SearchReSearch

A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (March 30, 2010): Quotes / misquotes / mondegreens

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Today's challenge is about quotations and the difficulty of pinning down an accurate source.  Sometimes you'll be looking for the s...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Answer: What do you call a rotating flower?

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This was another hard question, so don't feel bad if you didn't get it instantly.  That's part of the point of this blog--search...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (March 24, 2010): What do you call a rotating flower?

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I've probably mentioned that I'm interested in wildflowers.  They're one of the highlights of springtime in Silicon Valley.  Yes...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Saving the Google students..

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In Sunday's editorial at the LA Times, recently pink-slipped school librarian Sara Scribner writes:       The current generation of ki...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Why we need to teach people how to search..

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Is there even a need to teach search?   A goal of Google search is to be so simple, so obvious, so effective, that the searcher never needs...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

The smallest sensemaking problem

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“Sensemaking” is what you do when you’re trying to figure out some complicated problem that involves too much data, or the wrong kind of dat...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Answer: What is that thing in the sky?

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First off... it's not a UFO, as a couple of people suggested! As I mentioned yesterday, finding things like this--objects or concepts...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (March 17, 2010): What is it?

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One of the most difficult things to discover is what something is called when you don't know its name.... This is actually a double-ed...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Making sense of conflicting information: the case of the wild radish

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One of my interests in life is understanding the world around me.  When I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, I was initially astonished at...
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