Pleasant Communication

One of the good things I have found in my new position is that there is an internal library blog, and that that blog is well used. It means I have another place to consider when I find something I want to blog about. I may of course simply repeat posts across venues, but then I [...]

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Google Instant – A New Revolution

What can you do with the saved time? Google certainly do push the boundaries. Really it’s quite an interesting development, and if you look at the figures Google has put out below, and start doing some math, you get a picture of just how much dominance Google has as the search engine of choice.  The [...]

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Google: Do No Evil But We Own Your Soul

This is a story for those of you out there like me who find some elements of the new paradigm of everything been stored out there on the web for free a worry. When Google Owns You – A New Chapter Almost two years ago, I wrote When Google Owns You, about what happened with [...]

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Get your goggles on

OK OK so I know that there are fears being raised about stalking using google’s new goggles service but… But… … ain’t it the coolest thing ever? I admit I have raised myself on a steady diet of science fiction, but I seriously like the idea of the kind of context that I hunger for [...]

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A medium of stupidity or intelligence?

Some of you may have read the article “Is Google making us stupid?”.  In it Nicholas Carr says the the internet is affecting his memory and powers of concentration.  Information is quick to find through a few clicks from Google “tripping from link to link to link” so that he gets sidetracked and distracted and [...]

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The other search engine(s)

Lately we’ve been hearing a lot about Microsoft’s new search engine Bing and Wolfram Alpha (which, to be fair, is not a search engine).  I’m as guilty as anyone in always searching on Google while, at the same time, wondering if there’s an alternative which is just as good if not better. There are some [...]

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