While reading an article in the Chronicle of Higher Learning titled, “Librarians Want to Out-Google Google With a Better Search Engine”, one of the comments attached suggested this blog. On a more serious note, I think this is something that we (at CML) should weigh in on. Since the working group is soliciting input from all librarians, we should help them out.
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4 comments:
I liked the commentary. Especially Lisa's comment #11
I think this is wasted effort spending any time talking to Elizabeth who apparently wanted to try to derail the real conversation. Ignoring people like her could be more constructive. I have been thinking that greasemonkeyr already does some of this and I don't see anyone mentioning it here, so I wonder if they know about it.
I don't think GooglemonkeyR would be the answer because its mostly a display script.
Wikiasearch works on the "hive mind" principle in order to highlight the most important information for specific search criteria. A "hive mind" browser built by and for librarians could be beneficial, but the process of creating it should be more open and flexible in order to keep from the stuffiness factor which will inevitably alienate users who don't share the same information values as library workers.
A cool name would be The Bee Hive. It could have a satirical graphic of an old school librarian with a beehive hairdo made out of an actual beehive.
Reading through the project proposal, its seems as if they're on the right track. The AltSearchEngines site that Charles Knight added seems very comprehensive.
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