LIS 520 Janes
readings &
resources
Finding
Information on the Internet (UC Berkeley Library)
The History of
Search seo.com infographic
Aula,
Khan, and Guan, “How
Does Search Behavior Change as Search Becomes More Difficult?” CHI 2010
Etzioni,
Oren, “Search
Needs a Shake-Up” Nature 8/4/11
(will require proxy authentication)
Madrigal,
Alexis, “Inside
the Google Books Algorithm”, Atlantic
11/1/10
Thompson,
Clive, “What
Is I.B.M.’s Watson?” New York Times Magazine 6/16/11
3
Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect
readwriteweb 11/12/09
“Search Takes
a Social Turn” New York Times 9/12/10
Google
Explores Re-Ranking Search Results Using +1 Button Data wired.com
Bing: Explore, Advanced Operators
Twitter
Search Engines David Lee King
Google’s
War on Nonsense New York Times Opinionator blog
6/26/11
Google
Analytics for Libraries Joe Morgan (PDF)
questions to
prepare for class discussion
coming soon….
older
stuff
OCLC White Paper on the Information Habits of
College Students, “How Academic Librarians Can Influence Students’
Web-Based Information Choices”, July 2002 (pdf)
“Trying
to Elude the Google Grasp”, New York
Times 7/25/2002
Price, Gary, “Specialized Search
Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues”, Searcher 10 (9), 42-47, October 2002
Mostafa, Javed,
“Seeking
Better Web Searches”, Scientific
American 1/24/05
Hof, “Is
Google Too Powerful?” Business Week 4/9/07
Pan, et al (2007). In Google we trust: Users'
decisions on rank, position, and relevance. Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication, 12(3), article 3.
Search Engine
Use Pew Internet & American Life Project 2008
Carr,
David, “How
Good (or Not Evil) Is Google? New York Times 6/22/09
Roussinov,
et al. “Beyond Keywords: Automated Question Answering on the Web”,
Communications of the ACM 51(9),
September 2008 (authentication/proxy required)
Jansen, et al. “Brand
and its Effect on User Perception of Search Engine Performance”, JASIST 60 (8), 2009.
Cascio,
Jamais, “Get Smarter”,
Atlantic July/August 2009
“Google to
Build State-Run Search Engine” New
York Times 8/13/10
(optional)
Janes, Joseph, “Fundamentals of Searching Digital Resources”,
(PDF) Chapter 1 of The Internet Searcher’s Handbook, by Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld and Joseph Janes; revised by GraceAnne A. DeCandido (New
York: Neal-Schuman), 1999.
Morville,
Peter, “In
Defense of Search”, Digital Web
July 2002
Bates,
Marcia, “After
the Dot-Bomb: Getting Web Information
Retrieval Right This Time”, First
Monday 7 (7), July 2002