[Web4lib] Lack of discussion of Google CSE and Libraries

[Patricia F Anderson]

Hi, Bill,

As a fan of Rollyo and Gigablast's custom search features, I am quite 
excited by Google's CSE. I am under deadline with a couple article at the 
moment, so haven't had a chance to test it out. From what I have seen of 
CSEs from other people, it looks as if the Google CSE is the best of both 
Rollyo and Gigablast's options, and resolves some of the problems with 
each. I can hardly wait to play around with it.

  -- Patricia Anderson, pfa at umich.edu

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Drew, Bill wrote:

> I originally posted this on my blog yesterday but I thought I might get
> some discussion here.
>
> I have been disappointed in the lack of posts from the most prolific
> library bloggers on the topic of Google Custom Search Engines.  In my
> own opinion it is the most important development at Google since Google
> went live.  Searching for the phrase "Google Custom Search " on LISZEN
> gets me 58 pages listed in the results
> <http://liszen.com/index.html?cx=007111056751095715160%3A3qdthmlca-m&q=%
> 22google+custom+search%22&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A9> .  The articles are
> not from many of the big names in library tech blogging.  Some you might
> recognize are David Rothman <http://davidrothman.net/> , OA Librarian
> <http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/10/cool-new-search-tool-for-oa-new
> s.html> , and Christina's LIS Rant
> <http://christinaslibraryrant.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-custom-search.
> html> .  I am disappointed that ALA Tech Source nor any of the people at
> Library Journal have not reported on it.  I can also think of several
> other bloggers that should be covering this but are not.
>
>
> Technorati Tags: GoolgeCSE <http://technorati.com/tag/GoolgeCSE> ,
> Google <http://technorati.com/tag/Google> , Libraries
> <http://technorati.com/tag/Libraries>
>
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