Life Beyond Google
April 14, 2008
An excellent article in FUMSI by Mary Ellen Bates was published in March: "Life Beyond Google: Some of the Best of the Rest." I knew about half of the alternative search engines she mentioned, but happily learned about a few new ones, including SearchCrystal.com, a metasearch engine with visual results. As librarians, we need to know about all of the tools at our disposal for finding information: including non-basic search engines. Depending on the user’s need, some of these tools will work a lot better and a lot faster. Know your toolbox!
July 5th, 2011 at 7:19 pm
[...] important thing to remember is not to rely on one tool for everything – closed-loop social networks are good for keeping in touch with friends, but [...]