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Better Internet Search Ltd is announced.
Gordon Povey • 4 October 2019
Today, 4th October 2019, the new start-up company – Better Internet Search Ltd – was revealed through an exclusive article in Scottish newspaper The Herald. The new company is based on technology originally developed by Trisent and licensed to them.
As the name suggests they are developing a better internet search engine and have secured funding from the Next Generation Internet Trust to develop their ad-free monetisation model. You can read the full Herald Article here.
The company are currently looking for users to be the very first ‘guinea pigs’ to try out the alternative search engine in Edinburgh this month. You can register your interest here.
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Better Internet Search Ltd has a license to use the 1-timeline technology developed by Trisent. They have just announced that the second alpha version of their alternative search engine is to be launched on 18th March. This version includes general web searches plus news, images, video, maps and shopping. The development has been supported by […]
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Did you know that as a small business owner, you are one of the primary targets for cyberattacks? Cybercriminals are everywhere, and there are more and more ways in which they can prey on you. We all have vulnerabilities, and we can all be victims, but that doesn’t mean that we should just lay in […]
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Trisent is looking for talented software developers to join and exciting project. A full-stack developer is needed immediately and they are also looking for skills in a number of other areas too.
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Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users
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TRISENT is strengthening its collaboration with Edinburgh Napier University through two student projects supported by the Erasmus Programme. Two final-year students from Spain are coming to Edinburgh in March as part of the European Erasmus Programme. They will both be working with Trisent Ltd and Edinburgh Napier University on Proof-of-Concept projects which demonstrate the benefits that […]
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This is a guest blog post by Jack Warner of TechWarn. The French government bids farewell to Google and adopts Qwant. At the end of last year, the French National Assembly announced that they are not going to use Google anymore. All the devices belonging to the French government will adopt a new search engine […]
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Blockchain and smart contracts cannot be inherently trusted – they must establish trust in the architects, the coders the participants, and anyone involved in the implementation and operation of the system. However, the transparency and consensus mechanisms built into the technology are a significant aid to building that trust.
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In 1998 a colleague introduced me to the Google search engine and as a result I made the shift from my previously preferred search engine, Alta Vista, to Google. Twenty years on, despite trying many others, I still use Google regularly. I was delighted by the Google experience 20 years ago, but today I dislike Google search for several reasons. However, I have yet to find a noticeably better alternative.
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For those not familiar with the ‘Filter Bubble’, the term was coined by Internet activist Eli Pariser around 2010 and refers to a state of intellectual isolation resulting from personalisation applied to the delivery of web content. The suggestion is that users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints. This effectively isolates individuals within their […]
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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will kick in on 1st January 2020
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