Google Newsletter for Librarians #2 available

Issue 2 of Google’s Newsletter for Librarians is available, including:

“Beyond Algorithms: A Librarian’s Guide to Finding Web Sites You Can Trust”,
Karen G. Schneider, Director, Librarians’ Internet Index

Okay, so your favorite search engine has turned up thousands of web sites on the topic of your choosing. Which ones should you trust?


“How Does Google Determine Which Web Sites Are the Most ‘Trusted’?”, Matt Cutts, Software Engineer, Google

In the debut issue of the Google Librarian newsletter, we published an article by quality engineer Matt Cutts explaining how Google collects and ranks search results. The most common question we heard in response was “How does Google determine which web sites are the most ‘trusted’?” Here, his reply…