Archive for August 18th, 2006
A Valuable Disruption?
Two worthwhile articles on the potential impact of digitizing books – and the challenge Google has posed to concepts of copyright and fair use – are well worth a read. The Washington Post presents the Google position – isn’t it a great idea to digitize all books so they can be discovered? Gee, whiz! And [...]
Posted: 18 August, 2006 in Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
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Are Web Searchers Getting Better
Some new research coming out of the University of Indiana in Bloomington suggests that search engine users are improving their results as evidenced by their use of more search terms. This would seem to contradict earlier research that indicates that 6 out of 10 search engine users never use more than one word in their [...]
Posted: 18 August, 2006 in Research Issues.
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