One immediate and obvious difference between an internet search engine and a library database is the “so called” amount of results. When I searched “e-book academic usage” on Google 210,000,000 hits came up, much too many for me to ever sift through. A search on ACM Digital Library resulted in 150 results. Though these results were more manageable after skimming through them I found that not many pertained to what I intended on researching, about less than a handful did. Many of the results came up because my search had the term “e-book” in it, so the results were actual e-books and not articles on e-books. My Google search on the other hand gave me many more relevant results.
