Here is an interesting and somewhat incendiary article from Sunday's Oregonian on Philanthropy and naming buildings:
The John Q. Public Memorial Anything
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
20 cities salary information!
The Business Journals published salary information based on survey for 20 cities in the USA including Portland and Seattle.
This information can be found here:
What 20 Top Jobs Pay in 75 Metros
Enjoy
This information can be found here:
What 20 Top Jobs Pay in 75 Metros
Enjoy
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Google Search Basics
Happy New Year!
I'm always surprised by what I don't know, and what other people don't know.
While training a beginning researcher (of the "Congratulations you are now a researcher" variety) I discovered that she didn't know search basics, like how to create an exact phrase search in Google, so I dug up the Google Basic Search Help Page
From the basic search page, I learned that Google is now automatically stemming searches! This is not particularly good for researchers, as it also stems on names now.
UPDATE TO ADD: After a little more research I found that putting a word in quotes or adding a + before a word will turn off stemming for a particular word.
From the Google Advanced Search Help Page I found out about the Google Synonym Search. If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of your search term.
For example I searched for "Bill Gates" ~philanthropy and Google also substituted the word charity, foundation, and community for philanthropy.
It isn't perfect, but it may make general internet searching a little quicker.
I'm always surprised by what I don't know, and what other people don't know.
While training a beginning researcher (of the "Congratulations you are now a researcher" variety) I discovered that she didn't know search basics, like how to create an exact phrase search in Google, so I dug up the Google Basic Search Help Page
From the basic search page, I learned that Google is now automatically stemming searches! This is not particularly good for researchers, as it also stems on names now.
UPDATE TO ADD: After a little more research I found that putting a word in quotes or adding a + before a word will turn off stemming for a particular word.
From the Google Advanced Search Help Page I found out about the Google Synonym Search. If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of your search term.
For example I searched for "Bill Gates" ~philanthropy and Google also substituted the word charity, foundation, and community for philanthropy.
It isn't perfect, but it may make general internet searching a little quicker.
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