Yep – just confirmed it. In Google, using a “|” equals using OR.

Example:

Libraries | technology – finds 16,200,000 hits

Libraries OR technology – ALSO finds 16,200,000 hits

Just one of those “hmmm” discoveries.

I just read about this on Research Buzz – Google is now indexing magazine articles and book exerpts! How cool is that?

Here’s how to search for them:

To find magazine articles, enter this:

libraries site:google.com inurl:articleid

To find book exerpts, enter this:

libraries site:google.com inurl:isbn

And to find both, do this:

libraries site:google.com inurl:isbn | inurl:articleid

My guess is the “|” must be similar to an OR search – never seen that one before. So, I’ll play around with it and try to figure it out a little.

Enjoy!

In the latest InfoWorld trade mag, there was an article on federated technology from a corporate point of view. Most of the article was boring, but there was one eye-opener, for me anyway: bank ATM machines are basically a federated system… wow! never thought of that before.

Four things yahoo can do that google can’t
Very cool stuff. How do they figure this stuff out? Sheesh.