Read/Write Web has posted a list of “The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines.” They point out that Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com handle 99.99% of all web searches. Have fun.
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Category Archives: Information Literacy
Libraries and Facebook
I haven’t been paying all that much attention to the ongoing conversations about setting up library profiles in Facebook or MySpace, so this might be old news, but there has been some interesting talk on the ili-l listserv. Apparently, libraries have been suspended from Facebook because they violate the user aggreement. The aggreement has a regulation about not impersonating and entity.
You can find the thread here.
Nature Response to EB
The Colbert Wikipedia video restarted a lot of the Wikipedia debate on the ili-listserv, which prompted someone to post this link where Nature magazine posts their responses to Encyclopedia Britannica. ‘s response to the Nature report that Wikipedia was close to EB in reliability. Some of this may be old news, but I hadn’t seen all the information aggregated at the Nature site before. Could be handy if you’re teaching info lit. Though someone on the list pointed out that in a way, it’s a non-issue because we should be teaching students how to evaluate Web sites in general. There’s no need to treat Wikipedia any differently than any other site.