Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the Web. But most people don't use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest way to search, but with more than 3 billion pages in Google's index, it's still a struggle to pare results to a manageable number. Check out this tutorial: 20 Ways to get more from Google

New book in the library: Computer-Assisted Research, a Guide to Tapping Online Information by Nora M. Paul

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STATEMENT BY DAVID KAY ON THE INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE IRAQ SURVEY GROUP (ISG)
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Report from the recent Emerging Technologies Conference: Re-imagining the Future
A world in which a global computer system provides helpful advice, medicines are tailored to individual patients, and people zip around in hydrogen-powered cars is possible with enough effort and investment, a group of speakers told the audience at Technology Review’s Emerging Technologies Conference. Leaders of technology industries spoke not just of individual inventions, but of a reimagining an entire field.
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