About qbzz
qbzz is an independent publication about information intelligence: how people and organisations collect, analyse, evaluate and find information.
We write practical, sourced guides for analysts, researchers, students and marketers. Each article cites its sources. We update articles when methods, tools or rules change, and each article shows the date it was last updated.
What we cover
- OSINT & Intelligence Analysis: Open-source intelligence, structured analytic techniques and how national intelligence communities organise analysis.
- Competitive Intelligence: Methods for monitoring competitors, markets and regulation, and turning signals into business decisions.
- Patent & Innovation Intelligence: Patent analytics, technology forecasting and the data behind innovation policy.
- Disinformation & Rumours: How rumours and false news spread, and what makes debunking and public communication work.
- Think Tanks & Policy Research: How think tanks produce, evaluate and sell policy research, and what makes them influential.
- Research Analytics & Bibliometrics: Bibliometrics, citation analysis, journal metrics and the evaluation of research.
- Knowledge Management & Knowledge Graphs: Knowledge organisation, knowledge graphs, ontologies and how organisations share what they know.
- Cyber & Information Security Strategy: Cyberspace strategy, information security policy and threat intelligence.
- AI, Search & Information Retrieval: How search engines and AI assistants find, rank and cite information, and what that means for publishers.
How we work
- Sources first. Claims about methods, laws or data are linked to primary sources wherever possible.
- Plain language. Technical terms are explained the first time they appear and collected in the glossary.
- AI-assisted, human-edited. We use AI tools for research and drafting. An editor checks every article, its facts and its sources before it is published.
- Corrections. If you spot an error, tell us and we will fix it and note the change.
Technology partner
qbzz is built with the support of our technology partner miraks.biz, an independent lab that publishes free web tools and guides for site builders.
Independence
qbzz is not affiliated with any government, intelligence agency or academic journal. Read the history of this domain.