In this paper, we introduce the Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets is part of a free, Webbased software office suite offered by Google within its Google Docs service. It allows users to create and edit spreadsheets online, while collaborating with other users in realtime. Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, whose content and data is availabl...

Purpose – To describe a small-scale quantitative evaluation of the scholarly information search engine, Google Scholar. Design/methodology/approach – Google Scholar’s ability to retrieve scholarly information was compared to that of three popular search engines: Ask.com, Google and Yahoo! Test queries were presented to all four search engines and the following measures were used to compare them...

Since Google Trends and Google Insights for Search were launched, they provide a daily insight into what the world is searching for on Google, by showing the relative volume of search traffic in Google for any search query. An understanding of web search trends can be useful for advertisers, marketers, economists, scholars, and anyone else interested in knowing more about their world and what's...

KENNEALLY: The future, said the science fiction author William Gibson, is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed. And Gibson also said that the problem with the future is you can’t Google it. Now, we’ve all seen the Google Glass, but you can’t Google the future, although I did try to do that this morning. On my Google, the first result page was the bio for a rapper named Future. (laught...

Technology has effectively bridged the physical distance to transform learning experience. A recent entrant into the segment is Google + Hangout. It is a free service from Google which facilitates group video interaction over the internet. The advanced technology which focuses on ‘face to face’ interaction for multiple users, distinguishes Google + hangout from other contemporary services. Base...

Allison Woodruff Google 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043 [email protected] Vasyl Pihur Google 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043 [email protected] Sunny Consolvo Google 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043 [email protected] Lauren Schmidt Google 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043 [email protected] Laura Brandimarte Carnegie Mellon University 5...

INTRODUCTION Last April 1, Google launched Google Scholar Metrics, a new tool that provides impact metrics for scientific journals, measured from citation counts. The research community was caught on guard and many wondered whether it was a real product or just a joke (April 1 is Fools' Day). However, to the delight of bibliometricians and uneasiness of some major scientific publishers, the Goo...

In this paper, we present Active Cloud DB, an open source Softwareas-a-Service (SaaS) application that allows for RESTful access to cloud-based distributed datastore technologies that implement the Google Datastore API. We implement Active Cloud DB as a Google App Engine application that we employ to expose the Google App Engine Datastore API to developers – for use with any language and framew...

The Federal Trade Commission has today completed a wide-ranging investigation of alleged anticompetitive conduct by Google Inc. (“Google”). We issue this Statement to explain the Commission’s unanimous decision to close the portion of its investigation relating to allegations that Google unfairly preferences its own content on the Google search results page and selectively demotes its competito...

PURPOSE To determine which resources residents use at the point-of-care (POC) for decision making, the drivers for selection of these resources, and how residents use Google/Google Scholar to answer clinical questions at the POC. METHOD In January 2012, 299 residents from three internal medicine residencies were sent an electronic survey regarding resources used for POC decision making. Resou...