Saturday, October 18, 2003

High Praises for Reference Librarians Geniuses at Your Fingertips. Ron Force writes "They're geniuses, and they're at your fingertipsLong-forgotten public library reference desk stocked with answers, Doug Clark says.This is the Information Age, when fact-seekers surf the cyberwaves via powerful search engines like Google, Alta Vista or the ever-popular Yahoo. Not this yahoo.When Doug needs data, he puts down the computer mouse. He picks up the telephone and dials up Dennis, Jean or Louise.Google's cool, sure. But my search engines would kick your fanny on Jeopardy.Which is why I'm taking today to sing the praises of this oft-overlooked informational resource:The library reference desk..." [LISNews.com] 12:06:11 PM      comment []    trackback []

Friday, October 17, 2003

Google Expert with More Search Tips Search Tips From Google Expert. 20 Great Google Secrets, by Tara Calishain, author of Google Hacks, offers useful suggestions to make your use of the... [via beSpacific] Which is just another reminder for me to get a copy of Google Hacks too. 3:53:33 PM      comment []    trackback []

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Google Alert Adds Features [ResearchBuzz] 5:55:20 PM      comment []    trackback []

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Don't Use Just Google but Don't Ignore It Either Don't use Google exclusively, but don't count it out, either.. David Dillard invites us to read his lengthy post on NetGold about how search engines, while not the end-all of research, do have their place in scholarly information retrieval. Specifically, he was looking for references to the term "Tourismification" in order to respond to a discussion thread in a sociology forum. He had no luck with the social science databases he normally turns to, but Google found him paydirt: Notice the Google search picked up in the first ten records sampled mostly scholarly work.... Peer reviewed literature may be much more palitable [sic] to the academic scholar in terms of its academic ethnic heritage, and the World Wide Web may be viewed as having been raised on the bad side of town. Nevertheless, not looking at all possible search tools for a topic, particularly a hard to find topic may only result in impoverishment of the search result, and we all know that low income can send publications to live in the bad side of town. [LISNews.com] 10:06:29 PM      comment []    trackback [] New Blog Search Engine It's a New Blog Search Engine: Bloogz If you can't get enough of searching Weblogs, check out Bloogz at http://www.bloogz.com/ . The front page allows you to search Weblogs in five languages (Italian, English, German, Spanish, or French.) I can't find any indication of how many 'blogs are indexed here, though there is a link to list all posts made today (look at the bottom of the screen) and right this minute there are 935 posts available. [ResearchBuzz] 10:05:25 PM      comment []    trackback []

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Donald Case wins ASIST's 2003 Best Information Science Book Award Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior This is the book I'm reading for LIS 510 / Information Behavior (University of Washington) "About the Book: Looking for Information presents examples of information seeking and reviews studies of the information-seeking behavior of both general and specific social and occupational groups: scientists, engineers, social scientists, humanists, policy experts, the aged, the poor, and "the public" in general.  It also discusses general research on information seeking, including basic research on human communication behavior as found in the literature of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and other disciplines." [Read More @ ASIS&T Mailing List Archive] 2:39:50 PM      comment []    trackback []

Sunday, September 28, 2003

Interview with a Search Engine Ever wonder what it would be like to talk with Ask Jeeves? Well, wonder no more and take a look at this interview instead! 5:43:12 PM      comment []    trackback []

Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Why the Politics of Search Engines Matters I'm currently reading Helen Nissenbaum's article, "Accountability in a Computerized Society" for the module on Accountability and Liability in my LIS550 class. Of course I wandered around the rest of her website and want to make a note to read "Shaping the Web: Why the Politics of Search Engines Matters" soonish.   7:52:30 PM      comment []    trackback []

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