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Rich Results is a book search algorithm takes into account more than 100 "signals," individual data categories that Google statistically integrates to rank your results. When you search for a book, Google Books doesn't just look at word frequency or how closely your query matches the title of a book. They now take into account web search frequency, recent book sales, the number of libraries that hold the title, and how often an older book has been reprinted.

Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world

Attempts at gaming Google Scholar's metrics with fake papers, but frustrations reported with Scholar's lack of transparency

a collection of Nexus One reviews by the CSM

"How to Teach With Google Wave" build online classrom communities

Alan Davidson, formerly a lawyer and now a Google exec, talks about disruptive technology in business

How Digital curation and DAM is one and the same thing

Abstract: "Traditionally, scholarly impact and visibility have been measured by counting publications and citations in the scholarly literature. However, increasingly scholars are also visible on the Web, establishing presences in a growing variety of social ecosystems. But how wide and established is this presence, and how do measures of social Web impact relate to their more traditional counterparts? To answer this, we sampled 57 presenters from the 2010 Leiden STI Conference, gathering publication and citations counts as well as data from the presenters' Web "footprints." We found Web presence widespread and diverse: 84% of scholars had homepages, 70% were on LinkedIn, 23% had public Google Scholar profiles, and 16% were on Twitter. For sampled scholars' publications, social reference manager bookmarks were compared to Scopus and Web of Science citations; we found that Mendeley covers more than 80% of sampled articles, and that Mendeley bookmarks are significantly correlated (r=.45) to Scopus citation counts. " "Accepted to 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Montreal, Canada, 5-8 Sept. 2012."

In the June 4 issue, The Chronicle published an article on what Google Books could mean for researchers. We asked some leading scholars to comment on how "big data" will change the humanities. Here are their responses:

A review of four bibliographic utility studies on library catalogs points out that the library catalog is no longer the starting point for students and researchers and that it has been eclipsed by easier-to-use and more convenient tools such as Google Books, Google Scholar, and LibraryThing. The author suggests that catalog developers learn from these tools and draw on their metadata; include "social" enhancements such as tagging, comments, and reviews; develop systems that are user-focused rather than librarian-focused; forsake the local catalog for the union catalog to reduce duplication of effort

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations from Google Scholar

Discussion about what "patrimony" and "heritage" and a "universal knowledge collection" means and the place of HathiTrust and Google digitization project in the future National Dgitial Library

One of the many comparative studies in the field of business and management which point to the conclusion that to see the full impact of HBS faculty article output (as judged by citations) needs to take into account GS (Harzing's), WoS and Scopus.

Questions discussed includ privacy, monopoly, size

PBS documentary aired 12/30/09

How Google Search, the Kindle and e-books, and print on demand this could play out in the future, specifically for the major players of book publishing: readers, authors, printers, publishers, retailers, and e-book device vendors.

Digital media and the Internet are transforming how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. A newly-created Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the University of California-Irvine will provide an international center to nurture exploration of and build evidence around the impact of digital media on young people's learning and its potential for transforming education. Funded through a $2.97 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Center was announced today at a national forum at Google headquarters that brought together leading thinkers around the challenge of reasserting American global leadership in education.

"potential to dramatically accelerate a broad disruption in the mobile phone market where the balance of power shifts from carriers and retailers to device, software, and applications providers."