LexisNexis, it’s kind of an industrial strength Google
Starting at 1:00 Keith Olberman tells the story of Justice Department lawyer Monica Goodling’s LexisNexis search while investigating the political backgrounds of job applicants. (Yep, that’s illegal.) The best part is when Olberman reads the complete search syntax starting at 1:35. (Stick though for the other searches Olberman suggests.)
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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5 Replies to “LexisNexis, it’s kind of an industrial strength Google”
Great catch, Michael! That’s my laugh for the day. 🙂
I’m gonna use that “industrial strength Google” quote in my next instruction session…
Thanks for the good laugh!
PS the captcha for this comment was a rough one for the dyslexic
heheh “land war in Asia” 🙂
That is one helluva search string she came up with. Wonder what the results looked like…
Fantastic! Monica the Church Lady? I’ll need to take another swig of my industrial strength Google now.
Great catch, Michael! That’s my laugh for the day. 🙂
I’m gonna use that “industrial strength Google” quote in my next instruction session…
Thanks for the good laugh!
PS the captcha for this comment was a rough one for the dyslexic
heheh “land war in Asia” 🙂
That is one helluva search string she came up with. Wonder what the results looked like…
Fantastic! Monica the Church Lady? I’ll need to take another swig of my industrial strength Google now.
That was awesome. I love Keith Olberman. 🙂