1) I am currently more than a little obsessed with Men's Figure Skating. I hold the Olympics fully responsible for this obsession. Since watching Evan Lysacek skate his heart out an win gold, I've been trying to find his free skate at the 2006 Olympics in Torino - with no sucess. I thought I'd put Truveo and Blinkx to the test and see if either site pulled up a link to that skate. No luck. Truveo and Blinkx both came up with tons of video links for the 2010 Olympics, but nothing further back. Since that search failed, I did a search for something I know for a fact is on the web - Johnny Weir's skate to Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." (I really like that program. Can you tell?) A search on Truveo and on Blinkx both turned up results linking back to YouTube, the site I already knew had the video.
I can see how Blinkx and Truveo might sometimes be helpful, but I don't see myself using either all that often. The video I really want didn't show up and the one I already know about, well, I could just find searching YouTube. No point using a secondary search engine when most of what I find is on YouTube.
2) I knew HCPL had a YouTube channel, but I'd never been to it before. There is actually quite a bit of video on it, more than I would have expected. My favorite video series was uploaded by Freeman. It gives instructions on buying a print card, printing a document, and adding more money to a print card. Brilliant! The videos were clear and easy to understand, with explicit text instructions and arrows pointing to the relevant areas on pictures of the print card machine, etc. In my opinion, it would be fantastic if all HCPL desktops had a link to that video series (or one tailored to each specific branch, if there are differences). It might (maybe, hopefully, probably not but cross your fingers!) cut down on the number of printing questions.
Finally, because I think everyone should see this video at least once in their life (more than once is preferable), here's Johnny Weir skating to "Poker Face." He's fabulous!
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