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Sci7 on Google and government documents

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

Mary (Maggie) Farrell, Dean of Libraries at the University of Wyoming USA recently wrote an editorial in Government Information Quarterly (Vol. 22 (2005) 143–145)) entitled : “Google and government documents”.
The editorial discusses Google Print, and its aims to digitise the collections of major libraries. Google’s efforts are seen as more significant than those […]

The influence of task and gender on search and evaluation behaviour using Google.

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

This is Sci7’s review of an article by Lori Lorigo, Bing Pan, Helene Hembrooke, Thorsten Joachims, Laura Granka, and Geri Gay to be published in the Journal “Information Processing and Management”, these comments and observations are made on a corrected proof “Article in Press”. The authors are from Cornell and Stanford Universities, and the research […]

Frequency of occurrence of numbers in the World Wide Web

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

In July of 2005 S.N. Dorogovtseva, J.F.F. Mendesa and J.G. Oliveira published the results of an experiment in which they put every number from 0 to 100 000 into Google, noted the number of results obtained. The paper states this research was (amazingly to Sci7) partially supported by grant money. Citation: Physica A 360 (2006) […]

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