search functionality

4. 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

7. 984,000,000
OR
1,540,000,000 ?

8. Image rights filtering is broken

9. 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

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

11. Gaming Google

13. 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/

14. Google alternatives

15. Bing
• Integration with other social media platforms,
such as Twitter
• Snapshot (similar to Knowledge Graph)
• Roll-over for immediate video play

16. Blekko

17. Blekko
• No real updates since mid 2013 on the blog
• Tablet based version of the engine ‘Izik’

18. DuckDuckGo

19. 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?

20. Key points
• Differences are marginal
• Privacy is the big issue
• Lack of advanced search options

21. Then there’s Facebook

24. Privacy solutions?

25. Private searching
• Disconnect Private Search
• TOR
• Lightbeam

26. The deep, dark web
http://bgr.com/2014/01/20/how-to-access-tor-silk-road-deep-web/

27. Social Media search engines

28. Image search engines

29. News search engines

30. Newsmap http://www.newsmap.jp/

31. TenbyTen

32. Newseum

33. Search by similar

34. People search
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35. Some specialist engines

36. 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/

38. 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...

39. It’s an app world
http://apps4librarians.com/img/apps.png

40. Siri
http://osxdaily.com/2013/02/05/list-siri-commands/

41. 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/

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

43. Thank you for your time
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