Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Ask with a capital A is a verb, too
Back in graduate school, alternate search engines were de rigueur. While the verb “google” had made it solidly into the popular parlance, the DLIS kids were “VivĂsimo-ing,” “Teoma-ing,” and “Asking Jeeves” - anything but googling (Jeeves often helped with those imaginary reference questions from middle schoolers…). Google.com was building a monopoly over information navigation, and […]