A while ago I reported on the Pew Internet Project’s November 2005 report on increased use of search engines. Here’s what I had to say at the time:
On an average day, about 94 million American adults use the internet; 77% will use email, 63% will use a search engine.
Among all the online activities tracked, including [...]

Posted January 8, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: internet, internet usage, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library evolution, library usage, library20, online activities, online behavior, online libraries, online library, pew internet and american life project, pew internet project, search engine, search engine use, search engines, web searching. Be the first one.

So, the report was released Monday, and it’s actually titled Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), but the part I’m highlighting here is the results of the question that asked users to compare their experiences with search engines against their experiences with libraries.
Here’s the quesiton:
Satisfaction with the Librarian and the Search Engine — by [...]

Posted December 6, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: compare, future, google, google economy, internet, libraries, library, library 2.0, library20, oclc, oclc report, perception, perceptions, Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (200, report, search engine, search engines, user behavior. 4 Comments.

According to the recently released Pew Internet report on online activities:
On an average day, about 94 million American adults use the internet; 77% will use email, 63% will use a search engine.
Among all the online activities tracked, including chatting and IMing, reading blogs or news, banking, and buying, not one of them includes searching a [...]

Posted November 23, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: google, google vs. the opac, libraries, library, library catalog, opac, pew internet, pew internet and american life project, report, search engine, search engines. 10 Comments.

A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, does some pretty interesting things that libraries should be aware of. First, any library considering a metasearch product should look at what can be done for free, and second, libraries should take a look at the OpenSearch technology that drives it.
So now, when searching for Harry Potter, you’ll also [...]

Posted October 21, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: a9, lamson library, metasearch, michigan state university, opensearch, plymouth state university, ryan eby, search engine, search engines, search technology, seattle public library, university, web search, websearch, xslt. Be the first one.

Peter Morville, author of Ambient Findability, stirred up the web4lib email list with a message about Authority and Findability. His message is about how services like Wikipedia and Google are changing our global information architecture and the meaning of “authority.”
The reaction was quick, and largely critical, but good argument tests our thinking and weeds the [...]

Posted October 12, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: authority, citation analysis, findability, google, google economy, libraries, library, library systems, quality data, research methods, search, search engine, search engines, web opac, wikipedia. 2 Comments.

Search Engine Watch did a story about how to use Google and Amazon’s tools to search full-text content inside books.
The gist? when you can get to the tools and where they’ve got content, it does a lot to make books as accessible and open as electronic content.
Sort of related: I’ve spoken of Google Print before [...]

Posted July 17, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: amazon, book search, electronic content, full text content, google, google print, inside books, search engine, search engine watch, search full text, search inside the book. Be the first one.