Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World
"For the last few years, librarians have increasingly seen people use online search sites not to supplement research libraries but to replace them. Yet only recently have librarians stopped lamenting the trend and started working to close the gap between traditional scholarly research and the incomplete, often random results of a Google search."
Does anyone go to the library for research anymore? A lot of times there's no need. The problem is Google (or any other search engine) routinely misses billions of web pages that aren't in their index, not to mention all the documents that aren't even on the web yet. Librarians are worried that researchers are missing valuable information as they bypass traditional sources for the "easy" Google way of research.
Read the article from the New York Times
Does anyone go to the library for research anymore? A lot of times there's no need. The problem is Google (or any other search engine) routinely misses billions of web pages that aren't in their index, not to mention all the documents that aren't even on the web yet. Librarians are worried that researchers are missing valuable information as they bypass traditional sources for the "easy" Google way of research.
Read the article from the New York Times
posted by Dave @ 8:43 AM
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