Category Archives: Search Engines

The Vast Wasteland Of Online Music

Posted on July 17, 2013 by laura

A few weeks ago, I wasted the better part of an afternoon looking for the right piece of music for a video I was putting together. Online music is vast wasteland of crap served up by cloggy JavaScript sites with … Continue reading →

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Internet Search Is A Joke

Posted on January 14, 2012 by laura

I am trying to find an article I read sometime within the past two years. As I recall, it was a blog post in which the author was examining the question “Where exactly does the action take place when you … Continue reading →

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The best search engine for finding full text of public domain books online

Posted on November 10, 2010 by laura

Following  yesterday’s post about Google Books’ failure to present links to the full online text of Le Vingtième Siècle, a futuristic novel by Albert Robida published in 1883, I was thinking about just how difficult it had been to find … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital Books, Google, Search Engines | 6 Comments