If you are looking for images is an obvious alternative. Interested in statistics and open data? Try the University of Auckland’s statistics portal ( ) or the Guardian’s Datastore ( ). See my own “daily” at or the paper.li on biofuels at. Or you could try a different approach: create a Twitter list of essential news sources, or use Paper.li to create daily “newspapers” using keyword searches or hashtags. I use a desktop client called RSS Owl ( ) but if that doesn’t suit you Phil Bradley has a list of alternatives on his blog at. Google Reader is about to disappear into a black hole but there are other, better RSS readers out there.
But should you even be using Google or similar, generic search engines in the first place? Think about the type of information you are looking for.įor news, RSS feeds are still a great way to pull together updates from your favourite newspapers, blogs and websites. My comparison and summary of search commands at lists the Bing commands that you are most likely to need. Or if you just want a no nonsense summary of your topic without all of Google’s personalisation and experiments look no further than DuckDuckGo. Bing may seem consumer/retail focused, but its list of advanced search commands is great at unearthing serious research information that Google buries at around the 2 millionth entry in your results list. There are other search engines out there. It seems that Google has locked them into its dreaded live experiments (1) with no possibility of escape, and the information is needed NOW. Our researcher tries all the advanced search commands and options they know but to no avail. How difficult is that? But Google decided that what they really wanted was a field guide to identifying buttercups. All they wanted was a list of donkey sanctuaries in Surrey. Picture the scene: an obviously distressed researcher is hunched over a computer screen, sobbing hysterically.
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