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Friday, September 26, 2003 |
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Search Engine Robot
Wanted: a search engine that feels our pain. Anna sends along this interesting piece from from the Albany (NY) Times Union. In lieu of learning effective search strategies, students want search engines that will read their minds and give them the results they're looking for. The story specifically looks at results that were returned from students searching for Holocaust information.
"Students don't want to go to the library anymore, they want to go to the computer and have it act like a librarian. But a librarian wouldn't put a book about white supremacy on the bookshelves, presenting it like it's an argument."
[LISNews.com]
Another quote from the article: "We're still a little way off from when the Internet can be your co-worker and where you can talk to it and have it bring you all the right information," he said. "Hopefully, it will happen in our lifetimes."
In the meantime, honing our genuine intelligence (and computer literacy) may be the best way to get the Internet to respond in kind, ...
Learning to ask the right questions, when it comes to search engines, is a start. On the other hand, humans are generally pretty lazy. If we can get a minimal result from a minimal effort, we'll go with it, or so my students seem to think. :-)
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