Google and Beyond:
Researching on the
Web
Tom Casserly
Linda Plunket
April 10, 2008
What is Google?
It is a very profitable for-profit
company
With An Immodest Mission
“Google’s mission is to organize the
world’s information and make it
universally accessible and useful.”
World Domination?
“6. You can make money without doing evil.”
http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html
And how will they do this?
And where does that put
you?
Anything hidden?
How about BU’s students?
And anyway, just how does all
that good stuff in Google get
there? Let’s take a look-
How’s it going to get there
without a librarian?
“a diligent librarian and the
power of technology, their
long-silent voices could
speak directly…”
Trial by Fire
David von Drehle
Smithsonian Magazine, August 2006