A Human Touch to Searching the Internet

July 15th, 2005

Our colleague Gary Price has a great quote in this article in the Globe and Mail:

“Gary Price, a librarian and editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, says he agrees that people are a necessary part of getting relevant information from the Internet. “There is still absolutely a role for human beings in searching for information.”

“According to Mr. Price, some of the best indexes of information on the Internet are compiled and maintained by librarians, either paid or on a volunteer basis — such as the Librarians’ Index to the Internet (http://www.lii.org) and Infomine (infomine.ucr.edu).”

“These sites take some of the things that librarians have always used to determine whether to buy a book and apply that to links.”

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