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Have a google er, giggle

Click on the image to view full size at Flickr - the joke is in the fine print.

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I wonder if we’ll ever see community service announcements on search sites, recommending that information seekers should ask for expert assistance when their information needs are of serious import. Or will a search engine be sued because there were no warnings on the search page that the quality of the information found might be out of date, unauthorised, unauthoritative, incorrect, fictitious, or downright wrong.

August 8th, 2006 Posted by Peta Hopkins | All sectors, Uncategorized | one comment

Public access to WorldCat launched.

OCLC’s public version of WorldCat went live on 6 August 2006.

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August 8th, 2006 Posted by Kathryn Greenhill | All sectors, Useful resources | one comment