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BBCi search engine

Author:

Andrew Denny

Date:

Sunday, 12th May 2002 22:48

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Category:

Internet Searching, Webmaster, eCommerce

URL:

http://www.freepint.com/go/b17664

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diana McAuley

13/05/02 14:30

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•	Re: BBCi search engine
	Have a look at : http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0506-bbci.html Lizeth

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 ...

Michael Bluett

13/05/02 01:02

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•	Re: BBCi search engine
	Oh, I forgot to give a simple answer: Yes, it is Google, but filtered, and not using the ODP directory ...

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

Michael Bluett

13/05/02 01:07

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