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Don’t try to search by author in Google News. Whuh? D’oh!

Just in case you need an example of how library search systems (OPACs and Databases) are different, you might want to have this in your back pocket.

Google News Drops Author Search Command

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-news-author-command-14474.html

Google News“Google has dropped a feature on Google News to help you locate articles by authors.

The feature was the author command and worked where you typed in the Google News search box, [author:firstname lastname].  Now when you search using that command, nothing is returned.”

For those folks in libraries who are directing people and teaching them about Google Books, Google Scholar and the like, is this Google News news a harbinger of things to come?  With the degradation of advanced search in Google and the apparent lack of interest in libraries and professional versus consumer search, we can worry or surmise that libraries care about different aspects of search and metadata.

Hmmmm.  This makes a mess of egofeeds and alerts too.

Stephen

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Posted on: December 19, 2011, 5:40 pm Category: Uncategorized

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  1. Rich Wiggins said

    Very scary.

  2. Erin Dinneen said

    Hmmm. So now we don’t have to worry so much about authority for our information. If you can’t follow an author’s works, how do you determine quality?

  3. Carolyn Mattern said

    Oh my goodness. I guess we might switch from using Google as our search engine. I really try and teach kids this is how and why. Quality is so important as is continuing our research and wanting to read further works by authors we appreciate. I have a majority of my students asking, “What else did this author write?”