Defenders of dead-tree information storage will not be happy about this.  Expect to see huffy articles about how this will somehow make people dumber and undermine academic research.

Just a reminder for Michigan residents, the Michigan eLibrary (MeL) http://www.mel.org can be used by any resident of the state by simply logging in with their driver’s license number. MeL has a sizable collection of databases, many of which contain full text articles.

This really looks good. From time to time I have used a poor man’s version by including the term “site:.edu” in my searches. It looks like this will also pick up the Journals that I haven’t been getting – and more.

word = find (Honest)

All I can say is sweet! This is going to be a huge help to me for my 3000 word paper on dinosaurs I have to write that is due next Tuesday…  SEB to the rescue! And who said slacking off reading blogs doesn’t help you with your school work?

Wow, you’ve no idea just how useful that will actually be. There were hundreds, no thousands of times I would be helping a friend with a CX Case and have to spend hours looking for just a single page because of all the crap that comes up with a normal search engine.

Wow you mean I might be able to search for ‘boobies’ and get information about birds and not amateur porn?!

Another hip feature of Google that y’all might not be aware of is Google Questions. They employ researchers and experts to answer any question you can ask them. It will cost ya, but it seems like it could be an awesome bail out if you were in a crunch.