Searching for AIDS: Google strikes again [Hardin MD

Drew, Bill drewwe at snymorva.morrisville.EDU
Wed Jul 26 12:26:20 EDT 2000


The problem with the analysis done by Rumsey is that most people and most
library users don't care about such things.
They will look through what is there until they find what they are looking
for.  That does not mean that don't need to improve it just means that such
analysis leaves saying "SO WHAT?"  If a user came to with this kind of
search I would suggest using HIV as a search term.

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Wilfred (Bill) Drew
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