Posts Tagged ‘google’

Shell script for Google search result parsing

This is the shell script I wrote to help me perform the analysis I did for Quest 5. 1. Perform a site:yoursite.edu search in Google, displaying 100 results per page. 2. Save each page (Google will only give you 10 at most) into a folder named yoursite.edu 3. Download the shell script to the directory [...]

Open Ed. Quest 5 — Searching for a Better Way (to Search)

Quest 5 “Many BYU faculty already openly share their syllabi and other course materials on personal websites, through iTunesU, and through other mechanisms … Find as many of the open educational resources being shared by BYU faculty as you can…” It seems to me that discoverability is really going to be the ultimate make-or-break hinge [...]

Accessibility Issues are No Laughing Matter

Except this one really made me laugh quite loudly.  I was trying to create a new Google account so there would be a webmaster email address for the BYU PSST research group’s website.  As I went about happily filling out information for this new account, I suddenly hit a wall when Google wanted me to [...]