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| BBCi search engine |
| Author: | Andrew Denny |
| Date: | Sunday, 12th May 2002 22:48 |
| Views: | 2,897 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Internet Searching, Webmaster, eCommerce | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b17664 |
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Tonight BBC Radio 4's 'In Business' program was about Google and the mechanics of making Internet searching pay. It was fascinating.
Immediately following the programme there followed an advertisement for BBCi, the BBC's 'search engine'. This was even more fascinating, not least because the results from BBCi are similar - even identical - to Google.co.uk.
Has anything been published about BBCi as a search engine, where it gets its results from, and what its plans are? Is it really an independent search engine?
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 | BBCi search engine | | Tonight BBC Radio 4's 'In Business' program was about Google and the mechanics of making Internet searching pay. It was ... |
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Andrew Denny |
12/05/02 22:48 |
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 | Re: BBCi search engine | | Hi Andrew
You'll probably have noticed by now that there are mounds of articles about the BBC's search tool, not all ... |
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Simon Collery |
14/05/02 17:15 |
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| | Re: BBCi search engine | | Andrew
You can also read about the BBCi search engine on their page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/tryout/about.shtml
(see attached posting I tried to make on 04 ... |
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Tom Szczepanik |
14/05/02 01:02 |
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| | Re: BBCi search engine | | Andrew
The BBCi search engine is powered by Google but delivers results with hierarchical preference given to UK sites.
An interesting article ... |
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Diana McAuley |
13/05/02 14:30 |
17676 |
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Lizeth Louw |
13/05/02 14:23 |
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| | Re: BBCi search engine | | Concisely, a press release style overview: http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0506-bbci.html .
The Independent's coverage of this: http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=291393 , a Guardian article: http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,709251,00.html
Some discussions in ... |
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Michael Bluett |
13/05/02 01:02 |
17665 |
| | Re: BBCi search engine | | Oh, I forgot to give a simple answer: Yes, it is Google, but filtered, and not using the ODP directory ... |
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Michael Bluett |
13/05/02 01:06 |
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| | Re: BBCi search engine | | The BBC news article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1964000/1964553.stm |
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Michael Bluett |
13/05/02 01:07 |
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