A name ..... RE: [Web4lib] What's in a name (Google Book Search, that is)?

[Dempsey,Lorcan]

Changing subject slightly, but picking up on something mentioned below
....

I think that RedLightGreen is is a marvellous name. It is one of the few
library service names to emerge in the age of Internet naming which
displays the wit and imagination that has characterized some of the best
Internet services.  

Coincidentally, I said something similar the other day here:
http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000865.html

Lorcan


Lorcan Dempsey [http://orweblog.oclc.org] 
OCLC Research  [http://www.oclc.org/research/]

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of K.G. Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:19 PM
To: web4lib
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] What's in a name (Google Book Search, that is)?

> This doesn't strike me as rocket science--rather as a rudimentary 
> awareness of the nuances of the English language.

Well, it's a nuance clearly beyond my abilities. I'm tearing up my
diplomas, right now! BAD girl! No pumpkin pie until I dumb down, I mean
diagram, ten sentences (which I will find through Amazon's "Search
Inside the Book Search," if I don't first use "Google Search")! By the
way, Walt, how ARE things going with "RedLightGreen Search"? 

Speaking of search engines, in a report dated 11/27/2005 (!), Pew
reports that since 2004, "use of search engines on a typical day has
jumped from 30% to 41% of the internet-using population." The report
also notes that 9 out of 10 dentists, I mean internet-users, use search
engines. (But do choosy mothers choose Google?)

http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/167/source/rss/report_display.asp

Karen G. Schneider-Search
kgs at bluehighways.com





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