Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Search Engine Interfaces - Donny Smith, Kairos
Even though Internet search engines occupy a huge space in students' lives, there seems to be little examination of the effect of search engines on students. The interfaces of popular search engine such as Yahoo and Google simulate annotated bibliographies, a very abstract form. Information does not have to be presented as title lists. This review will present a few of the search interfaces currently available and briefly analyze the rhetorical limitations of input and output displays.

 



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