The Sentient Search Engine

Sky and Telescope Magazine – http://skytonight.com/ – 2.5 Stars

Sky and Telescope‘s site offers a lot of neat stuff for telescope and astronomy enthusiasts, including cool columns, stargazing tools, blogs, feeds, and more. One can learn how to start with this hobby and ways to get involved with the stargazing community.

The site looses ground with me as far as the layout is concerned, as its really busy. It also includes ads which always irritate. If the ads weren’t thematically related to the site I would have taken off another half star on my rating.

Give the site a look, and be patient.

I’ve decided to abandon the name “CoolQueries” for this blog. As neat and potentially marketable as that name was, I felt I wanted to go beyond talking about interesting reference questions (turns out there weren’t enough truly interesting questions to write about).

“The Life of a Sentient Search Engine” speaks to my passion for reference service while being more open to other “librarian stuff”.