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Posts tagged "searching"
Jan 23, 2013
“I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one’s present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you. Has Google appropriated the word ‘search’? If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in the recorded history of human life.
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Sep 11, 2011
» Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL F
“I can’t believe people have been wasting their lives like this either! It makes me think that we need a new type of class in schools across the land immediately. Electronic literacy. Just like we learn to skim tables of content or look through an index or just skim chapter titles to find what we’re looking for, we need to teach people about this CTRL F thing.”Agreed. Digital literacy as a New Liberal Art
Think of all the people who don’t know basic search terms, either.
Sep 24, 2008
Web Search Strategies in Plain English | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
Man, I wish I had this when I was a librarian.
