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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:08:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: INTERNET: SEARCH: TOOLS: GOOGLE : SOFTWARE : EMAIL : OPINION: Google
Has Rough Edges and Downsides
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:59:19 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: INTERNET: SEARCH: TOOLS: GOOGLE : SOFTWARE : EMAIL : OPINION: Google
Has Rough Edges and Downsides
In a discussion of the weaknesses of Google BETA products compared to others on
the DIG_REF discussion of Digital Reference Services in Libraries, I in the
post below of possible interest to some members of this list, ask why one would
limit critical discussion of Google weaknesses to their BETA products when
there is so much of a critical nature to discuss in their established products
and changes of these products? Unfortunately, the DIG_REF list current
messages are no longer archived.
Here is my post:
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:34:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DIG_REF] Could Google Wave Replace Course-Management Systems?
My friends, it does not even take BETA for irritating and counterproductive
changes to take place in Google's network without warning and without effective
place for recourse or critical feedback.
For a very long time, the Google Options page included a link called Special
Searches and under it one found search tools for Government, Microsoft sources,
Apple sources and more. This link is now gone and one must know to go to the
bottom of the web search advanced search page of Google to find these tools.
Google Books for the longest time on the overview page had the bibliographic
citation at the top of that page. It is now at the bottom so that anyone
seeking the citation for books in this database must scroll to the bottom of
every overview page to obtain this information, how convenient is that. News
archive is no longer an automatic option on EVERY Google News search, sometimes
that link appears on the left sidebar, other times not, even when results do
occur in a search of Google News search. There is also the incredible
inaccuracy of Google searching that leads to results in different searches that
are logically numerically inconsistent and mathematically impossible. Using
Google for serious reseach is kind of like leaving serious solutions to
transportation problems in the twenty-first century to a toy manufacturer.
<http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/li/
little-tikes-cosy-coupe-ii-toy-car.jpg>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/575b28>
<http://images.asia.ru/img/alibaba/photo/50385760/Smart_Bug_Toy_Car.jpg>
<http://images.asia.ru/img/alibaba/photo/50378068/Toy_Car.jpg>
Hey they get excellent gas milage. Better than Toyota.
Oh yes, there is no guarantee that these links will remain working over a short
or long period time, another Google issue, this one with Google Images.
Should the above links all fail, look in your minds eye at a toy car used by
your favorite preschooler.
Google Web Search Search Accuracy:
Consider these search results:
Omitted results included [Now there is another search situation to consider,
what the devil are omitted results?]
Results 1 - 20 of about 20,500 for webbib0607 OR webbib0708 OR webbib0809
Now lets ADD a fiscal year:
Results 1 - 20 of about 2,550 for webbib0607 OR webbib0708 OR webbib0809 OR
webbib0910
If EBSCO or OVID or any other search tools lost around 17,500 records by adding
a year, the search community would be up in arms and there is no beta in a
simple term search using the boolean OR connector in Google.
Toy companies would be sued off of the planet if they produced toys that worked
this erratically.
One final point, Google software based tools are not the bees knees. Since
Temple made its email, Gmail, I have had oceans of problems with email. I no
longer get in Google commercial email, i.e. a Google corporate Gmail account,
messages that I send through a list. I will not see this message in my inbox
and must depend for records on only the sent mail copy. I have been put on the
Temple server rather than the Gmail server for outgoing email so that I can
send copies of messages for storage to mulitple email accounts of my own
without Gmail servers classifying these posts to multiple addresses as spam.
Many Google "features" such as these are hard wired and the word options is
unknown to them in such matters like the feature of merging multiple messages
in a thread into one message with parts. Hence my Google Alerts are grouped
into one message for a number of them and it is very hard to get rid of some
and keep others based on need. I spend a number of additional hours each week
on email dealing with such joys as deleting already deleted email from the ALL
MAIL folder after deleting these same emails for the Inbox or from Sent-Mail.
Fortunately, Trash can be eliminated as a group, but it is still yet another
step. I then need to delete the already deleted AlL MAIl folder from the Trash
Mail so in counting, I am deleting each message three times. Furthermore, ALL
MAIL and Trash folders must be worked on from web based Gmail and cannot be as
far as I know, accessed by the text based email readers called Pine and Alpine.
Indeed if I so much as hit the letter D in using Pine or Alpine while reading
an email, that message is now deleted and only available in web based Gmail's
ALL MAIL folder. Theses are tremendous advantages for those with disabilities
that make using web based email difficult or impossible and great execution of
disabilities legislation and facilitation of use of Google email by those with
disabilities.
Sometimes we speak of a work in progress. Often Google is best described as a
work in regress.
This from the source of Meet the Googles:
Meet the Googles
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22meet+the+googles%22+and+
%22net-gold%22&hl=en&rls=DAUS,DAUS:2006-11,DAUS:en&filter=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/52t9hj>
AND
<http://sites.google.com/site/searchtoolsfamily/>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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