Google Science Communication Fellows Workshop: Search/Research as a Literate Skill

Google Science Communication Fellows Workshop
Search/Research as a Literacy Skill
Presented by Daniel Russell, User Experience Researcher, Google
June 13, 2011

About the Speaker
Daniel Russell is a research scientist at Google where he works in the area of search quality, with a focus on understanding what makes Google users happy in their use of web search. As an individual contributor, Dan is best known for his studies of sense-making behavior in people dealing with tasks that require understanding large amounts of information.

Dan has also been an adjunct lecturer in computer science at University of Santa Clara and at Stanford University.Dr. Russell received his B.S. in Information and Computer Science from U.C. Irvine, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rochester (1983).

• Category

  Science & Technology

[sicklesickle]

The problem with google is that they have all these miscellaneous projects, some of which are amazing and some which may be useless. But we have to somehow know that they exist and apply them, because google advertises everybody else's products but not their own. Why not integrate all of the G-Things into the main Google search, so we don't ever have to go to a separate URL? It should apply them automatically, based on relevance and preference. Get what I'm saying?

[nicolakimjones]

: read the encyclopedia!



[Utharas]

This got me thinking. Say I wanted to learn anything and everything to help me grow in my understanding of all things. What would be the best way of networking the information in a way that all the poor information is filtered out, all the best information is included.

[Jessica Zhang]

The first five minutes is a little slow.  The content gets more interesting as the speech goes on.