Comments on: What’s the minimum for competitive intelligence?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:16:57 +0000

For some more tips, you might want to check out an earlier post of mine – on using Copernic

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:47:01 +0000

Wow. That was GREAT advice! Thanks – I figured this software had to be better than what I was getting. Excellent.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:06:54 +0000

My experience with Copernic has been wtih the professional version, which may have more features than the version you’re using, but one of the keys to Copernic is to make sure the number of results per engine is high – more than 100. Also, turn on the link analysis, to remove bad links, duplicate links, and additional searching if necessary – this is where the real power of Copernic is leveraged.

If you only take 10 results per engine, and just collect the hits, I agree – it’s not much better than Google.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:06:18 +0000

My experience with Copernic has been that it’s not nearly as “sophisticated” as I wish it was. With all of the different sections, you’re left with the idea that it will find a lot more than Google, but that hasn’t generally been the case with me. Instead, I get the same 50 links Google finds, but have to click on different sections to find them.

Nice link to the Allen blog.