The search engine I’ve been working on and talked about at The ASIS&T IA Summit has gone live on the homepage of BBCi
Go team!
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Petafloptimism 
Nice – though feels unlike anything else on the BBCi site is this deliberate?
Interesting phenomenon: I did a test search for a jumble of characters (asdas) and the spelling advice recommended “asdasd”. Seems that this is a more common garbage entry.
I see the Independent are now questioning this as a use of licence fee payers cash. Oh well..
The crude attempt at screening out “offensive” Web content just seems silly/cowardly.
How does blocking certain phrases (including such filth as “cock a hoop” and “caber tosser”)(did I just get this page banned?) make the Web search better/safer? The BBC isn’t just for children, and children aren’t protected by simplistic text filtering.