Taste of the search engines for Milburn

So what do ex-government ministers in the UK do during the Silly Season, in order to pass the time?

Well, if you’re Alan Milburn, former-health minister and now MP for Darlington in the north of England, you spend lots of time with your family (because that’s why he resigned in the first place, of course) and you get involved in travel search.

Really?

Donning his “community business” hat this week, Milburn was on hand to help launch Travelsearcher, a free-form text search tool, created by local company Geo-Net.

The other chap in the photograph is managing director Peter Bulloch, and it was taken at Geo-Net’s offices, not a villa in Tuscany or Cliff Richard's Caribbean home - popular destinations amongst New Labour politicians.

[Read our exclusive story Internet users changing search habits on Travolution, featuring some research carried out by Bulloch and his team]

Kevin May, editor, Travolution