Librarian-Powered Search Engine

The Wired Campus blog covers the story of a new project in development called Reference Extract which will be a Web search engine powered by the expertise of librarians. The project is being developed by OCLC, Syracuse University, and University of Washington.

“Have you ever wished for a personal reference librarian, an information guru to point you to the most reliable sites whenever you search the Web? A new search-engine project aims to simulate something like that. The trick? Weighting search results so that librarians’ picks rise to the top.”

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One Response to “Librarian-Powered Search Engine”

  1. annebd Says:
    November 14th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    I’ll be on the lookout for this one. Here’s hoping that “librarians” won’t disappoint me :) RefEx is a good addition to my list of favorite new search engines like Find.com

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