Showing posts with label query. Show all posts
Showing posts with label query. Show all posts
Saturday, January 25, 2020

›
Where does information fluency intersect with entrepreneurship? The latest edition of the Full Circle Kit for winter 2020 looks at infor...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Keyword Games

›
In the newest Full Circle Resource Kit (Fall 2018), the featured article is about using games to change search behaviors. Telling students...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Refining and Finding Keywords

›
The keywords you start with are often not the keywords you need. A good example of this occurred recently in a summer program I was lead...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Finding a Publication Date

›
Here's a common problem: You find a resource online that you want to cite, but the publication date is missing. The case in question...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

High Cost of Being Gullible

›
The price of cyber crime is astounding. UK Guardian: Consumers and businesses in the UK lost an estimated £27 billion in 2012 due to c...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Invisible Query

›
Time flies! I've neglected this blog for about 6 weeks. Dennis O'Connor and I are deep into authoring a book on Teaching Informa...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Slinky Challenge (#006)

›
The Toys in Space Challenge started with Apollo 8 taking Silly Putty into Space. After the Challenge had been up for a year or so, the ans...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Semantic Searching

›
The crew of Challenger's last mission  Improvements to search engines make searching easier. Take the semantic application  hakia.c...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Flight Status Challenge

›
My daughter is flying home to the West Coast tomorrow morning. The weather today has caused delays at the Chicago airports. The question i...
1 comment:
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A Query for Curry

›
Here's a good example of what can happen when facts aren't checked adequately. It is reported that Ann Curry, news anchor for the...
Sunday, May 9, 2010

Poop for Power

›
My Call for Reviewers was a little too successful last week. Before I knew it, 50 people had applied and I only needed 15. In case you went ...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Mining eBay

›
A search this morning led me through eBay. This has happened before, so I think it's worth writing about. Thinking that the brand name...
Friday, January 1, 2010

Blue Moons

›
If you live in the Western Hemisphere, New Years Eve was a blue moon. (Readers in the Eastern Hemisphere still have a month before their blu...
1 comment:
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Basic vs Advanced Searching

›
You probably don't use advanced search options very often. You're not alone. Advanced searchers--such as the members of the searc...
3 comments:
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Revisiting words with multiple meanings

›
Of the items on the Query Checklist , one that could be dropped is #6: avoiding words that have multiple meanings. If your query includes an...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Revisiting Optimal Number of Keywords

›
When building a query, how many keywords is enough and what number is too many? There really are no absolutes here because so many variables...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Revisiting Word Order

›
When does the order of keywords matter? The ninth item of the query checklist was always last because keyword order mattered the least. Th...
2 comments:
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Query Checklist Revisited

›
A number of years ago, we published the Query Checklist , a guide for turning questions into queries. I seldom think about the checklist any...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Search Challenge in the Toilet?

›
The title may be too graphic, but here's a search challenge that belongs in the bathroom. I could format this into a flash version of a ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Yes, There's a Need - Part 3

›
When people aren't sure what else to do, they resort to browsing. While using a query or truncating a url might be a faster solution t...
1 comment: