Combing the Internet for Google Alternatives

Pete writes “BBC contributor Bill Thompson says here
‘Having made it my New Year resolution to break my addiction to Google and get better at searching the web, I have spent the last couple of weeks looking at the state of search and alternative places to go.'” Thompson says that his area of research is super current, and that books and libraries are not options.

January 3, 2004 by Uncategorized 5

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  1. Anonymous Patron says:
    January 3, 2004 at 2:24 am

    Choo Choo Chump
    Yawn…when you’ve mastered every search
    engine and peered into the depths of
    every visible or hidden source of info
    on the web you STILL have not reach the
    peak of peaks of cool difficult to find
    challenging elusive information UNTIL
    you’ve searched for stuff you can’t find
    on a computer…that’s right
    UNTIL you’ve looked and looked and looked
    and asked eccentric guardians of info
    and physically travelled to the odd
    obscure places that treasures are hidden and
    surpassed all the obstacles
    that protect them… and been up to your
    ecstatic elbows in dusty musty old
    papers and books that no one has touched for
    a century…you are not really truly a MASTER OF THE INFORMATION UNIVERSE!

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  2. Anonymous Patron says:
    January 4, 2004 at 4:50 am

    Re:Choo Choo Chump
    Did you read the article? The writer seems more knowledgeable about the online world than many librarians. Why does he deserve a dismissive putdown?

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  3. crow says:
    January 5, 2004 at 10:52 pm

    While he doesn’t deserve a dismissive putdown…
    it does sound like someone needs to inform him about the concept of libraries with journal database subscriptions. I wonder if he totally neglects journal articles, buys hard copies, or pays per article through a commercial service? He knows a lot about the net, but I’m not convinced he knows libraries as well as he thinks he does.

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  4. rteeter says:
    January 6, 2004 at 2:56 am

    Rerun
    This article was on LIS News http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/22/071 7239.

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  5. rteeter says:
    January 6, 2004 at 2:59 am

    Re:Rerun
    No, it wasn’t, sorry. Same guy, similar theme, different article.

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