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Vine, Rita – Teacher Librarian, 2004
With more than 4 billion web pages in its database, Google is suitable for many different kinds of searches. When you know what you are looking for, Google can be a pretty good first choice, as long as you want to search a word pattern that can be expected to appear on any results pages. The problem starts when you don't know exactly what you're…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Internet, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy
Liaw, Shu-Sheng – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2004
Search engines have been developed for helping learners to seek online information. Based on theory of planned behaviour approach, this research intends to investigate the behaviour of using search engines as a learning tool. After factor analysis, the results suggest that perceived satisfaction of search engine, search engines as an information…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Factor Analysis, Internet

Gunn, Holly – Teacher Librarian, 2005
Alert services are a great way of keeping abreast of topics that interest you. Rather than searching the Web regularly to find new content about your areas of interest, an alert service keeps you informed by sending you notices when new material is added to the Web that matches your registered search criteria. Alert services are examples of push…
Descriptors: Internet, Selective Dissemination of Information, Information Retrieval, Search Engines
Bell, Steven J. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2006
Internet search has become a routine computing activity, with regular visits to a search engine--usually Google--the norm for most people. The vast majority of searchers, as recent studies of Internet search behavior reveal, search only in the most basic of ways and fail to avail themselves of options that could easily and effortlessly improve…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Internet, Online Searching, Navigation (Information Systems)
Baksik, Corinna – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006
The Google Book Search Library Project, in which millions of books from libraries will be scanned and made searchable on the Web, has led to controversy and legal action. Publishers are suing Google for copyright infringement, while Google claims their use falls under the fair use privilege of the "Copyright Act". An overview of the library…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Internet, Electronic Publishing, Online Searching
Coyle, Karen – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2006
Mass digitization of the bound volumes that we generally call "books" has begun, and, thanks to the interest in Google and all that it does, it is getting widespread media attention. The Open Content Alliance (OCA), a library initiative formed after Google announced its library book digitization project, has brought library digitization projects…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Libraries, Search Engines, Internet
Journell, Wayne – Social Education, 2009
One of the primary goals of social studies education in the United States is to prepare students for civically active, politically informed, and socially engaged democratic citizenship. Too often, however, the curricula fall short of this goal. Textbooks and state curriculum standards tend to portray citizenship as a static concept rather than an…
Descriptors: Propaganda, Textbooks, Democracy, Elections
George, Mary W. – Princeton University Press, 2008
To do solid academic research, college students need to look beyond the computer search engine. This short, practical book introduces students to the important components of the information-seeking process. "The Elements of Library Research" provides a foundation for success in any research assignment, from a freshman paper to a senior thesis.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, College Libraries, Search Engines, Library Research

Thelwall, Mike; Wilkinson, David – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Explains how the Web can be modeled as a mathematical graph and analyzes the graph structures of three national university publicly indexable Web sites from Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Topics include commercial search engines and academic Web link research; method-analysis environment and data sets; and power laws. (LRW)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphs, Higher Education, Search Engines
Watters, Carolyn; Amoudi, Ghada – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2002
Discusses search engines and describes a prototype system that provides dynamic ranking of search engine results for geospatial queries based on the URL of the host site. Evaluates this approach using user queries and random Web pages, making a contribution to Web retrieval by providing an alternative ranking order for search engine results.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Geography, Information Retrieval, Search Engines

Fagan, Jody Condit – Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2002
Describes an analysis of the search engine logs of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale's library to determine how patrons used the site search. Discusses results that showed patrons did not understand the function of the search and explains improvements that were made in the Web site and in online reference services. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Services, Reference Services

Craven, Timothy C. – Libres, 2001
Random samples of 1,872 Web pages registered with Yahoo! And 1,638 pages reachable from Yahoo!-registered pages were analyzed for use of meta tags and specifically those containing descriptions. Results: 727 (38.8%) of the Yahoo!-registered pages and 442 (27%) of the other pages included descriptions in meta tages. Some descriptions greatly…
Descriptors: Electronic Text, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Online Searching

Spink, Amanda; Ozmutlu, H. Cenk – Information Processing & Management, 2002
Provides results from a study that examined queries in question format submitted to two Web search engines, Ask Jeeves and Excite. Identifies four types of user Web queries: keyword, Boolean, question, and request; discusses implications for Web search services; and suggests further research needs. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Keywords, Online Searching, Research Needs, Search Engines

Bar-Ilan, Judit – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Introduces methods for evaluating Web search engine performance over a time period. Describes the necessary setup for such studies, illustrates the use of these measures through a specific example, and recommends the use of the measures as a guideline for testing and improving search engine functionality. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Measurement Techniques, Online Searching

Masterson-Krum, Hope – Teacher Librarian, 2001
Examines search tools available to elementary and secondary school students, both human-compiled and crawler-based, to help direct them to age-appropriate Web sites; analyzes the procedures of search engines labeled family-friendly or kid safe that use filters; and tests the effectiveness of these services to students in school libraries. (LRW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Libraries, Search Engines, Search Strategies