Archive for the 'Search Engines' Category

5 Reasons Librarians are Better than Search Engines.

February 8, 2008 in Role of Librarian, Search Engines

I have long agreed with Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand.com on most things but I have to respectfully disagree with one of his recent comments with regard to Microsoft’s and Google’s book digitization projects.  Sullivan, quoted in In Microsoft vs Google, Search is True Prize published in the Guardian Unlimited on February 2, 2008 and currently available [...]

Retro Thoughts on Search Engines

October 7, 2007 in Intranets, Search Engines

Back in 1996, I worked with the Minnesota State Law Library to develop the court decisions archive for the Minnesota Appellate Court System.  After many years of working in libraries including 10 working in law firm libraries, I was finally getting my MLS and had managed to arrange an independent study that required me to study [...]