Google Web Search is the most popular search engine at the moment by some margin and it is certainly excellent at finding everyday information reliably and quickly. What few people notice is that, under the hood, Google Web Search is …
Google Scholar is not Google Web search Most people who search Google Scholar assume that it is a cut-down version of Google Web search that shows only academic content. In fact, Google Scholar is an entirely separate database with a …
Finding images online can be challenging. While we have excellent image databases comprising many thousands of images licensed for you to reuse and adapt, sometimes you just want to search the web for inspiring images that match the colours of …
Google is great for many things, and while librarians seem to spend their lives preaching about its limitations for academic research, there are a number of interesting specialist tools Google have developed on the quiet that offer access to some …
or Why not start with Google? Everybody loves Google, with good reason. Google is great for finding the answers to any specific question where the answer will be pretty much all in one place and you will recognise it when …
“Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism. It’s time to stop them.” ~ Zephyr Teachout Is there anything Google cannot do? Is there anything Google soon will not decide it should not do? By the time you rule the world, …
Have you come across Google Lens yet? It’s Google’s attempt to identify and offer information about what is in a photograph you take. Useful if you are trying to identify famous landmarks, brutally effective for cheating with both hands in the pictures round of a pub …
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Update 21.12.16 – The FullText@Portsmouth links have reappeared in Google Scholar today and appear to be working again. Update 15.12.16 – Ebsco are working with Google to re-establish working FullText@Portsmouth links. Ebsco tentatively predicts that these links will begin working again from …
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Academic research is not one of them. Librarians often bemoan what Google does badly (like finding all the useful papers for assignments) but here are 21 things Google now does that are really rather useful in everyday life. http://twentytwowords.com/google-tricks-and-shortcuts-that-will-make-your-daily-life-much-easier/?utm_source=socialmob&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=article-or-quiz-name&utm_content=1534
The newspaper database Nexis has changed its searching options making it easier to use. This revised layout may look familiar to those of you who use Discovery.
