[Web4lib] Google's new "Universal" (Federated) search default

[Mark Allan]

(Cross-posted to libref-l)

Google is now searching its component databases and displaying them 
with the single default search. Good? Time will tell. I remember when 
Google's algorithm was ranking blog entries above quality search 
results. (See article below for more)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131929-page,1/article.html


Mark

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