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Ian's iBlog about Internet intelligence Ian's iBlog about Internet intelligence Ian's iBlog makes sense of the information industry one keyword at a time Articles
Example #99999 of What Is Not Competitive Intelligence
2007-05-17 22:00:00 Yet another article dealing with corporate epsionage. Spies, Lies and KPMG profiles another case where a firm undertakes unethnical methods to collect information. Precisely, in early 2006, a consultant from a private intelligence firm had misrepresent himself to gather information from an accountant at KPMG. It is truly amazing to see that firms are still willing to risk the money, ... More About: Intelligence , Example , Exam , Competitive , Petit
Google v2.0 - A New Face & Search
2007-05-17 15:18:00 If you have not visited Googl e today, expect a slightly modified look to it. Here is a list of the cosmetic changes applied to www.google.com only for the time being: The links to the main Google search applications that were located above the search box are now located in the left handside in the corner. A drop down menu ... More About: Search , Face
How Willing Are You To Change Search Engines?
2007-05-15 15:06:00 We all have our favourite search engines that we love to use however; what will prompt you to change engines? Will an advertising campaign change your mind? Ask.com hopes it does. A few weeks ago, I spotted a 30-second commercial on CNN for Ask.com which I found quite odd because search engines usually does not spend the cash for television ads, unless ... More About: Search Engines , Change , Search , Engines
Thomson Acquires Reuters
2007-05-15 14:02:00 The financial news segment of the information industry is about to change with Thom son purchase of Reuters as reported this morning. The merger will lead to fierce competition between the newly created entity and Bloomberg. Only time will tell if any of the information products from Reuters and Thomson will be modified to reflect any syngeries. More About: Acquire
Trivia Time: Name The First Search Engine?
2007-05-11 21:26:00 If your answer is Yahoo, you are absolutely………… 230;WRONG! The first search engine of the internet age was called, “Archie”. During my research for an upcoming article, I stumbled on a site that documents the history of search engines. History of Search Engine s: From 1945 to Google 2007 claims that Archie was buiilt first to ”solve data scatter problem by combining ... More About: Time , Search Engine , Trivia
Gadget Of The Week: Google Docs & Spreadsheets
2007-05-11 15:22:00 A few months ago, one of my friends went through a nightmare of a time when Excel crashed on his computer and could not get the application running in time to finish off a project. Little did he know of Google Docs & Spreadsheets . Yes, Google has their own versions of word processing and spreadsheets applications. ... More About: Google Docs , Gadget , Week
Search Players Enter Job Search Market
2007-05-11 13:34:00 Both Google and Microsoft has dipped their respective toes into the job search engine market ocean. Recently, it has been rumoured that Google was focusing its sights on purchasing SimplyHired after the announcement of Microsoft entered into a partnership with CareerBuilder. Insiders believe that if the SimplyHired purchase is completed, the resource could be bear the Google brand name. More About: Players , Market , Search , Mark , Enter
Accessing Government Information May Get Easier
2007-05-10 15:40:00 According to an article on DailyBulletin.com, four state governments are presently working with Google to see how to better provide information stored in their respective web domains via the search tool. Due to technical issues with accessing databases on the web, some search engines are unable to retrieve documents that can be relevant to citizens and ... More About: Information , Government , Informa , Over , Sing
Clinical Trials Research - World Health Organization
2007-05-08 21:27:00 One of the most challenging tasks in regards to collecting health related information is gathering data from clinical trials from specific countries. Although some countries may have their respective gateways to access information, a hub would be great to visit to search for clinical trials from around the globe. Well the request has been granted by the ... More About: Health , World , Research , Organization , Tria
Interesting Article On Wikipedia
2007-05-07 16:39:00 In the current issue of FirstMonday, there is an interesting article on Wikipedia and its success as a collaboration tool. In the short, Wikipedia, “6.40 million articles and 250 million edits, contributed in a predominantly undirected and haphazard fashion by 5.77 million unvetted volunteers.“ The complete text of the article is available here More About: Interesting , Article , Interest , Sting
Knuru
2007-05-07 16:15:00 Knuru is a newly established specialty search engine. Its objective is to bring users closer to business related information gathered by people at the Wharton Business School. Instead of conducting a general web search that may take forever to do, Knuru is a direct gateway to ?top-tier academic and institutional sources?. After keywords are entered, Knuru divides its ...
Microsoft To Buy Yahoo?
2007-05-07 16:09:00 According to several reports, Micro soft is rumoured to be in hot pursuit of Yahoo . Upon reading these reports, I began to think about the implications of the deal on the information industry however I realized that the potential buyout has nothing to do about providing access to information. It is all about acquiring online ‘real estate’ for ... More About: Soft , Yahoo!
Business Week?s Company Insight Center
2007-05-04 18:01:00 Here’s a resource for those of you who are competitive intelligence researchers. Business Week ’s Company Insight Center is a portal that provides access to company and industry specific information such as: Stock quotes and charts News and press releases Financials and key competitors Research compensation figures Biographies, and board relationships of key company executives Company Information Center More About: Business Week
Gadget of The Week: iGoogle
2007-05-04 14:27:00 Here is a gadget for individuals who are goo-goo for Googl e. iGoogle is the brand name that Google has placed on its personalized application to create mini-portals for individuals. The application permits users to have different kinds of content that can be available on their index page as they log onto Google. Some of the content options ... More About: Gadget , Week
You Can Be The Next Great Content Provider
2007-05-03 15:13:00 According to Hitwise, activity on Web 2.0 sites increased by 686% over the past two years. Platforms such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook and other blogging applications has attracted a large amount of attention and does not show any signs of slowing down. What are the implications you may ask? If you are a serious user of the Web ... More About: Great , Content , Provider , Tent , Ovid
Is Retaining Too Much Information A Bad Thing For Search Engines?
