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Google vs Bing - which will you use?

June 1, 2009 – 5:57 pm

My Twitter feed is starting to get a heap of activity about bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, so I thought I better check it out.
There’s an interesting conversation going on over at Robert Scoble’s friendfeed - must be great to have so many connections - but even with all the opinion going on, it’s still […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, google | Comments (2)

Nice new search options from Google

May 15, 2009 – 8:26 am

Just the other day I was trying to find some reviews on a particular software product but was really only interested in quite recent ones. As the product in question has been around for some years there were plenty of reviews about it but I had a really difficult time finding recent ones with […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, google | Comments (1)

a great post from the Google Blog

February 20, 2009 – 8:06 am

If any of the following quotes interest you at all, you should really take the time to read this reasonably lengthy, but very compelling post from Jonathan Rosenberg, SVP, Product Management on the Google Blog:

we are in the midst of what is likely the worst economic situation of our lifetimes
Access to information has completed its […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, google | Comments (0)

Specifications for Repository Federations - Part 1

September 5, 2008 – 11:48 am

Our company has been providing search/discovery services for repositories for over 10 years. The first project that we were involved with was EDNA (EDucation Network Australia) - Australia’s gateway to education resources. Edna, as it is now known, is still providing search services for content that it catalogs, and also other useful collections […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, interoperability, metadata, standards, openDSM | Comments (0)

Open source distributed search manager ready to go

February 20, 2008 – 11:54 am

For a number of years now education.au has been providing ’search’ services to the education community in a number of its projects. The best known of these is ‘edna‘. edna’s search functionality started out as a collection of metadata records describing web resources that would be of value to people in the […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, open source, openDSM | Comments (2)

Metadata still matters

March 1, 2007 – 7:43 am

Metadata is used in many applications and has potential in many more emerging areas but I am going to concentrate simply on ’search’ here. Those of us in the repository space will be familiar with the metadata vs text indexing argument and comparisons with Google.
This blog has been active for a few months now […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, viewdo, Wii, metadata | Comments (2)