Friday, November 20, 2009

Google specialist search engines

1.I searched Blinx and Youtube for 'Only fools and horses'. Youtube had 1,790 results including multiple entries of the same videos; random layout of entries was rather confusing. Blinx, however, had a very clear page showing a list of all the episodes within each series, more like an organised catalogue, which I found easier to use.

2.Under magazines in Google book search, I chose 'Organic gardening' and entered 'zucchini' ( no entries under courgettes ). The result was page after page of the magazine with the word 'zucchini' highlighted where it appeared. This was very clunky having to scroll down looking for a word, instead of being led straight to relevant articles.
I then chose 'Yoga journal' and searched for 'sun salutation'. Initial results were more appealing - a large thumbnail of the page with the search term highlighted and the page number to click on taking you straight to the article.

The magazine searh could be useful for patrons wanting to recall a certain article from a magazine, so long as it was one of the titles listed and there aren't very many at this stage.

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