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Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips – Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu, Daniel M. Wegner. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1207745, Published Online 14 July 2011. See also Google’s Effects on Memory, PBS NewsHour via YouTube. “The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as …
Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips. Betsy Sparrow1, Jenny Liu, Daniel M. Wegner. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1207745 “The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as lifting a finger. No longer do we have to make costly efforts to find the things …
Benjamin Rossi – analyst at Basex: “For students, doing research is the bread and butter of their academic life. Conducting research doesnt just mean searching for information effectively; it means being able to judge the reliability of sources, place information within various contexts, and synthesize different information sources while developing ones thesis. Encompassing a wide …
News release: “Google’s Chrome exceeded 20% of the worldwide internet browser market during the month of June for the first time, according to StatCounter, the free website analytics company. The firm’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Chrome took 20.7% of the global market, up from 2.8% in June 2009. In the same period …
Official Google Blog: “Among the most basic of human needs is the need to connect with others. With a smile, a laugh, a whisper or a cheer, we connect with others every single day. Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness …
“In the summer of 2010, Peter Mosinskis from California State University Channel Islands assembled a team of approximately fifteen volunteers from seven different CSU campuses and one from the UC system to evaluate the accessibility of Google Apps. The team also recruited student volunteers and screen reader users to assist with the testing. Automated, manual, …
WSJ: “Federal regulators are poised to hit Google Inc. with subpoenas, launching a broad, formal investigation into whether the Internet giant has abused its dominance in Web-search advertising, people familiar with the matter said. The civil probe, which has the potential to reshape how companies compete on the Internet, is the most serious legal threat …
News release: “Major project to digitise up to 40 million pages from 1700-1870, from the French Revolution to the end of slavery – The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Librarys collections. Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world, …
Hunting For A Job? Try the Internet: Acknowledging the economy in the past several years has made the job search process even more challenging, Rhonda Keaton and Barbara Fullerton provide strategic suggestions and a guide to a wide range of sources to support and leverage a multi-pronged search effort in response to the competitive job …
EPIC: “The White House modified its privacy policy for WhiteHouse.gov on June 3, 2011. The new policy is more than twice as long as the old policy. The new policy states the White House web site now uses persistent Google Analytics cookies that track users for up to two years. Previously the site employed only …
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Timothy J. Dickey, and Marie L. Radford. 2011. “‘If It is Too Inconvenient, I’m Not Going After It.:’ Convenience as a Critical Factor in Information-seeking Behaviors.” Library and Information Science Research, 33: 179-190. doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2010.12.002 Pre-print. “In today’s fast-paced world, anecdotal evidence suggests that information tends to inundate people, and users of information …
Official Google Blog: “…were announcing schema.org, a new initiative from Google, Bing and Yahoo! to create and support a common vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages. With schema.org, site owners and developers can learn about structured data and improve how their sites appear in major search engines. The site aims to be a …
