Search Engines
Thursday 25 November 2025
- Google Scholar - Commentary by Jay Bhatt - :: Jay Bhatt, writing on ELDNET-L, offers the following detailed analysis of Google Scholar. His comments are posted here with his permission, and are well worth the read:There are (at least eight) areas that the present version of Google Scholar... (12:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)
Friday 19 November 2025
- EEVL Announces New Subject Specific Ejournal Search Engines - :: Four new search engines, indexing freely available e-journals published in computing science, engineering, mathematics, and all three subjects together, are now available from EEVL, the "Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing." The four engines are:Computing: searches the content... (10:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 18 November 2025
- Google Scholar (Beta) - :: In case you haven't heard, Google has released its latest product, Google Scholar:Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use... (11:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 12 November 2025
- Librarians Vs Technology - :: In the Nov-Dec 2004 issue of Information Highways, from the e-Content institute, is an interesting article on how librarians need to deal with the belief of so many people that if it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist. The... (09:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 13 October 2025
- All of OCLC’s WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web - :: Some months ago, I wrote about Yahoo! and Google's inclusion of OCLC WorldCat records. In 2003, Barbara Quint wrote of the OCLC test project, where approximately 2 million of the 53 million+ records on OCLC WorldCat were made available... (14:39 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 20 September 2025
- News Items of Interest from Information Today - Amazon Launches A9.com Search Site A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., has launched A9.com to make searching the Internet more effective. The new site builds on a beta test version the company introduced in April 2004 that offered Google... (10:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 22 April 2025
- Google vs Science Direct vs Bibliographic Databases vs Laziness - :: Dana forwarded an interesting e-mail recently that noted the following:Dr. John J. Regazzi, the Managing Director of Market Development at Elsevier gave the keynote address at the NFAIS annual meeting in February. Links to his text and slides are... (12:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 13 April 2025
- Google Teams Up With 17 Colleges to Test Searches of Scholarly Materials - :: From The Chronicle of Higher Education:Google, the popular search-engine company, has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world to provide a way to search the institutions' collections of scholarly papers, according... (09:10 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 5 November 2025
- 20 Google Secrets - :: From Rita Vine's Sitelines: Tara Calishain, creator of ResearchBuzz, has written a short article called 20 Great Google Secrets. Many of these tips would be of use to us when helping our students search on the web. Like most... (19:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 18 August 2025
- Google Update - :: Many of us use Google in library and research skills instruction. A number of good reviews and writeups have appeared on the web recently.Greg Notess' 18 August 2025 review of Google includes mention of databases covered, strengths and weaknesses,... (15:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)