Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Library + Search Engine


Inside Indiana U's Move to ChaCha
University to bolster research with guided search functionality
8/8/2007
By Linda L Briggs

"Indiana University's alliance with search firm ChaCha, announced last week, may portend how universities, librarians, and Internet search engines will work together in the future. The arrangement points up how librarians or other experts can add huge value to scholarly searches through so-called "guided searches" by stepping in to offer access to vast amounts of material--and expertise--that conventional search engines don't touch."



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