at last -- the perfect word to use when explaining to students why subscription
databases are often better than just googling:
from the 3/26 ResearchBuzz Word of the Day
<http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001556.shtml >:
"SEARCHGUNK: Material found in search engine results that's irrelevant to the topic
for which you're searching. Not necessarily useless, bad, or the result of search
engine spamming -- just not relevant to what you're actually trying to find.
Ex: "Amongst all the haycart ride and bobbing for apple searchgunk I finally found
the perfect carmel apple recipe." "
Alice Yucht, lifelong Teacher-Librarian
aka *Alice in InfoLand,* somewhere in central New Jersey
Information Skills/Library Management consultant, writer, and presenter
Author: FLIP it! info-skills strategy (Linworth, 1997)
email: aliceinfo at excite.com
website: http://www.aliceinfo.org
"We may be service-oriented, but we don't have to be servants."
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