Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Thing 7: Blog Searching

I did a search in Technorati but it was about as helpful as asking my dog for information.  I know this site has changed a lot since its inception and I'm not sure how relevant it is anymore for the general internet searcher.  Google blog search gave me some results but I actually got more results by just doing a regular Google search.  I also got a lot of results on Ask.com (in fact they were exactly the same as the Google results).

While doing this project I did more "tag" searching than ever before.  And I'm not necessarily won over.  I'm sure that if you had a specific project or research paper that you were doing tagging is essential.  But for me, the elementary librarian, Pinterest gives me everything I need.  Seriously.  It is probably the most amazing search tool that I have used in many years.  When you learn how to search it correctly and understand the difference between searching for pins versus searching for boards, you will find a wealth of information.

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