Neuroscience
Find fun Google techniques on Google's cheat sheet. Finally, some kind of proximity searching with this technique: red * blue. The asterisk, they say, will help find "the words red and blue separated by exactly one word."
- Googling For Academic Medical Research
Google has announced and is online (beta version) with an academic search engine called "Google Scholar" - which "enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical...
- Google & Ill-formed Searches
Great article in the online journal Library Philosophy and Practice (LPP) ("a peer-reviewed electronic journal that publishes articles exploring the connection between library practice and the philosophy and theory behind it.") about using Google in the...
- Pigeon Clusters (pcs)
According to this Google press release, they use pigeon clusters (PCs) to "compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms." This is called "Pigeon Rank", and here's how it works: "When a search query...
- Google Answers -- So Do Librarians
Last week, American Public Media's Future Tense had a show on Google Answers (hear in RealAudio. The blurb on their site says: "Would you be surprised to learn that Google employs a stable of freelance researchers who answer questions for a fee? Google...
- Google On 60 Minutes
There was a cool interview with Google inventors & others at the Googleplex on Sunday's 60 Minutes. The transcript is interesting reading & is available via LexisNexis (search for GOOGLE and 60 MINUTES here (Hampshire community only) or let me know...
Neuroscience
Google "Cheat Sheet"
Find fun Google techniques on Google's cheat sheet. Finally, some kind of proximity searching with this technique: red * blue. The asterisk, they say, will help find "the words red and blue separated by exactly one word."
- Googling For Academic Medical Research
Google has announced and is online (beta version) with an academic search engine called "Google Scholar" - which "enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical...
- Google & Ill-formed Searches
Great article in the online journal Library Philosophy and Practice (LPP) ("a peer-reviewed electronic journal that publishes articles exploring the connection between library practice and the philosophy and theory behind it.") about using Google in the...
- Pigeon Clusters (pcs)
According to this Google press release, they use pigeon clusters (PCs) to "compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms." This is called "Pigeon Rank", and here's how it works: "When a search query...
- Google Answers -- So Do Librarians
Last week, American Public Media's Future Tense had a show on Google Answers (hear in RealAudio. The blurb on their site says: "Would you be surprised to learn that Google employs a stable of freelance researchers who answer questions for a fee? Google...
- Google On 60 Minutes
There was a cool interview with Google inventors & others at the Googleplex on Sunday's 60 Minutes. The transcript is interesting reading & is available via LexisNexis (search for GOOGLE and 60 MINUTES here (Hampshire community only) or let me know...