I haven’t seen this on any LIS blogs yet so I though I’d get it out there quick. Google has a new beta interface named Google Suggest. Try typing a search into the box and see how it suggests searches to you along with the approximate number of hits that search will receive. I’m not sure this is something that I’ll be specifically using on a regular basis but it’s a feature useful enough that I’d like to see it integrated into the main search. (Maybe as an option you can turn on/off in preferences?)
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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