[Libs-Or] Request for help with Google weirdness

[Miriam Rigby]

You'll also find that they've just recently eliminated their + feature 
that allowed you to prioritize words in your search... someone gave them 
the idea that people don't actually know what they're searching for.

- Miriam

Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Librarian

Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnic Studies,&  Clark Honors College
141, Knight Library
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403

(541) 346-7202
rigby at uoregon.edu




On 10/28/2011 12:00 PM, libs-or-request at listsmart.osl.state.or.us wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:41:33 -0700
> From: Meredith Farkas<mfarkas at pdx.edu>
> To: Hope Leman<hleman at samhealth.org>
> Cc:"libs-or at listsmart.osl.state.or.us"
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> It's a silly place for them to put it, but you can access the advanced
> search page by clicking on the little gear icon in the top-right of the
> page. In Google Scholar, Scholar Preferences has moved there as well, which
> had me stymied for a few minutes in the first instruction session I taught
> since the change.
>
> Meredith
>
> -- Meredith Gorran Farkas Assistant Professor Head of Instructional 
> Services Portland State University Library mfarkas at pdx.edu 
> (503)725-4577 http://library.pdx.edu/ On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:24 
> AM, Hope Leman <hleman at samhealth.org> wrote:
>> >  Hi, all. Where are the advanced features of Google? I sat down last night
>> >  at a desktop at my parents house and the home page of Google now seems to
>> >  lack the advanced search page. I tried the homepage on my netbook just now
>> >  and also don't see the advanced search link. I tweeted last hoping for
>> >  answers and got only one response about using the "classic mode." So where
>> >  do I find that?
>> >
>> >  I really, really need to be able to use the advanced feature of Google so
>> >  any help would be much appreciated. Is anyone else seeing this barebones
>> >  Google homepage or have any of you heard anything about this?
>> >
>> >  Thank you for your help.
>> >
>> >  Hope Leman, MLIS
>> >  Research Information Technologist
>> >  Center for Health Research and Quality
>> >  Samaritan Health Services
>> >  815 NW 9th Street
>> >  Corvallis, OR 97330
>> >  (541) 768-5712