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New Stuff Tuesday – March 11

Posted on March 11, 2008 by fragolap

We’re GOOgle for gadgets! We’re all becoming converts to iGoogle. If you’ve not heard of it yet iGoogle is a fabulous productivity tool that Google released a while back. It allows users to add all kinds of useful “gadgets” to … Continue reading →

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Is Google Going Down?

Posted on November 7, 2007 by kyle

Imagine your life without Google. You would have to search the interwebs using some other search engine. You wouldn’t have the discrete advertising to the right of your search results. You might actually have to come into the library for … Continue reading →

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The Disconnect Between Google and the Library

Posted on October 17, 2007 by kyle

Let’s be realistic. You search Google. That’s cool. I do too. It’s a great search engine, which is why Google commanded 53.6% of the searches in the month of July (Yahoo! was second with 19.9%). But consider this scenario: I … Continue reading →

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Google & CIC Join Forces

Posted on June 22, 2007 by kyle

Back in April, I wrote about the Google Book Project (“Google’s Book Project Keeps On Scanning”) and how the University of Michigan and UW-Madison are participating. Well, the rest of the Big Ten has jumped on the Google bandwagon. The … Continue reading →

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Google’s Book Project Keeps On Scanning

Posted on April 13, 2007 by kyle

Avid users of Google may have noticed the “Book Search” links that appear in the search results. Those links stem from the Google Book Project, the top search engine’s project to digitize the world’s printed material for all to access … Continue reading →

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