Re: Lazy?

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

If one opens the advanced menu, one will find a further menu to select 10, 20, 30,
50, or 100! displayed results.

bc who remembers? a previous version of google that permitted the default to be
greater than just ten.

p.s. how backwards, Netscape's (V. 4.77) dict. doesn't include google!

Larry Cartwright wrote:

> David Bonar wrote:
> > I think that going to the stacks is a great way to search a
> > library once you know the rough call number by finding a
> > couple of related books in the catalog.  It solves all of
> > the issues about knowing the best keywords because you only
> > need to get close.
>
> Well spoken!  I believe that the usefulness of librarians' catalogs has
> been highly overrated as a research tool.  Once the catalog has given me
> a general picture of the locations of the type of information I am
> seeking, I find that I get far more bang for my buck browsing the stacks
> than I get from continuing to pore through the catalog.  I'm convinced I
> get a better feel for the available resources when I am in the stacks,
> and I am not at the mercy of what details the cataloguer chose to
> include or omit.
>
> I believe that most websearch utilities, such as Google, give more of
> the feel of browsing the stacks than of tickling the catalog.  IMHO they
> could be improved by including more "hits" per page; a short list of
> search returns is like having one's peripheral vision obscured while in
> the stacks.

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also the position of Sergey, Marc, James, and Larry.

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.