Archive for February 9th, 2006
What Google Teaches
Pamela Martin, in her article “Google as teacher†in February 2006 College and Research Libraries News contends that Google teaches its users to only look at the first page of results, to have difficulty broadening searches, and to feel stupid if they can’t find information quickly. In The World is Flat, Tom Friedman contends that [...]
Posted: 9 February, 2006 in Student Issues, Technology Issues, Top Issues.
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Bowling A Googly…Say What
Maybe it’s just my cultural ignorance or that I’m hardly an Anglophile, but I had no clue about the reference to “bowling a googly” in this article about Google and the challenges/opportunities it presents to academic libraries that appears in the latest issue of Ariadne – which happens to be a special 10th anniversary issue. [...]
Posted: 9 February, 2006 in Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
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