Google Guide is a site that helps nvoice and experienced users learn more about how to effectively use Google. The author has written How to do Everything with Google and has released this tutorial site under a Creative Commons license. Apparently she did some serious research on Google Answers to prepare.
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govdocs libraries via P2P
Meanwhile, while the DoJ’s memo trying to get depository documents destroyed has made the big time, OutragedModerates.org is offering goverment documents via P2P networks, including a draft of PATRIOT II, a DoJ report on USA PATRIOT Act violations and the 9/11 Commission’s report. Please check out Download for Democracy. Remember: “the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”
we all remember those days, right?
librarians against bush blog
The Librarians Against Bush web site now has its own blog. [thanks pam]
are advertiser-supported search engines really giving us the answers we need?
Search Engines: Clogged with Commerce and Begging for an Upgrade asks whether our search engine results are being clogged with for-profit sites at the expense of solid information. For commerce sites can afford good design, placement and Googleability. Can your local community-based center?
“The consensus opinion across all these sources is that families should seek local, community-based programs that treat the whole family, not just the teen. And luckily, plenty of community-based programs are available…. I was stunned to discover that none of this information appeared when I searched on the phrase ‘troubled teen’ at Google and Yahoo, even when I waded through 100 search results at each site. Instead, I was confronted with a staggering number of listings all pointing to one commercial option: coercive residential treatment centers (RTCs) that include boot camps, wilderness programs or behavior modification programs.”