Just in case you ever wondered how those skeptical, evaluative, critical thinking skills as applied to web sites (skills that you practice often in library instruction classes) would have anything to do with real life, read this blog post about Google and the financial consequences of outdated, incorrect information. It’s a sobering account of a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘google’
December 6, 2006
no more google answers
We told you about it before right here: Google Answers and “human-powered search.”
Well, Google Answers, where anyone could post a question and specify how much they would pay for an answer and then “expert online researchers” would answer the question for a fee, is over. After only a handful of months, it’s already “so long.”
And, [...]
October 23, 2006
access to articles via google scholar
Are you a fan of Google Scholar, that Google-special search of scholarly literature in many disciplines? If so, you may have noticed access to available full-text journals through your association with Moravian College. Let me show you what I mean.
I went to Google Scholar and did this search: moravian bethlehem. Toward the bottom of the [...]
September 28, 2006
find a book in our library via google
For you Google aficionados out there, you can now use the Google Book Search to find a book in a library near you, even our college’s library.
So, for example, if I go to the Google Book Search and type in “mississippi flood 1927,” a list of various publications comes up. I can click on any [...]
September 12, 2006
“human-powered search”
Here’s an article for you introducing some crazy, wild, new search engine.
“Rethinking Google’s System: Human-Powered Search” by Ryan Kim, San Francisco Chronicle
And, here’s the gimmick, the big idea, the revolutionary design: actual people answering questions for folks who need help finding information online. Hmmmm, sound familiar to anyone??
Let’s see, librarians have been doing this since [...]
