Using crowdsourced librarians to outsmart Google

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"The Reference Extract project hopes to turn all of this credibility research into something practical. The team consists of professors like Lankes and the OCLC, an academic technology organization that counts more than 60,000 (!) libraries among its members. The initial work is funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Their first goal is certainly ambitious: use the web sites that librarians suggest most often as the basis of a more credible search engine that can return reliable results."

From ars technica:

"The Reference Extract project hopes to turn all of this credibility research into something practical. The team consists of professors like Lankes and the OCLC, an academic technology organization that counts more than 60,000 (!) libraries among its members. The initial work is funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Their first goal is certainly ambitious: use the web sites that librarians suggest most often as the basis of a more credible search engine that can return reliable results."

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