[Sig-bwp] Reference Extract: A CrowdSourced Search Engine?

[gerrymck]

Colleagues/

Reference Extract: A Potential Major Contribution To The World of
Search From The Ever-Imaginative R. David Lankes and Friends !

/Gerry

Reference Extract [http://referencextract.org/] is envisioned as a web
search engine, like Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, unlike other
search engines, Reference Extracts will be built for maximum
credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of
librarians from around the globe. Users will enter a search term and
get results weighted towards sites most often referred to by
librarians at institutions such as the Library of Congress, the
University of Washington, the State of Maryland, and over 1,400
libraries worldwide.

[More] AND Also Links to Select News Coverage Available At The
CrowdSource Blog Posting @

[ http://tinyurl.com/5nmv5t ]

Enjoy!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu

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