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Top Ten Reasons Why You Should See The Librarian Instead of Google
10.  Too Many Results in a Google Search
1.  Not Everything is Available in Google  
8.  No quality control
9.  Very Few People Look Beyond the first page of           Google Results
7.  Can't trust Google Search - Accuracy of Information
4.  Only 1/4 of the information on the web is searched in google.

5.  Relevance Ranking - Websites optimize themselves to appear higher in results list, not because of their content
2.  No Complex Searching Capabilities
3.  Libraries are "Centers of Learning" not "warehouses of books"  
6.  Google Scholar is not always scholarly
Search for "explorers" gives 2,650,000 results (0.30 seconds) 
Do a search for "explorers".  On page 18 there is a webpage about Ponce de Leon from the University of South Florida.
Who decides what goes into Google?  Algorithms determine what appears in a search.  
Do a search for "explorers".  First website is allaboutexplorers.com
By using keywords or getting other websites to link to yours.
Johns Hopkins patient died because an Internet only search for a drug protocol was done.  Herring, M. Y. (2005). A Gaggle of Googles: Limitations and Defects of Electronic Access as Panacea. Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 10(3/4), 37-44.
Google Scholar sometimes has papers that demonstrate bias.
The "hidden internet" consists of sites like libraries that have search functions within them and video.  Archives, PDF files, and anything that requires a search box will not be searched by Google.
"Libraries were never warehouses of books. They have been and always will be centers of learning. Their central position in the world of learning makes them ideally suited to mediate between the printed and the digital modes of communication."  Robert Darton, Directory of Harvard's University Library, "The Case for Books, Past, Present and Future".   Public Affairs.  2009.
Their advanced search is hidden.