Archive for the tag "search engines"
They Need Us, They Really Need Us
Yesterday morning a friend’s retweet caught my eye. Apparently last week the productivity blog Lifehacker ran a survey in which readers were asked whether Google’s search results seemed increasingly full of spam and less useful. About 10,000 Lifehacker readers took the survey, and the top responses were eye-opening: Nearly 34% of those who replied chose: [...]
Posted: 13 January, 2011 in Information Literacy, Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Tags: Google, library instruction, search engines, usability
Comments: 5
In Google They Trust
An interesting article swam through my Twitterstream recently that’s a perfect complement to the Project Information Literacy report that Barbara mentioned last week. It’s a recent publication of research by the Web Use Project led by Eszter Hargittai, a professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. The article, Trust Online: Young Adults’ Evaluation of Web [...]
Posted: 25 July, 2010 in Google, Information Literacy, Student Issues.
Tags: search engines, student research, website evaluation
Comments: 4
