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The day a librarian showed me how to search without Google
I was at the public library in Des Moines about 5 years ago, looking up some old newspaper articles. This older librarian, must have been in her 70s, came over and asked what I was doing. I told her I was just typing keywords into the library's website. She laughed a little and then sat down at the computer next to me. She pulled up this thing called a boolean search guide and showed me how to use AND, OR, and quotation marks properly. I had been using Google my whole life just typing full sentences into the search bar like it was a person. After she showed me that, I started getting way better results. I still do it today for my job and for finding old forum posts. Has anyone else had a random person teach them a trick that changed how they do a basic thing? I wish I remembered her name.
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angela_park17d ago
Figured out how to use quotation marks in searches last year and felt like I'd been writing my grocery lists in hieroglyphics before that... Made me realize how many times I'd been asking Google dumb questions like "where is that one movie with the guy.
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