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Guide of the Week: Guide Search Engine

This week, instead of highlighting a specific guide, I’d like to highlight the fact that the ALA GODORT Handout Exchange Wiki now has a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) that covers 611 sites linked to from the Handout Exchange.

You can find the CSE at the bone crunchingly long URL of:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004167096080728781323%3Aglzqvfjgqky.

If I were you, I’d just bookmark it now. There is also a link to the CSE from the front page of the guide.

It’s not perfect because Google itself is not perfect, but it can be a good way to do cross disciplinary searches of guides or to find professionally selected information on countries. Here are some searches for you to try by clicking:

Try some searches of your own. Give us some feedback in comments.

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