Google rolled out a new search feature today. Google account holders can now get social search results related to materials in Google+ as integrated into search results. The details are announced on the Official Google Blog in a post entitled…
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Browsing On A Sunday: Secret Contracts, Another Dean Goes, and Let It Snow
19
Dec
The story of the missing Megaupload to YouTube gets stranger as time goes on. Universal demanded of the video featuring major artists in support of Megaupload be removed. The assumption was that the takedown request was filed in accordance with…
Google Undocumented Search Operators Out of Date and Updated
07
Dec
In response to the Google undocumented operators post from Monday, Gary Price from INFODocket, as does Carol Ebbinghouse in a comment to that post notes that the Googleguide pages are not up to date. Gary reports that the pages haven’t…
Undocumented Search Operators In Google
05
Dec
Searching Google, or any search engine for that matter, almost always offers relevant results, though with a lot of noise hits thrown in just for the fun of it. I’ve always imagined how Google might benefit from using Boolean connectors…
Browsing On A Sunday: Borders Books, The Health Care Law, And The Search Market
14
Nov
Bloomberg Business Week has a lengthy analysis on the failure of Borders Books called The End of Borders and the Future of Books. The pull quote is “Borders seems to have been in the business of making mistakes.” The article…
Short Takes On The News: Some Tech, Some Scandal And Outrage, And Some Law
11
Nov
CNET has a positive review of a new reader for Google Books that is not from Google. Called GooReader, the product is described as “is a desktop application that allows you to read Google Books online and offline, add Bookmarks,…
Digital Access Isn’t Everything
09
Nov
There is a great article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) by Brian Cowan, ‘Digital Natives’ Aren’t Necessarily Digital Learners, which takes on the concept of digital natives as digital learners, and concludes that while technology may deliver…
Dead Sea Scrolls Now Online With Help From Google
26
Sep
Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online, with more coming. The Israel Museum partnered with Google to digitize the manuscripts and make them available to anyone with a web connection. The scrolls are so fragile that direct…
