Google Con:
"Harvard faculty and librarians often warn students about the potential risks of using Google for academic research. After all, Web sites are often unstable, unscholarly, and, generally, a poor substitute for library collections or the subscription electronic resources available through E-Research.
Google Pro:
Nevertheless, there are a growing number of legitimate research guides, full-text collections, and other scholarly tools on the free Web worth exploring. The challenge, with hundreds of millions of indexed sites, is finding the right ones. Fortunately, there are a number of search techniques that researchers can use to refine their Google search results. "
To learn some of these techniques visit:
"A Scholarly Guide to Google.",