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The author discusses the difference of a number of federated and public search engines including MetaLib, WebFeat, Google, and Google Scholar. It explains how MetaLab and WebFeat are more accurate in their searches and more objective in the way they display their results. It also describes that educational literacy is still apart of federate search engines, while Google lacks this ability. The author makes important points about the unreliability of Google; however, he/she discusses the use of Google shopping and other Google additions that do not pertain to research on Google reliability.

This article transcribes a debate between individuals that believe Google is a benefit to society and individuals who feel that Google restrains society. They discuss the ease of Google, the reliability of Google, and censorship and commerce that affects Google. This article gives me both sides of the article; however, it gives personal opinions of both sides.

These authors discuss a few studies of how the UK's national academic sector services and projects are affected by different search engines. It discusses the first search engine for the volunteers and explains how many of them start with the same search engine. It describes the common uses of internet search engines, whether it be for hours or for just minutes. They followed the search with a questionnaire that asked the volunteers the ease of their research and the reliability of their findings. Hence, this article describes both how easy it is to use Google and how reliable the findings are; however, it studies students just in the UK.

The authors of this article tried to generate search technology to view library resources; however, they found a number of problems. Because of these struggles, they conducted an experiment comparing Organ State University Libraries design to Google Scholar. They use volunteers to conduct research in an efficient and effective way to discover the reliability of each student. They used both qualitative and quantitative data to determine how Google compares to other search engines. This article also presents charts and tables that make understanding the experimental result with more ease.

These authors studied a number of popular search engines, including Google, to discover if they can find librarian acceptable information. In order to do this they entered in several key words and looked at the first one hundred results. Once completing these tests the authors discovered what percent of each search engine was librarian acceptable. It also lists the total number of results of each search engines. These authors' research gives a representation of the reliability of a number of search engines including Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

This article discusses the internet habits of college students during the early twenty first century. It discusses how often college student use the internet and internet search engines such as Google on an almost daily basis. It also suggests that different backgrounds and racial groups have different access to the internet. Of the individuals that use the internet it describes what websites they use the most including Yahoo and Google, Library websites, news websites, and online encyclopedias. This article gives an accurate description of how many college students use the internet and what they use it for; however, it does not describe how reliable these websites are.