Comments on: The ReadWriteWeb needs Sexy Librarians

By: Deborah Fitchett

Deborah Fitchett — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:53:54 +0000

For #1, movies spears props looks promising.

For #3, yes, the search works far better if the user learns the secret special syntax. And I suppose the minus sign isn't terribly cryptic compared to some of the other secret syntax; still, it would be pretty cool if Google's engine could be taught to interpret "other than", "except", "but no(t)" and such as a minus sign by itself.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:48:27 +0000

Here’s an old fashioned idea that will work even if the power goes out…. use Genreflecting-

By: davidleeking

davidleeking — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:14:39 +0000

Mara – you’re right. Like Simon pointed out above, the search should include Asimov – and then just ignore him to get your list.

By: mara

mara — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:27:38 +0000

Yoicks, you actually recommend putting -isaac asimov in the search? So you don’t want to see a list of the 100 greatest sci-fi authors just because it includes Asimov’s name??

By: Stephanie Willen Brown

Stephanie Willen Brown — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:58:57 +0000

I like this post because I’m always looking for good examples of bad searches for my reference / advanced reference classes @ Simmons. It’s hard for me to think of bad searches — so these, and the back story @ readwriteweb are very helpful.

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By: Simon Chamberlain

Simon Chamberlain — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:41:16 +0000

I wouldn’t go with the -”isaac asimov” element, because then you’ll eliminate any page that contains his name (which would probably be a lot of relevant pages). Better to just search and then exclude IA from your results. (I guess it depends what you are trying to do: I’m assuming the query is looking for a list of famous authors – so it doesn’t matter if you get a list that says Asimov, Clarke, Dick, Heinlein, etc – you just ignore Asimov).

But hey, I’d probably just go to Wikipedia because they probably have just such a list…or find a list of different SF book awards and then look up the homepage for each award.

Maybe throw in the plural of author and add writer/s as well.

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