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 []

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