Google for remote tech / reference support

A free alternative: remote assistance via Google Hangouts’ Remote Desktop
@Distant Librarian

How are discovery systems similar to Google? How are they different?

How the Summon discovery system differs from Google/Google Scholar @MusingsAboutLibrarianship

…stepping away from Google

A plan B from ed tech professional Miguel Guhlin. Read on @AroundtheCorner

Google and the future of search

Searching the internet may be about to change.

This year, Google will roll out what it calls its Knowledge Graph, the closest any system has yet come to creating … “the semantic web,” the version that could itself provide answers, not links to answers. (For the crux of the subject, jump down pass Amit Singhal photo.) @Guardian Read more …

Library Now! Google Now technology applied to libraries?

Using Google Now – whose promise is to get you “just the right information at just the right time” – as a springboard for discussion, Tay explores ways libraries might be and to some extent already are anticipating and targeting user information needs and offering recommendations at points of need. @Musings about Librarianship Read more …