The Googlization of Everything

From Cathy Davidson:

Google now offers the option of creating custom search engines, which are google searches of multiple sites which you specify. John Unsworth, Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, has created one for digital humanities, seeding it with the sites listed in centernet, plus a few others. The custom search is embedded in the nav bar at www.digitalhumanities.org now, and you can embed it anywhere else you'd like, using this code:

John has asked HASTAC'ers to pass it on, let people know this exists, and try it out yourself. He suggests that the best way to demonstrate its usefulness is to search for some very general term, like "jobs" or "grants" or "travel" and see the digital-humanities-specific results that come back.

Thanks, John! This is a marvelous contribution to digital humanism.