On 6/12/06, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> Asking a machine *is* vastly different from asking a human, there's
> no way around that, and particulary, if what you toss into the slot
> is not actually a question but a mere two or three character strings.
> What is it that people now do learn when using Google, and is that
> enough, can it be enough, ought it be enough, for catalogs? Is it
> enough, coming to think of it, for Google itself? If not, what is
> it, and should libraries bother?
Google almost never gives me the right answer on the first try, but
it's very straight-forward to use, very fast, and I'm pretty darn sure
my answer is in there somewhere. Those things combined give me
incentive to keep trying and make it easy for me to repeatedly guess
what will dig out the response I want and refine that guess.
Received on Mon Jun 12 2006 - 09:46:11 EDT