Making information easy at the Google Co-op

The BBC today has a background article on the history of the internet and the debt we all owe Tim Berners-Lee.  Journalist Mark Ward says of internet technology:

"Every surge of interest in the web has been driven by the appearance of tools that make this expression, or a new type of it such as blogging, far easier than before."

He is of course dead right.  One technology I have been looking at closely in the last week is Google Co-op the latest beta from the search engine giants.  Google ranks as a company that has made internet usage easier.  Co-op makes finding good information easier, so far a bane of the internet, and not only that, it harnesses the skills of information literate experts and the co-operative environment created by the likes of Wikipedia and blogging.

No matter what your opinion of Google is, it cannot be denied that they do look for ways to make access to information easier. Google Co-op enables users to create a specialised search area on a topic they are a leading expert in.  As a result information professionals  must get involved and IWR would like to hear from British info pros rolling their sleeves up to co-operate.