Meta-search engines use the resources of many different
search engines to gather the most results possible. Many
of these will also eliminate duplicates and classify
results to enhance your search experience.
The report (PDF), sponsored by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee, tries to get beyond the stereotypes to find out just how good young people are with information technology, and what the implications are for schools and libraries. Based on log analysis from British Library web sites and search tools, along with a "virtual" longitudinal study based on literature review
The ability to effectively search and locate information on the Internet is an important skill for education and essential for success in the 21st century. The results from a single search task can produce an overwhelming amount of information. Without the new literacy skills and strategies that the process of searching and locating information on the Internet requires, this can quickly become a d
G-Portal is a digital library research program supported by the Center for Research in Pedagogical Practices (CRPP) of Singapore's National Institute of Education (NIE). The program aims to develop a digital library portal for harnessing distributed geography learning objects and providing the essential tools to support active learning. The G-Portal team consists of researchers from the Education, Computer Science, and Information Science disciplines. The team has so far realised a Java-based portal for managing, visualizing and sharing metadata of geography objects, as well as using them to support various learning activities. This article summarizes the main accomplishments of the research program and its impact on geography education. The future research directions of G-Portal and the associated challenges will also be highlighted.
Social bookmarking is an emerging type of a Web service that helps users share, classify, and discover interesting resources. In this paper, we explore the concept of an enhanced search, in which data from social bookmarking systems is exploited for enhancing search in the Web. We propose combining the widely used link-based ranking metric with the one derived using social bookmarking data. First, this increases the precision of a standard link-based search by incorporating popularity estimates from aggregated data of bookmarking users. Second, it provides an opportunity for extending the search capabilities of existing search engines. Individual contributions of bookmarking users as well as the general statistics of their activities are used here for a new kind of a complex search where contextual, temporal or sentiment-related information is used. We investigate the usefulness of social bookmarking systems for the purpose of enhancing Web search through a series of experiments done on datasets obtained from social bookmarking systems. Next, we show the prototype system that implements the proposed approach and we present some preliminary results.
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There are a lot of things you and your students can do to improve search results in Google. Did you know the search engine will also function as a calculator? See this quick reference page for some search tips and tricks.
The technology that almost took the library's power away is now giving it back.
Anthony Hodge and Bastiaan Zwaan explore and reveal the opportunities for the library itself, as well as the library realm, to verify and promote the library as the epicenter and sole institution qualified to provide and safeguard our knowledge. The library with a public, regional responsibility is here to stay.
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