Comments on: How to “Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell You” http://www.librarian.net/stax/2201/how-to-get-more-from-the-web-than-google-will-tell-you/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:29:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Phil Bradley http://www.librarian.net/stax/2201/how-to-get-more-from-the-web-than-google-will-tell-you/comment-page-1/#comment-111255 Phil Bradley Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:48:16 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2201/how-to-get-more-from-the-web-than-google-will-tell-you/#comment-111255 Yes, it's a good article, though I'd question the point "If a URL ends in .edu, .gov or .org, you can bet the information you’ll find there is primary. Primary sources are more authoritative than secondary sources" Clearly .org sites are nothing of the kind. Students may also have an .edu account, and I wouldn't call their work 'authoritative' either. Also, if you're going to include .edu it makes sense to include .ac as well, since that's more widely used (unless you're looking at a purely US perspective of course). I was also surprised to see that Pinakes wasn't mentioned, which provides as good quality data as the WWW Vlib, and the Librarians' Internet Index was also missing in action. Yes, it’s a good article, though I’d question the point “If a URL ends in .edu, .gov or .org, you can bet the information you’ll find there is primary. Primary sources are more authoritative than secondary sources” Clearly .org sites are nothing of the kind. Students may also have an .edu account, and I wouldn’t call their work ‘authoritative’ either. Also, if you’re going to include .edu it makes sense to include .ac as well, since that’s more widely used (unless you’re looking at a purely US perspective of course).

I was also surprised to see that Pinakes wasn’t mentioned, which provides as good quality data as the WWW Vlib, and the Librarians’ Internet Index was also missing in action.

]]> By: Search tips for the internet « Regis University ED205 Research Blog http://www.librarian.net/stax/2201/how-to-get-more-from-the-web-than-google-will-tell-you/comment-page-1/#comment-111108 Search tips for the internet « Regis University ED205 Research Blog Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:39 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2201/how-to-get-more-from-the-web-than-google-will-tell-you/#comment-111108 [...] you’ll find some repetition in this article with some of our previous posts, but librarians Jessamyn West and Anne Cullen provide some great tips on searching for information on the [...] [...] you’ll find some repetition in this article with some of our previous posts, but librarians Jessamyn West and Anne Cullen provide some great tips on searching for information on the [...]

]]> By: How to “Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell You” « NYLA-SMART http://www.librarian.net/stax/2201/how-to-get-more-from-the-web-than-google-will-tell-you/comment-page-1/#comment-111093 How to “Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell You” « NYLA-SMART Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:20:09 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2201/how-to-get-more-from-the-web-than-google-will-tell-you/#comment-111093 [...] by Ken Fujiuchi on November 27, 2007 via librarian.net, talking about this [...] [...] by Ken Fujiuchi on November 27, 2007 via librarian.net, talking about this [...]

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