I wonder if "googling" has taken the place of "[using a] search engine"?
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:10 AM, James Weinheimer <
weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/03/2013 17:34, Karen Coyle wrote:
> <snip>
> > You have to look at the results, not just the stats. Card catalogs
> > were very big in a wide variety of businesses and disciplines, not
> > just in libraries. Prior to automation, many businesses that had to
> > keep track of what today we would put into a database used cards.
> >
> > " the Bureau has actively continued the compilation of a /card
> > catalogue/ of the archeological sites"
> >
> > " As a result, the Bureau now possesses a /card catalogue/, each card
> > presenting either a brief statement of a labour event or else a
> > summary of an article on a labour subject to be found in other libraries"
> >
> > " This Directory had its origin in a /card catalogue/ of the
> > professional anthropologists of the United States and Canada, begun in
> > l926"
> >
> >
> > I do think that libraries were on the forefront of the modern
> > "organization by card catalog" technology, but card-like systems had
> > been in use in the early days of encyclopedias.[1] What is interesting
> > about this history is how the (re-)invention of card systems in the
> > early 1900's prepared us for the computer, which initially was a
> > machine that processed cards more quickly than humans could and in
> > more different ways.
> </snip>
>
> Good points, although the only word I searched that was specifically
> library-related was "OPAC", and I opened that up with "online/electronic
> catalog", which could as well refer to Sears or Amazon--or a college
> catalog of courses. No matter what, the idea of "search engine(s)"
> clearly rules in Google Books and by extension--theoretically of
> course--also in the minds of the public.
>
> For instance, "search engines" seems to be paired very often with
> "search engine optimization" which is a very popular topic because it
> makes money.
>
> I tried similar searches in Google Trends--not with so many
> variants--and found this:bit.ly/WDwAZS <http://bit.ly/WDwAZS>
>
> The only terms that made a showing were "search engine" and "OPAC".
> Interesting that "OPAC" has been so steady. And the incidence of "search
> engine" has dropped dramatically since 2004. I wonder what is taking its
> place? Linked data? Social search? I can't find anything in Google Trends.
>
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