Google and Beyond: Researching on the Web Tom Casserly Linda Plunket April 10, 2008.

Google and Beyond: Researching on the Web

Tom Casserly

Linda PlunketApril 10, 2008

What is Google?It is a very profitable for-profit company

With An Immodest Mission

“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

World Domination?

“6. You can make money without doing evil.”

http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

And how will they do this?

And where does that put you?

Anything hidden?

How about BU’s students?

And anyway, just how does all that good stuff in Google get there? Let’s take a look-

How’s it going to get there without a librarian?

“a diligent librarian and the power of technology, their long-silent voices could speak directly…”

Trial by FireDavid von Drehle

Smithsonian Magazine, August 2006