Re: Relevance ranking: was Aqua Brow

From: Jason Etheridge <phasefx_at_nyob>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:04:06 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
On Jan 6, 2008 10:37 AM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>   I'm not defending Google, or saying it's better than library catalogs, etc. I'm just saying that it's unfair to misrepresent Google the way that Jim did.

Google does a bit better with a search for "cats" instead of "cat", too.

If someone came to the reference desk and said, "I'd like to learn
about cat", what would be your first thought?

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Received on Sun Jan 06 2008 - 14:03:52 EST