Last weekend I came across the news that Open Library was now offering full-text search for its book collection. Full-text searching for a book collection is always reason to celebrate, but I […]
In Praise of Inurl:
Writing last week’s article took me back to the early days of the Web. (I had to walk ten miles through the snow uphill to get online, you know.) Web searching was […]
Using the WordPress Search Tool
Recently a ResearchBuzz article comment mentioned WordPress, and the difficulty the comment’s author had on finding WordPress in Google News’ blog search. The comment author said: One caveat about the blog searches: they […]
Strategies for Taking a News Break When You Can’t Quit the Internet
My husband is going on vacation soon and I can’t wait. Now, let me assure you that I love him a lot. We celebrate our silver anniversary next year and he, as […]
An Experiment In Asking Questions That Mostly Failed. Twice.
I thought I was soooooo clever. I was going to go to all the question-asking sites, and ask a question, then do an article about how the different sites answered the different […]
