Barcode your bookshelf with Google Books features a short video that shows how to use a bar code scanner to enter your books into your personal library on Google Books. I don’t have a scanner, but I bet lots of you do! Handy, fast way to get lots of books entered quickly.
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Posts Tagged ‘search’
It’s NOT a search engine – Wolfram Alpha – try it!
A new tool for finding data and doing calculations was released in March. I just heard about it today – several times in fact – I’m a few weeks behind on the “buzz”.
Wolfram Alpha is NOT a search engine – “It’s a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal [...]
50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
Nicely organized and handy cheat sheet of search shortcuts for Google & Yahoo. Also available as a 3 page doc file and a separate html page for easy printing.
Google in Quotes
Via Phil Bradley’s weblog:
Google has come out with a really clever gizmo that they’re calling ‘Google in Quotes‘. Basically it pits two political figures from some major countries together allowing searchers to type in a search term in order to compare what they say about the subject. The experiment comes in various country flavours…
This service [...]
Tons o’ Search Tips
Thanks to Kate Sheehan (Loose Cannon Librarian) for live blogging the sessions she attended today with Mary Ellen Bates at the Greenwich Library. Wow, tons of terrific search tips in these posts! Check ‘em out.
Mary Ellen Bates at Greenwich Library
Mary Ellen Bates 45 search tips in 60 minutes
Advanced Search Secrets with Mary Ellen Bates