2007-04-25 17:01:00 Few months ago, Google was dragged into court by a couple of European newspapers in regards to copyright issues, specifically, Google’s cached function that the tool uses to capture text that has been published previously on websites. The newspapers claimed that Google did not have the right to provide access to such content that has ... More About: Information , Search Engines , Search , Engine , Informa
#1 Brand Name - Google
2007-04-25 14:57:00 It is truly remarkable how Googl e has enter the lives of many. Of course, as users of the internet, we are familiar with the search tool however; the recognition of the search tool has expanded offline. Google has been deemed the world’s most valuable brand. According to research consultancy Millward Brown’s second annual brand survey, Google leads General Electric, ... More About: Brand
My Weekly Rant - Articles On Competitive Intelligence
2007-04-12 18:58:00 I do not mean to be some kind of a competitive intelligence snob, but I’m becoming a bit tired of the frequent articles on competitive intelligence that are indexed by some news search tools. My problem with these articles… THEY ARE ALL THE SAME. Yes, the practice is relatively young as compared to other business functions however; is ... More About: Articles , Intelligence , Intel , Article , Comp
Gadget Of The Week: Ask X
2007-04-12 18:52:00 Have you heard of Ask X? If not, you are probably a dedicated Google user and will not consider using another search tool. Ask X is a search tool that has a pretty neat way of presenting its results. Ask X divides its results page in several parts depending on the type of information that is available ... More About: Gadget , Week
Blogging Comes To China
2007-04-12 14:20:00 Earlier this week, Yahoo unveiled its new blogging application for the Chinese market. The application is a part of a Web 2.0 package that includes a social networking platform. If you are probably wonder what is the big deal about this news item? Well, it is all about content and information that will be available in a ... More About: China , Blogging , Blog , Come , Blogg
Beware of Google News
2007-04-11 16:35:00 I do not know if this is a small crawling glitch that Google has occasionally but I have noticed that non-news content has been creeping into results from Google News . Upon obtaining my news alerts for the keywords, “competitive intelligence”, I read two hits that were total non-news related. They were results from informit.com, a portal regarding ... More About: Google News , War , Ware
My Weekly Rant - When YouTube Content Becomes News
2007-04-06 15:50:00 YouTube is great. Missed a video clip from the past, it is probably on the platform. Want to share a video clip with friends, YouTube is the tool for you. The issue that I have regarding YouTube is when it becomes a source of news for news outlets. I cite the recent case of the video clip, ... More About: News , Youtube , Rant , Content
Growth of Weblogs
2007-04-06 14:38:00 According to State of the Blog osphere / State of the Live Web, a report by Technorati, the number of weblogs grew to more than 72 million this year. Despite the large amount, it is not close to the number that was projected by industry experts. Growth was scheduled to double every six months however, it ... More About: Weblog , Blogs , Weblogs
Gadget Of The Week: Alpha
2007-04-05 17:37:00 Yahoo is currently testing a new tool which permits meta searches of their web properties and the crawling of additional internet sources as specified by users. The tool pulled content from the following sources: Flickr Yahoo! Web Search Yahoo! Answers Yahoo! News Search YouTube The screenshot below presents the results from YouTube for the keyword, “New York Knicks”. (See the right hand ... More About: Gadget , Alpha , Week
Wikipedia Vs Citizendium? Let The Credibility Battle Begin!!!
2007-04-03 21:22:00 If you are a regular reader of my blog, you probably know my take on Wiki pedia . If you are not, let’s just say that I’m not the BIGGEST fan of Wikipedia due to credibility issues. Well I discovered today, Citi zendium, “a project aimed at creating a new free encyclopedia online.” Wonderful. In the Citzendium press release, the ... More About: Pedi , Bili
Google Blog Search By Country
2007-04-02 16:38:00 I must have missed detailed ragerding blog searching with Google however; it is important to be informed of. Users of Google Blog Search can now execute searches for country specific content. Conducting a brief search, I found the following country specific tools. Australia - www.google.com.au/blogsearch?hl=en Canada - www.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en France - www.google.fr/blogsearch?hl=fr United Kingdom - www.google.co.uk/blogsearch More About: Country , Count
ZoomInfo Upgrades
2007-04-02 16:06:00 ZoomInfo has upgraded its search tool for business users. Current features include: Free Company Searches Comprehensive Job Searches Highly Relevant Product Searches Low Cost Access to People Information ZoomInfo is available at www.zoominfo.com More About: Zoom , Grades , Ades , Upgrades
Online Newspapers Vs. Hardcopy Newspapers
2007-04-02 15:31:00 Fans of hardcopy newspapers cannot be too thrilled with the results from a study courtesy of the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based journalism school. The study revealed that “People who use the Internet to read the news have a greater attention span than print readers“. I can imagine the thoughts that are running through the heads of ... More About: News , Newspapers , Hard , Online , Paper
My Weekly Rant - Too Many Search Engines?
2007-03-30 14:21:00 It always blows my mind to see the countless amount of search engines that are placed online on annual basis. Millions are spent on research and development on tools however; they seem to lack the marketing support to compete with the big boys and receive attention by users of internet. I try to test all of ... More About: Search Engines , Search , Rant , Engine , Week
Gadget Of The Week: Google Reader
More articles from this author:2007-03-30 13:46:00 Tired of your RSS feed jamming on you? Tired of the broken links that are on RSS feeds? Google has introduced, Google Read er , a pretty nifty RSS feeder that that is pretty easy to use. Once logged onto a Google Account, users may select the feeds that corresponds to their needs for information. Some of the feed bundles that ... More About: Gadget , Google Reader 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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