In Google We Trust: Users' Decisions on Rank, Position, and Relevance
"An eye tracking experiment revealed that college student users have substantial trust in Google's ability to rank results by their true relevance to the query. When the participants selected a link to follow from Google's result pages, their decisions were strongly biased towards links higher in position even if the abstracts themselves were less relevant. While the participants reacted to artificially reduced retrieval quality by greater scrutiny, they failed to achieve the same success rate. This demonstrated trust in Google has implications for the search engine's tremendous potential influence on culture, society, and user traffic on the Web."
Why Johnny Can't Search - a Response
In response to http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/st_thompson_searchresults
Papers presented at LILAC 2011 on the LILAC website
Classroom Technologies: iPads in Schools
Advantages and disadvantages
Posted from Diigo. The rest of teacher-librarians group favorite links are here.
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