http://blisspix.net/2006/10/27/google-co-op-search-for-lis-research/ Open access, technology and social futures from a librarian in Sydney. Fri, 16 May 2008 03:39:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://blisspix.net/2006/10/27/google-co-op-search-for-lis-research/#comment-19997 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:21:32 +0000 http://blisspix.net/2006/10/27/google-co-op-search-for-lis-research/#comment-19997 [...] Google has launched Co-op, a site-specific search engine along the lines of Rollyo. Phil Bradley has a write-up, and created his own library blog search engine. Fiona Bradley has created a LIS research search engine. Over on NZ-Libs (not archived online, as far as I can tell), Sean Murgatroyd (I think, I don’t have access to the list at the moment) pointed out a darker side to Co-op: the possibility that someone could create an engine that seemingly searched innocuous, useful sites, but also searched sites that contained obscene or commercial content. Google doesn’t want people using “Google” as a generic adjective to mean “searche the web”. OK. From now on, I’m “Yahoo!ing”, even if I’m using Google or Ask. Actually, “Asking” sounds pretty good, too… [...] […] Google has launched Co-op, a site-specific search engine along the lines of Rollyo. Phil Bradley has a write-up, and created his own library blog search engine. Fiona Bradley has created a LIS research search engine. Over on NZ-Libs (not archived online, as far as I can tell), Sean Murgatroyd (I think, I don’t have access to the list at the moment) pointed out a darker side to Co-op: the possibility that someone could create an engine that seemingly searched innocuous, useful sites, but also searched sites that contained obscene or commercial content. Google doesn’t want people using “Google” as a generic adjective to mean “searche the web”. OK. From now on, I’m “Yahoo!ing”, even if I’m using Google or Ask. Actually, “Asking” sounds pretty good, too… […]

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