Google Newsletter for Librarians
I just got my first Google Newsletter for Librarians. I had almost given up, since it has been a while since they first started (I think close to two months.) The first article on their newsletter is:
How does Google rank results?
It does a great job of explaining Search Engine Technology in layperson's terms, and as an Instructional Librarian, I appreciate the student exercises. They gave me a few ideas for notes to post on an online course I will be teaching. I'm not much of the corporate type, but I do appreciate Google's attempt at reaching out to Librarians, and its nice to know there is someone at Google that we can take our questions to.
The link to the Google Newsletter Group is here:
http://groups.google.com/group/librarian-newsletter
How does Google rank results?
One of the most common questions we hear from librarians is "How does Google decide what result goes at the top of the list?" Here, from quality engineer Matt Cutts, is a quick primer on how we crawl and index the web and then rank search results. Read the article
It does a great job of explaining Search Engine Technology in layperson's terms, and as an Instructional Librarian, I appreciate the student exercises. They gave me a few ideas for notes to post on an online course I will be teaching. I'm not much of the corporate type, but I do appreciate Google's attempt at reaching out to Librarians, and its nice to know there is someone at Google that we can take our questions to.
The link to the Google Newsletter Group is here:
http://groups.google.com/group/librarian-newsletter


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