{"id":29594,"date":"2015-04-12T13:07:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29594"},"modified":"2015-04-12T13:07:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T17:07:36","slug":"search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/04\/search-engine.html","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29595\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/04\/Librarian-to-Search-Engine-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"Librarian to Search Engine\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>This cartoon came to my attention via <a href=\"http:\/\/centeredlibrarian.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/librarian-to-search-engine-cartoon.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Centered Librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, there is nothing wrong with updating names. A \u2018computer\u2019 used to mean a\u00a0<em>person<\/em> who did calculations for a living.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a search engine (in the current sense of the term) is something radically different from a librarian. A search engine provides automated results. A librarian is a person that can help you identify the most relevant results from such a search for precisely what you need.<\/p>\n<p>Google is a bit like the library catalogue, albeit for a much larger, fuller, and less well-organized library. It might take you to what you need. But when it doesn\u2019t \u2013 and that will happen often \u2013 a librarian can help.<\/p>\n<p>Of related interest, Peter Kirby has crafted a <a href=\"http:\/\/peterkirby.com\/the-biblical-criticism-search-engine.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Biblical criticism search engine<\/a>\u00a0and an <a href=\"http:\/\/peterkirby.com\/full-archives-early-writings-search.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Early Writings search<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/helpful-website-on-english-translations.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peter Head highlighted the Internet Bible Catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cartoon came to my attention via Centered Librarian. On the one hand, there is nothing wrong with updating names. 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