Orland Hoeber (University of Regina, Canada) has spent much of his academic career looking at why and how we search for scholarly content. Should we have one search interface for everything? Clearly not, but what kind of searching is most appropriate …
There is an endearing air of disorganisation about the Search Solutions Conference: even though it has been running for over 20 years, it continues to have an unscripted feel. …
A 2025 paper by Olof Sundin worries about people using Google Search uncritically. Specifically, it points out how Google has changed the way it delivers search results over …
Any academic study that looks at institutional repositories is welcome, so we can get a better idea of how many repositories there are, how they function in different countries, …
Search engines have not become obsolete because of genAI. They serve different purposes, and it’s worth while considering how they differ.
Benedict Evans hits the nail on the head when assessing genAI …
How do students and researchers find content? This is a topic that comes up again and again in this column, since it seems to be so frequently misunderstood. Much of the …
If you ask Google “What is the ugliest language in the world?” it will give you an answer (Kannada, according to Google, at least until 2021, when there was a minor scandal in the Indian …
Daniel Russell was for over ten years the head of search at Google, so a book by him about search raises considerable expectations. His book is written for the common reader, I accept, but it was a bit of a shock …
In the murky early history of libraries, there are several claims that the first public library was established in the ancient Roman Empire. Trying …
Everything ends happily … the idea of a dating site that matches researchers, funders, and policy makers is a great one. So I was excited to try out the new UK Government-funded Areas of Research …
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