Google v Libraries
February 20th, 2004
The Chronicle has an opinion piece titled “The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer an Appetizing Alternative to Google.”
At the recent ALA Midwinter Conference, Roy Tenant of the California Digital Library referred to The Google Lesson: the number of results aren’t as important as how the results are presented. He said that librarians and library systems vendors have historically put more emphasis on delivering the most results instead the most relevant results. Roy dropped another jewel that partially explained this phenomenon:
“Only librarians like to search; everyone else likes to find.”