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Google’s cache of the indexable Internet may have its controversies with copyright lawyers, but when it comes to searching sites when their servers are experiencing problems, it’s the next best thing.
Have you ever imagined looking up some topic on Wikipedia while you’re working on the Linux command line? What about displaying the results in a different language? Yes, it’s possible. In fact, it’s ...
Wikipedia is working hard on making its knowledge more accessible and it has just gone live with a few new changes to make the encyclopedia better to use. It now offers autocomplete when you’re ...
Wikipedia, one of the world’s top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade. The Wikimedia Foundation, which ...
While artificial intelligence may make the student research paper obsolete, if today a student does their own research and writing, it’s quite possible they will use Google to search their topic, and ...
Remember what life was like before the internet was widespread? What would you do if you wanted to figure out who was the head coach of the 1986 Detroit Pistons or learn about the migration habits of ...
Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...