But it’s all free on Google Maintaining the quality of information Learning Resources Forum, City College Plymouth 16 th November 2012 Karen Blakeman [email protected], http://www.rba.co.uk/ Twitter: @karenblakeman 03/07/22 www.rba.co.uk 1 This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
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But it’s all free on GoogleMaintaining the quality of information
Learning Resources Forum, City College Plymouth16th November 2012
What others at your IP address have searched for and looked at
Who is in your social networks
Likes, +1s, blocked pages and sites
What you’ve shared with others
What others have shared
What you had for breakfast, is there an ‘r’ in the month, is there a full moon tonight.......
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Two major changes
Google no longer looks for all of your words in a page
No more "+" sign in Google web search to force an exact
match search
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Biggest change of all
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“...combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience."
"we're more excited than ever to build a seamless social experience, all
across Google"
Toward a simpler, more beautiful Google http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/toward-simpler-more-beautiful-google.html
Very good that Google Scholar covers Open Access journals, but Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have had to weed out 188 titles that were of poor quality.
Even Hartmann Flood førstebibliotekar, UBiT, NTNU, Trondheim
“Google Scholar på godt og vondt” Foredrag på fagreferentkonferansen 7/6 2012 http://folk.ntnu.no/flood/foredrag/gsfagref.ppt (in Norwegian so use Google translations)