Thursday, June 12, 2008

search engines galore

goldfinch from flicker -ibm4381's photostream


I regularly use Yahoo because I am often looking for a publisher or business. Because they use a "tree system" for catagorizing their items, the businesses will pop up first.

I spend a fair amount of time on Google especially when I cannot find a title requested by a patron. I find it easier to find something specific like a title there. When I was selecting the International Collection, I occasionally used the translate function. It comes up with some really strange English phrases.


I used to use Ask.com a long time ago. It seemed to become less useful over time. I think now that it has been updated, I am willing to try it again.

Dogpile.com would be useful thing for those "I can't verify" titles. I tried searching Cairn terriers and got a wide variety things.

The American goldfinch picture above appealed to me because that is the look they give when the feeder is empty. I feel like they're saying "hey lady, what gives, where's our food".





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